Jaroslav Šůla, The History of the North -Western Slavs in Czech Literature.

The Western – Slavic subject-matter appeared in Czech literature for the first time in 1961 thanks to Josef Miloslav Hruban. He published a two-piece short story, devoted to the Obotrites, entitled: Gottšalk. Dějepisná pověsť z  XI. Století. This subject-matter appeared also in Václav Beneš Třebízski's prose, the author of Královna Dagmar. After the World War II Eduard Štorch's Meč proti meči. Příběhy z  dob zakládání českého státu a pádu Polabských Slovanů and Josef Müldner's Na východ od Labe. Historický román z  XII. Století came out. Both appeared in 1947 and Štorch's work was also reprinted in 2001. In 1971 the compilation of 12 stories by Alexiej Pludek, Pověsti dávných časů, was published. It was dedicated to 'the Sorbian friends in Lusatia'. Sorbian inspirations in Czech poetry are visible in Jan Kollár's, Svatopluk Čech's and Jaroslav Vrchlicki's works. The only drama devoted to the issue of struggle of Western Sorbs' for freedom was Alois Jirásek. His play - Gero was shown for the first time in the National Theater in Prague on November 17, 1904..