Lenka Reinerová

Reinerová grew up in a German-speaking Jewish family, her mother a German-Bohemian from Saaz (Žatec) and her father an ironware dealer from Prague.

[2] She fled to Paris in 1939 but after the beginning of the Second World War she was arrested and then interned in the camp of Rieucros in Southern France[3].

From the summer of 1968, and throughout the period following the Warsaw Pact invasion, Im Herzen Europas continued to support the Action Programme of the Communist Party.

In 2004, she cofounded a cultural institution for German-language writing in the greater Czech region, the Prager Literaturhaus deutschsprachiger Autoren [de], with František Černý und Kurt Krolop.

[7][8] On 25 January 2008, a speech Reinerová wrote but could not longer deliver personally due to ill health was read in German parliament in the course of an hour of remembrance for the victims of the Third Reich.