Abstract
The fascinating diversity of identities and cultures in Central Europe between 1900 and the Second World War shines through in the personality of Otokar Fischer (1838-1938). Thanks to his professional activity, his political commitment and his charisma, the Germanist and writer became a formative personality within the German-Jewish-Czech culture between the two world wars.
Otokar Fischer is not only one of the most important personalities of Prague's cultural life between the turn of the century and the Second World War, but he was also an internationally renowned scientist and intellectual. His work and creation could neither be appreciated nor thoroughly examined under the communist regime.
In this volume, his personality and his work are systematically explored for the first time, with a view to the sources as well as to national and international contexts. The contributions shed light on Fischer's intellectual and linguistic biography, his international relations, his philological, literary theoretical and historical concepts and works, his poetic and translational work, and finally his (cultural) political journalism and activities.