Prager Tagebuch

In this poetic diary, literary historian Peter Becher guides us through a Prague reality deeper than the touristy façade. This sensitive...

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Peter Lange

Prag empfing uns als Verwandte

Die Familie Mann und die Tschechen

In December 1936, the Nazi state stripped Thomas Mann of his German citizenship. But this blow missed its mark – the Nobel laureate and most...

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Prague

Die Goldene Stadt

Prague is known as the Rome of the north, Kafka’s city, the city of a hundred spires. This illustrated volume, with excellent photography...

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Prague

Traumstadt an der Moldau

This little booklet is a collection of the must-see sights of Prague: the lofty Castle, the famous Charles Bridge, the Old Town Square with...

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Prague

Goldene Stadt

Prague is known as the Rome of the north, Kafka’s city, the city of a hundred spires. This illustrated volume, with excel­lent photography...

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Prague

Ein Reiseführer

informative: This compact and detailed guide is packed with interesting and precise descriptions of all the important buildings and...

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Prag

Literarische Spaziergänge durch die Goldene Stadt

This fully revised edition of Kafka specialist Hartmut Binder’s stroll through Prague remains as useful as it is entertaining. It includes...

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Mozart und Prag

Prague is the second city after Salzburg to be inseparably linked with the name of Mozart. Here in the Bohemian capital he enjoyed his...

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Franz Kafka und Prag

“Kafka was Prague and Prague was Kafka. Never was Prague so perfect, so typical of herself as she was during Kafka’s lifetime, and never...

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Severins Gang in die Finsternis

Ein Prager Gespensterroman

According to Prague-German author Paul Leppin (1878-1945), the streets of his home city “led one astray and ill fortune lurked on the...

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Wanderer, kommst du nach Prag

It would be hard to find another city in Europe so overflowing with stories, tales, and legends as the Old City of Prague. They tell of...

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Prague Tales from the Little Quarter

Jan Neruda first unveiled his Prague Tales from the Little Quarter in 1878. These stories usher the reader back to the first half of the...

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Two Prague Stories

This book is sheer past. Homeland and childhood – both of them long remote – form its background. – Today I would not have written it this...

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Prague Cafés

Exploring the coffee houses of Prague is a rewarding pastime. From the kavárna of old Prague to the jazz café of the music-loving Czechs n...

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Harald Salfellner (ed.)

The Prague Golem

Jüdische Sagen aus dem Ghetto

Prague has been one of the most significant cities in European Judaism for many centuries. Alongside notable buildings such as the Old-New...

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Franz Kafka and Prague

Ein Leben in Prag

“Franz Kafka was Prague and Prague was Franz Kafka”, Johannes Urzidil once wrote. And indeed, following the traces of Kafka’s life, your way...

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Mucha

Sein Leben in Wort und Bild

Alphonse Mucha is world famous for his seductively beautiful panneaux and posters. As a decorative artist he shaped the appearance of a...

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Harald Salfellner (ed.)

Jewish Fairytales and Legends

A Water Prince living in the Moldau, talking animals, flying demons, packs of thieves and kind-hearted folk, intermingled with frequent...

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Erzählungen aus dem Blindenleben

The stories by blind author Oskar Baum (1883-1942) collected here offer the reader a unique take on the early 20th century: Baum’s...

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Gustav Meyrink

Ein Leben im Bann der Magie

This latest work by Hartmut Binder represents nothing less than the first comprehensive biography of Gustav Meyrink to meet the needs of a...

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Alexander J. Schneller
Ada Schneller

That Jazz of Praha

Culture is big in Prague. There are huge cultural events, and smaller, more intimate occasions. Modern jazz is generally something of a...

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Prager Rhapsodie

Stroke by stroke, character by character, Paul Leppin’s prose sketches capture the image of Prague . Paul Leppin chats pensively about the...

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Alt-Prager Guckkasten

Oskar Wiener’s (b. 1873 in Prague, †1944 in Theresienstadt) Old-Prague Peep Show (1912) displayed images and figures of the city stemming...

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Innocens

One of the most beautiful German-language Prague novels, Innocens by Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906) is set on the Vyšehrad, a fortress...

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Larenopfer

Sacrifice to the Lares (1895), the collection of poems written by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) when he was only twenty years of age, is...

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Geschichten vom lieben Gott

“I believe this book contains a few kernels which may grow into trees,” Rainer Maria Rilke revealed in a letter to a friend in 1900, shortly...

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Letters to a Young Poet

At the beginning of 1903, a pupil at the military academy in Wiener-Neustadt, Franz Xaver Kappus, sends a few poems to Rainer Maria Rilke,...

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Heinrich Pleticha (ed.)

Piaristen und Gymnasiasten

Strangely, one aspect of bygone Prague life seems to have escaped researchers in their many accounts: Prague was not only a university city...

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The Golem

Once a generation a psychic epidemic sweeps through the Jewish Town with lightning speed, gripping the souls of the living for some purpose...

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Walpurgisnacht

“The demons of the past are stirring in the unworldly old aristocrats of Prague Castle, and the old men are shocked by their own misspent,...

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Minicalendar Historic Prague 2025

The new Vitalis minicalendars make an ideal souvenir at a sensational price, a colourful gift for art lovers, featuring major paintings....

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Minicalendar Golden Prague 2025

The new Vitalis minicalendars make an ideal souvenir at a sensational price, a colourful gift for art lovers, featuring major paintings....

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Minicalendar Prague City of Dreams 2025

The new Vitalis minicalendars make an ideal souvenir at a sensational price, a colourful gift for art lovers, featuring major paintings....

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Minicalendar Prague in Art 2025

The new Vitalis minicalendars make an ideal souvenir at a sensational price, a colourful gift for art lovers, featuring major paintings....

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View of Prague

View of Prague from the engraving by Ägidius Sadeler, after a drawing by Philipp van den Bosche, 1606.

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The Golden Lane

Museumsführer durch das Goldmachergäßchen

A museum guide to the Goldmakers’ Lane featuring rare images, background information and a wealth of details.

According to legend, the...

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Fips’ Birthday

Eine Geschichte aus dem Goldenen Gässchen in Prag

The Golden Lane in Prague. In the past, its charming and colourful little houses were mainly inhabited by simple and poor people. For many...

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Gestern abend im Café

Kafkas versunkene Welt der Prager Kaffeehäuser und Nachtlokale

This lavish edition sweeps the reader into the lost world of old imperial Prague: it includes over a thousand historic photographs and...

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Prague

Die Stadt der hundert Türme

Prague is known as the Rome of the North, Kafka’s city, and the City of a Hundred Spires. This illustrated guide features excellent...

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Franz Kafka

A Life in Pictures

Die vorliegende Bildbiographie dokumentiert das Lebensumfeld Franz Kafkas in 1550 historischen, großenteils farbigen Abbildungen, die auf...

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Minibook Golden Prague

The new Vitalis Minibooks are an ideal small gift at an unbeatable price, a colourful compliment in miniature format, not only useful for...

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Franz Kafka
Harald Salfellner (ed.)

There is No Pupil Far or Wide

A Kafka Reading Book for School

„Mit Kafka haben sie uns in der Schule gequält!“ – so oder so ähnlich klagen viele junge Besucher im Kafka-Häuschen auf der Prager Burg....

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