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The paper presents an analysis of the drama Die Rettungslosen (The Hopeless) by a philosopher and writer Susanne Schmida-Wöllersdorfer (1894-1981) who came from Byst?ice pod Hostýnem in Moravian Wallachia (The Czech Republic). A recently documented literary estate of the author provides an extensive and unique corpus of texts – remarkable dramas, lyric poetry, essays, and esoteric texts, in the form of manuscripts and typescripts, serving among other things as a proof of the existence of what can already be termed...

The oeuvre of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was influenced by the major tenets of Symbolism of the end of the XIX century and German Expressionism of the beginning of the XX century, which allowed the painter to express the depths of meaning of life through visual signs. The objective of our research is to determine the artistic concept of the paintings “Melancholy”, “Separation”, “The Dance of Life” by Edvard Munch as representants of his major cycle of works “The Frieze of Life”. The methodology of the resea...