Bohemia (newspaper)


Bohemia was a German newspaper published in Prague from 1828 to 1938. After the restoration of constitutional government in 1861, it emerged as the main press organ of the German liberal political current in Bohemia.

History and profile

The paper started as a supplement of the weekly Prager Zeitung from 1828 to 1835 under various names: first as Unterhaltungsblätter, in 1830 as Bohemia oder Unterhaltungsblätter für gebildete Stände, in 1832 as Bohemia ein Unterhaltungsblatt, and finally in 1918 as Deutsche Zeitung Bohemia. Famous writers for the newspaper included Franz Kafka, Egon Kisch, Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, and Johannes Urzidil.
The newspaper was printed by several companies:

Aftermath

The newspaper's archives can be found in the National Library of the Czech Republic. From 2000, a German-Czech newspaper took the name , continuing the Deutsch-Tschechische Zeitung für gute Nachbarschaft.