In Letná Park in Prague, there will be a statue in honor of the poet Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke - year 1900

Prague - A three-meter-high monument will be erected in Letenské sady in Prague 7 to commemorate the work of the poet and Prague native Rainer Maria Rilke. The project is expected to cost around two million crowns. The European Foundation of Rainer Maria Rilke has organized a public fundraising campaign for it. This was reported today by the Prague city hall, which supports the project.
    The monument will be created by academic sculptor Jan Koblasa. "Prague will become part of a network of ten cities where the poet stayed during his journey and where his busts are to be placed," said Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda. "Just as Prague influenced Kafka, it also influenced Rilke, and he masterfully captured its Jewish and German face in his early collection Obětina lárům," he added.
    Rilke is said to have been the greatest German that the Czech lands gave to the world. One of the fathers of modern literature, born in 1875, he became famous especially for his poems about human searching, suffering, and death. An elegant and refined man with a pale face and drooping mustache wrote about these themes in his native country, during his numerous travels, and in Switzerland, where he found his new home in the twilight of his life and where he also died in 1926. They also hold a firm place in his most famous works, in The Song of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke, in the poetry collections Book of Hours, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus, as well as in the partially autobiographical novel Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.