Mina Witkojc’ Darstellung ihrer Reise in die Slowakei 1925
Mina Witkojc’s Description of her Visit to Slovakia in 1925

Summary/Abstract: Mina Witkojc published travel reports in Serbski Casnik in 1925 and 1926 about her visit to Czechoslovakia. In them she propagated the idea of the common Slav ancestry of the Sorbs, Czechs and Slovaks. In this way she extended the traditional image of the “Sorbian island in a German sea” into that of a “Sorbian branch” of the Slav family of nations. She described Slovakia separately in these reports and gave an idealized picture of it in two respects. Firstly, she paid tribute to the fact that the Slovaks had freed themselves from Hungarian hegemony and had become a component part of a Slav state. Secondly, Mina Witkojc described Slovakia as a region, in which more women were “intellectual leaders” than men. Despite her enthusiasm she did not build up any long term contacts with the female authors and editors she visited, and very few of their texts appeared in Serbski Casnik.

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