[Egon Erwin Kisch and the Blazek sisters. A contribution to the history of teratology].
A century ago, on April 29th 1885, the "Raving Reporter" Egon Erwin Kisch was born in Prague. On this occasion his news-reporting about the conjoined Bohemian twins Rosa and Josefa Blazek (born 1878) is appreciated and compared respectively contrasted with the observations and papers of contemporary physicians, among them the famous neuropathologist Richard Henneberg from Berlin and the important gynaecologists Breisky and Pitha from Prague and Schauta from Vienna. Kisch's report "The conjoined sisters" was published in his book "Sensation fair" during his antifascistic exile firstly 1941 in New York in English, a year later in Mexico-City in the German language. In spite of his stunt-making style Kisch's declining opposite the capitalistic marketing and opposite the disgracing people's exhibition (in this case of the Bohemian pygopage sisters) is articulated. Kisch, the founder of the socialistic literary report, died in 1948 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
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Egon Erwin Kisch und die Geschwister Blazek. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Teratologie.