KAFKA 2024 IS A YEAR-ROUND FESTIVAL WITH EXHIBITIONS, CONCERTS, DISCUSSIONS, THEATRE, FILMS, READINGS AND LECTURES.

3 June 2024 marks the centenary of the death of the writer and Prague native Franz Kafka. He and his legacy are being commemorated in many places and at many events, in books, blogs, podcasts and even video games, making it even clearer how topical and inspiring his texts and his reflections on life and art are. Growing up in the multicultural city of Prague in German and Czech, Kafka not only experienced the cross-fertilisation and overlapping of German, Czech and Jewish cultures, but also the rise of nationalism and anti-Semitism, issues that also concern us today. And last but not least, he paid attention to a healthy lifestyle and diet in keeping with the times; it is perhaps not generally known that he was a vegetarian.

The Kafka 2024 project deliberately connects the players who will dedicate their programme to the German-speaking author born in the Bohemian metropolis of Prague, particularly in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. It will provide bilingual information on events in the individual cities, competitions and calls for entries, background information on Franz Kafka, blogs and much more. The platform, which will be launched in autumn 2023, will also be a central point for information about Franz Kafka and the context of his life and work.

The anniversary not only offers the opportunity to look at Kafka's work and life from current and new perspectives. The anniversary is also an opportunity to focus on the Czech-German cultural heritage and the mutual exchange and influence of both cultures and nations right up to the present day.

The project was initiated and coordinated by the Adalbert Stifter Association (Munich) and is being realised in cooperation with the Prague City Library / Prague - UNESCO City of Literature. Participants include the Goethe Institute Prague, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Czech Centres, the Literature Museum of the Czech Republic in Prague, the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg, the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe in Potsdam, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague, Munich City Library, Literaturhaus München, Institute for German Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, Society for Intercultural German Studies, Franz Kafka Societies in Prague and Vienna, the Czech Literature Centre, the West Bohemian Gallery in Pilsen and the Munich Adult Education Centre. Advisor and curator of some of the events is Reiner Stach, one of the leading experts on Kafka's work and life.

GMÜND, BERLIN, ČESKÉ VELENICE, COTTBUS, FELLBACH, HAMBURG, KLOSTERNEUBURG, KÖNIGSWINTER, LEIPZIG, MUNICH, PARIS, PILSEN, PRAGUE, REGENSBURG, SALZBURG, STUTTGART, WEIMAR, VIENNA, ZURICH.

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