Czech Books Lenka Reinerova - a writer who keeps the rich tradition of Prague German literature alive
There must be few writers anywhere in the world who have led quite such fascinating lives as Lenka Reinerova. Now an energetic 88-year-old with a glint in her eye and a charisma that give her the look of someone at least 15 years younger, she has lived through many of the dramas of the 20th century. Today she is settled in Prague, the city where she grew up in a middle-class Jewish family before the war. With the rise of fascism, like many of her generation, she embraced communism, in the hope of resisting the menace that was coming from Germany, and she came to know some of the extraordinary literary figures of Prague at the time, including Franz Kafka's friend, Max Brod, and the famous "roving reporter" Egon Erwin Kisch.
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