English summary: In Prague in the early 20th century, a vital scene of German speaking authors existed who deal with their feelings and memories about Prague in their texts. It is a fantastic but also obscure perspective in which they contemplated their hometown. Spending their time in cafes, theatres and cabarets with other native speakers, they had contact with artists of art nouveau, impressionists and secessionists, as well as early expressionists. Very often these artists illustrated their texts and so gave them a certain image of Prague as they understood it. Above that, the publishers also had an increasing interest for images with texts. After the first great success of Gustav Meyrink’s The Golem in 1915, they realised a boom for this kind of novel. Several publishing houses wanted to lance a second bestseller like The Golem. They tried it both with images, especially striking covers and the names of known artists like Alfred Kubin or Hugo Steiner-Prag. This triangular field of interests between authors, artists and publishers is the main focus of the investigation, but also, the European context of this special Prague atmosphere around 1900 is critically illuminated. German description: Die Prager deutschsprachige Literatur der ersten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist vor allem durch Franz Kafka beruhmt geworden. Seine literarischen Vorganger sind meist weniger bekannt. Noch unbekannter sind daruber hinaus die Illustrationen insbesondere zweier Kunstler dieser Literatur: Hugo Steiner-Prag und Richard Teschner. Vor allem Hugo Steiner-Prag hat dazu beigetragen, das Bild der phantastischen Stadt Prag, wie sie schon Grillparzer bezeichnet hat, in seinen Illustrationen zu manifestieren und zu kolportieren. Die verschiedenen Aspekte der Wort-Bild-Bezuge ausgewahlter Werke in ihrem geschichtlichen Kontext und in Bezug auf die Inszenierung eines Prager Stadtbildes stehen im Fokus der Untersuchung.
