Struktury a funkce - Výbor ze studií 1989-2009 – Haman Aleš (2012)

Professor Herta Schmidová, who until recently worked at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Potsdam, is one of the rare experts who, in her scholarly work, has paid attention not only to significant phenomena in Czech literature over an impressive range from the Renaissance to the present (Jan Amos Komenský, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Karel Čapek, Václav Havel), but has also contributed to the rehabilitation and new perspective on the legacy of the Prague Structuralist School, particularly its main representative Jan Mukařovský. Even at a time when opinions on Czech structuralism were far from clarified - especially in our country - she showed a lively interest in this method of literary research and, after the change of circumstances, organized several meetings of German and Czech researchers at the Slavic Institute in Potsdam from the early 1990s on topics that were inspiring both theoretically and historically for both sides (for example, symposia dedicated to the poetics of Jaroslav Vrchlický, the works of Mácha, the beginnings of Czech avant-garde in the 1910s, the Labyrinth of J. A. Komenský), participated in conferences both in our country and in Germany, where the topic was structuralism, and contributed to journals and publications dedicated to Czech literature,…