Opening of the Kafka Year 2024
The Goethe-Institut and the Embassies of Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland in Addis Ababa cordially invited you to the Kafka Year 2024 opening event on 22. February 2024 at 6 pm.
The writer Franz Kafka lived from 1883 to 1924 and is being commemorated worldwide throughout 2024. The celebrations in Ethiopia start with an evening at the Goethe-Institut where Andreas Kilcher will give a lecture on Who is Kafka and why is he still relevant?
Michael Shiferaw then provided insights into how Kafka was experienced and discussed in his Ethiopian reading circle, followed by Q&A and a reception.
Kafka is the great ‚unknown known': Hardly anyone doesn't know his name, but only few find access to his texts. The lecture introduces Kafka and his texts in their qualities and peculiarities using canonic examples, like the Metamorphosis. At the same time, the lecture raises the question of why Kafka's texts are so extraordinarily disturbing and at the same time touching - still today: What is it about these stories that affects us so much?
Lectures, exhibitions, book readings, film screenings and workshops will take you through the year to celebrate Franz Kafka and his literary works and drawings.
The writer Franz Kafka lived from 1883 to 1924 and is being commemorated worldwide throughout 2024. The celebrations in Ethiopia start with an evening at the Goethe-Institut where Andreas Kilcher will give a lecture on Who is Kafka and why is he still relevant?
Michael Shiferaw then provided insights into how Kafka was experienced and discussed in his Ethiopian reading circle, followed by Q&A and a reception.
Kafka is the great ‚unknown known': Hardly anyone doesn't know his name, but only few find access to his texts. The lecture introduces Kafka and his texts in their qualities and peculiarities using canonic examples, like the Metamorphosis. At the same time, the lecture raises the question of why Kafka's texts are so extraordinarily disturbing and at the same time touching - still today: What is it about these stories that affects us so much?
Lectures, exhibitions, book readings, film screenings and workshops will take you through the year to celebrate Franz Kafka and his literary works and drawings.
