Bilingualismus / Zweisprachigkeit als literarisches Phänomen in den böhmischen Ländern im „langen“ 19. Jahrhundert. Das Prolegomenon zu einem Projekt

This study – a proposal of a project – seeks to investigate, on the basis of numerous documents from the cultural milieu, the extent to which Czech-German literary bilingualism has influenced the literary, cultural, social and political life in the Czech lands of the “long” 19th century (about 1770–1914/18), with the outlook in the Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938). The analysis tries to work out the objective of the specific position of the literary bilingualism in the polylingual Lands of the Bohemian Crown and suggests its possible systematization. The paper touches also upon the question of the (possible) continuation and progression of the active literary bilingualism after the Czech and German nation-building and the national unity.