The literary scholar, cultural mediator and publicist Arnost Vilém (Ernst Wilhelm) Kraus dealt in a variety of ways with the social and societal relationships in the Bohemian countries, which were shaped by the intercultural composition of their population. As a Scandinavian and Germanist, Kraus not only resorted to the German-Czech comparison, but also expanded his perspective to include the Scandinavian perspective, which was accessible to him due to his academic training. The committed intellectual always saw his work beyond science as a cultural-political task. In the anthology edited by Helena Brezinová, Steffen Höhne and Václav Petrbok, the professional interests and journalistic activities of Kraus are for the first time comprehensively presented in a broader historical context presented and supplemented with articles on his biography and his cultural mediation work.