Short biography of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary, where he spent most of his life. From 1889 to 1893, he attended the "German Boys' School" there, followed by the so-called "Old Town German Grammar School", from which he graduated in 1901. He then studied law at the German-language branch of Charles University. After graduating, he worked in various insurance companies, which he did not enjoy very much. Kafka suffered from tuberculosis, which led to his early death on June 3, 1924.

Kafka was already preoccupied with literature in his youth, and only a fraction of his early literary attempts have survived.In his texts, Kafka often tells of absurd, confused and grotesque events.Most of his literary works were only published after his death, against his will, by his friend and executor Max Brod, who also collected and passed on Kafka's lesser-known drawings.

To mark the centenary of the death of the writer Franz Kafka, the Goethe-Institut and the embassies of Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic are dedicating numerous events to the writer in the Kafka Year 2024.