Kafka2024

Im Goethe-Institut gibt es nun einen Automaten mit Zines, selbstgestalteten Magazinen im Kleinformat. Anlässlich des 100. Todesjahres Kafkas werden drei ganz besondere Zines angeboten, die sich mit Werk und Leben des Schriftstellers auseinandersetzen. Worum es dabei geht und wie Sie sich ein kostenloses Zine abholen können, erfahren Sie hier!

Besuchen Sie im 1. Stock des Goethe-Instituts Stefanie Harjes' Wandgemälde: eine fantasievolle Hommage an Franz Kafka.

Why do we continue to find Franz Kafka so compelling 100 years after his death? Why is Kafka still considered to be so modern and contemporary? What awaits us in Kafka’s anniversary year of 2024? Reiner Stach, Kafka’s most important biographer, provides us with some answers.

Thousands of tourists come to Prague every year and the city has a lot to offer them. Including lots of Kafka kitsch. Find out in this video report what the Kafka knowledge of Prague tourists is like!

The question of whom Franz Kafka belongs to occupies many minds more persistently than is perhaps necessary.

Seine eigene Selbstverteidigung und drei Begegnungen mit dem Dichter, der sich mehr als die anderen vom Feuer dieser verfluchten Welt verbrennen ließ. Die Schriftstellerin Emine Sevgi Özdamar über Franz Kafka.

Exploring Prague in Kafka’s footsteps: where did Franz Kafka live and work, where did he spend his leisure time? A photo tour.

Most people know Franz Kafka as that brilliant author who wrote The Metamorphosis, “The Judgment” or “The Trial”. However, what many Kafka buffs don’t know: Kafka was a thoroughly physical person, Kafka was not just sporty, he was an all-out sports enthusiast.

Kafka is a writer of dark, nightmarish tales? – Perhaps, yes. But this is too superficial a view. Let us embark on a quest for the comical in Kafka.

Franz Kafka: Schriftsteller, Angestellter, Sohn, Bruder, Liebhaber, Vegetarier. Über den berühmten Prager Schriftsteller ist schon viel geschrieben worden, über den Unternehmer Franz Kafka hingegen noch nicht viel. Ein Artikel von Ulrich Fischer.
 

What do Kafka and fashion have in common? A feeling of always arriving too late. We chase after fashion and can escape it only to a limited degree. In a way, we are at its mercy. Because no matter how we dress or don’t dress, our outward appearance always says something about us.

At the beginning of the 20th century, cinema was new and sensational – Franz Kafka was fascinated by it. There are numerous mentions of what Kafka had seen at the movies.

Franz Kafka was only 40 years old in the spring of 1924 when he was admitted to a private clinic in Kierling, just outside of Vienna. The building has not changed, except for its relationship to world literature.

Franz Kafka’s complicated relationship with his sexuality has been a topic of constant speculation and analysis. We have reviewed his letters and experts’ opinions to try to clarify things.

Franz Kafka was himself a good illustrator and would surely have enjoyed these comics and graphic novels that were created by comic book artists from different parts of the world and all have one thing in common: the subject of Kafka.
 

Nicolas Mahler is a comic illustrator whose book “Komplett Kafka” (Completely Kafka) is published in Kafka’s centenary year, and it will tour as an exhibition. Ulrich Fügener spoke with Nicolas Mahler – about comics, Kafka, humour and melancholy.
 

The Czech writer died nearly a century ago, but is enjoying a renaissance on TikTok and X.

In a subsection of the University of Vienna website, all of Franz Kafka’s journals and letters are freely accessible and searchable. The person behind the website is Werner Haas, librarian at the University of Vienna. 
 

Almost everyone knows the word “Kafkaesque”. In Czech, there is a whole range of other Kafka vocabulary – such as “not enough of Kafka”.

In this interview therapist Prof. Dr. Hantel-Quitmann explains how literature can help us solve our problems, and why it is nevertheless good that Kafka did not undergo therapy at the time.

Debates in feuilletons, a pragmatic approach in schools: required reading and how is it justifie.

For a long time, we were familiar with Franz Kafka’s German only because of Max Brod’s posthumous publication of Kafka’s works. However, in Kafka’s original texts, the spoken language clearly left its mark.
 

Franz Kafka’s works are still relevant today, they are universal, full of grotesque and fascinating characters. Which of Kafka’s literary characters are you? Answer the questions in our psychological test to find out!