Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:16:13 +0200https://english.radio.cz/franz-fuhmann-and-sudetenland-dreaming-8171867© 2026 Radio Prague International Franz Fühmann (1922-1984) was one of East Germany’s most widely read writers. He is also one of few that have stood the test of time. He grew up in Czechoslovakia in Rokytnice nad Jizerou, a small town in the mountains close to what was then the border between Czechoslovakia and Germany. This provided the setting for several of his stories, drawing from his pre-war memories of the Sudetenland. They form part of his 1962 collection The Jew Car which is now available in English, published by Seagull Books and translated by Isabel Cole. David Vaughan takes a closer look at one of the stories, The Defence of the Reichenberg Gymnasium, set as Hitler was poised to annex the Sudetenland. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/fuhmann_franz.jpg?timestamp=1590481229 https://english.radio.cz/franz-fuhmann-and-sudetenland-dreaming-8171867 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9