The Prager Tagblatt was a German language

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 newspaper

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 published in Prague

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 from 1876 to 1939. It was considered to be the most influential liberal-democratic German newspaper in Bohemia

Bohemia

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. It stopped publication after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Prager Zeitung

Prager Zeitung

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 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

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, Egon Erwin Kisch

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, Alfred Polgar

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, Alexander Roda Roda

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, Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth

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, Johannes Urzidil

Johannes Urzidil

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, Sándor Márai

Sándor Márai

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  and Friedrich Torberg

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.

Other important contributors were: Hans Bauer

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, Alfred Döblin

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, Martin Feuchtwanger, Egon Friedell

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, Stefan Großmann, Arnold Hahn, Arnold Höllriegel, Elisabeth Janstein, Siegfried Jacobsohn

Siegfried Jacobsohn

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, Franz Kafka

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, František R. Kraus

František R. Kraus

František R. Kraus was a Czechoslovak Jewish anti-fascist writer, journalist and editor.He wrote for the famous Prager Tagblatt, Freie Presse, and others, and was an editor in the Czechoslovak Radio, founder of its Shortwave section and speaker for the Foreign section in Czech, German, French and...

, Theodor Lessing

Theodor Lessing

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, Franz Molnar, Hans Natonek, Leo Perutz

Leo Perutz

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, Heinrich Rauchberg, Walther Rode,
Alice Rühle-Gerstel, Gisela Selden-Goth and Hans Siemsen.