Bohemia (newspaper)

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Bohemia was a German newspaper published in Prague from 1828 to 1938.{{Cite book|first1=Michael|last1=Borovička|first2=Jiří|last2=Kaše|first3=Jan P.|last3=Kučera|title=Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české|edition=12|location=Prague|publisher=Paseka|year=2012|language=cs|isbn=978-80-7432-181-8|page=568}} After the restoration of constitutional government in 1861, it emerged as the main press organ of the German liberal political current (the so-called Constitutional Party) in Bohemia.{{Cite book|title=Politické strany|location=Brno|publisher=Doplněk|year=2005|language=cs|isbn=80-7239-178-X|page=468}}

History and profile

The paper started as a supplement of the weekly Prager Zeitung from 1828 to 1835 under various names: first as {{Lang|de|Unterhaltungsblätter}}, in 1830 as {{Lang|de|Bohemia oder Unterhaltungsblätter für gebildete Stände}}, in 1832 as {{Lang|de|Bohemia ein Unterhaltungsblatt}}, and finally in 1918 as {{Lang|de|Deutsche Zeitung Bohemia}} (German newspaper Bohemia). Famous writers for the newspaper included Franz Kafka, Egon Kisch, Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, and Johannes Urzidil.

The newspaper was printed by several companies:

  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Gottlieb Haase|de}} & Sons (1828–1872)
  • Bohemia Aktiengesellschaft (1872–1877)
  • Frantisek Klutsack (1878)
  • Andreas Haase (1879–1919)
  • Alfred Korn (1919–1920)
  • Verlag Deutsche Zeitung-Aktiengesellschaft (1920–1933)
  • Rota-Aktiengesellschaft für Zeitung- und Buchdruck (1933–1938)

=Aftermath=

The newspaper's archives can be found in the National Library of the Czech Republic.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} From 2000, a German-Czech newspaper (Czech: {{Lang|cs|Česko-Německé noviny Bohemia}}) took the name {{Interlanguage link multi|Bohemia (2000 newspaper)|de|3=Bohemia (Zeitung)|lt=Bohemia}}, continuing the {{Lang|de|Deutsch-Tschechische Zeitung für gute Nachbarschaft}} (German-Czech newspaper of good neighbourhood).{{Citation needed|date=February 2015}}

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