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Ota Filip was a German writer with Czech roots. He was born in Ostrava in 1930, and he died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2018. He grew up in Czechoslovakia but was forcibly expatriated in 1974 after repeated problems with the communist regime, and he settled in the Federal Republic of Germany. There he worked as a freelance writer and political journalist. With his novel 'Café Slavia' (1985) he made his debut in world literature. Drawing on the theoretical approaches associated with the "spatial turn" (Soja 1991, Bachmann-Medick 2009) and other spatial-theoretical approaches, this paper seeks to examine how Filip's novel 'Café Slavia' (1985) is constructed, which literary spaces are constituted, how they change and which functions they perform.