Români, germani și cehi la Karlsbad
Romanians, Germans and Czechs in Karlsbad

Summary/Abstract: Beginning with the end of the 19th century and until the 1930, many Romanians visited Karlsbad, the famous spa (nowadays Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic) as tourists of/and patients: politicians, members of the Royal Family, aristocrats, journalists, artists, writers, members of the bourgeoisie. The Romanians were paying attention not only to the spa, landscape and monuments, but also to the society and to the everyday life. They also pay attention to politics and ethnic diversity of the Sudetenland, with its dominant German population, which was competing with the Czechs and sometimes showed signs of disliking the foreign visitors of Karlsbad. On the other hand, the Romanian visitors (the main newspapers from Romania too) noticed the political tensions in the 1930s as a result of the aggressive policy led by Adolf Hitler together with the political leaders of the Sudeten Germans towards Czechoslovakia. At the end of the decade, this pressure will lead to the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia (the Protektorat) and to the proclamation of independence of Slovakia. Although they came to Karlsbad for the spa, the Romanians marked those political issues in their memoires, as notes and articles in their newspapers. The paper is a chapter of a larger research project which deals with the Romanians who visited the spa in Karlsbad during the aforementioned period.

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