Hans Winterberg, born in Prague in 1901, belonged to the assimilated Jewish bourgeoisie of Prague, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918. Until 1918, Prague was part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, a cultural metropolis in which German was spoken until the middle of the 19th century. The Prague writers Kafka, Rilke and Werfel published in German. And Winterberg, who lived just a few meters from the Café Arco, the meeting place of Prague's literary avant-garde, was – primaril...