Kafkas Orte in Berlin - Lesung mit Michael Bienert

Berlin was a place of longing for the Prague writer and insurance clerk Franz Kafka. Ever since his first visit in December 1910, he dreamed of moving to the metropolis on the Spree. Berlin promised an immersion in a modern lifestyle, a connection to the literary avant-garde, a release from the ties of origin, family and breadwinning profession. "For me, Berlin really hangs over Prague like the sky over the earth," Kafka wrote to his fiancée Felice Bauer. The professional young woman, who worked in the office of a Berlin record company, was the ideal projection screen for Kafka's longing for modern Berlin. The marriage project failed. But with his last girlfriend Dora Diamant, Kafka, who was suffering from lung disease, spent an adventurous and happy six months in Steglitz and Zehlendorf in the winter of 1923/24.

Michael Bienert vividly traces the topography of Kafka's real and imaginary Berlin, focusing on places that are still worth visiting today. The occasion is the publication of the 2nd edition of the "Frankfurter Buntbuch" on the subject, a publication of the Kleist Museum in Frankfurt/Oder and the Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg.

Venue: Exhibition room "Das Romanische Café" in the Europa-Center, Tauentzienstraße 9-12, 10789 Berlin

Admission: Free admission

Tickets: https://romanisches-cafe.berlin/event/kafkas-orte-in-berlin/