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The ''Prager Tagblatt'' was a
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published in
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from 1876 to 1939. Considered to be the most influential
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German newspaper in
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, it stopped publication after the
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. The ''
Prager Zeitung The ''Prager Zeitung'' was a German newspaper in the Czech Republic issued weekly in Prague; it now publishes online only. History and profile ''Prager Zeitung'' was founded in 1991. It considers itself as a successor of the ''Prager Tagblatt'' ...
'', a German weekly published in Prague since 1991, claims to continue the traditions of the ''Prager Tagblatt''. Among the most important contributors to the newspaper were:
Max Brod Max Brod ( he, מקס ברוד; 27 May 1884 – 20 December 1968) was a German-speaking Bohemian, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is best remembered as the friend and biog ...
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Egon Erwin Kisch Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885 – 31 March 1948) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He styled himself ''Der Rasende Reporter'' (The Raging Reporter) for his countless travels to the far corners of the g ...
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Alfred Polgar Alfred Polgar (originally: Alfred Polak) 17 October 1873, Vienna – 24 April 1955, Zurich) was an Austrian-born columnist, theater critic, writer and occasionally translator. All in all, he was one of the most important protagonists of the Wie ...
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Alexander Roda Roda Alexander Friedrich Ladislaus Roda Roda (13 April 1872 – 20 August 1945) was an Austrian writer and satirist. Biography Roda Roda was born as Šandor Friedrich Rosenfeld in Drnowitz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Drnovice, Czech Republi ...
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Joseph Roth Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga ''Radetzky March'' (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life ''Job'' ( ...
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Johannes Urzidil Johannes Urzidil (3 February 1896 in Prague – 2 November 1970 in Rome) was a German-Bohemian writer, poet and historian. His father was a Sudeten Germans, German Bohemian and his mother was Jews, Jewish. Life Urzidil was educated in Prague, stu ...
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Sándor Márai (; Archaic English name: Alexander Márai; 11 April 1900 – 21 February 1989) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and journalist. Biography Márai was born on 11 April 1900 in the city of Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia). Through his fat ...
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Friedrich Torberg Friedrich Torberg (16 September 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 November 1979, Vienna) is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer. Biography He worked as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague until 1938, when his Jewish he ...
. Other important contributors were: Hans Bauer,
Benjamin M. Bloch Benjamin Marcus Bloch ( he, בנימין מרכוס בלוך, (April 1, 1900 – April 26, 1959
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Alfred Döblin Bruno Alfred Döblin (; 10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel '' Berlin Alexanderplatz'' (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of ...
, Martin Feuchtwanger,
Egon Friedell Egon Friedell (born ''Egon Friedmann''; 21 January 1878, in Vienna – 16 March 1938, in Vienna) was a prominent Austrian cultural historian, playwright, actor and Kabarett performer, journalist and theatre critic. Friedell has been described as ...
, Stefan Großmann, Arnold Hahn, Arnold Höllriegel, Elisabeth Janstein,
Siegfried Jacobsohn Siegfried Jacobsohn (28 January 1881 – 3 December 1926) was a German writer and influential theatre critic. Life Born in Berlin into a Jewish family, Jacobsohn decided at the age of 15 to become a theatre critic. In October 1897 he left ...
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Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...
, František R. Kraus,
Theodor Lessing Karl Theodor Richard Lessing (8 February 1872, Hanover – 31 August 1933, Marienbad) was a German Jewish philosopher. He is known for opposing the rise of Hindenburg as president of the Weimar Republic and for his classic on Jewish self-hatre ...
, Franz Molnar,
Hans Natonek Hans Natonek (28 October 1892 – 23 October 1963Natonek, Hans.' In Renate Heuer (Editor): ''Lexikon deutsch-jüdischer Autoren'', Volume 17, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 262. Retrieved from Google Books, on 4 December 2013.), pen name N. O ...
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Leo Perutz Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882, Prague – 25 August 1957, Bad Ischl) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague (now capital of the Czech Republic) and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lived in Vienn ...
, Heinrich Rauchberg, Walther Rode,
Alice Rühle-Gerstel Alice Rühle-Gerstel (24 March 1894 – 24 June 1943) was a German-Jewish writer, feminist, and psychologist. Biography Alice Gerstel attended a girls' boarding school in Dresden, then the lyceum and the German-language teacher-training college ...
, Gisela Selden-Goth, and Hans Siemsen.


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