Ken Krimstein

In the organizer's words:

• Einstein in Kafkaland: How Einstein and Kafka created a new world
• In dialog, vernissage

Two meet in Prague... Based on diaries, letters and reports, Ken Krimstein reconstructs the untold story of the year 1911/12, in which a frustrated patent examiner meets an ambitious insurance clerk in Prague. That could be the end of the story. But the one is none other than Albert Einstein and the other none other than Franz Kafka. The DAI Heidelberg is opening an exhibition of drawings by the American artist from his new book Einstein in Kafkaland. To mark the occasion, Ken Krimstein discusses Einstein's significance for science and society and the visual communication of complex theories with Markus Pössel, astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.

Ken Krimstein's cartoons appear in the New Yorker, Punch and the Wall Street Journal. His graphic novel The Three Lives of Hannah Arendt (2018) became a bestseller in Germany and has been translated into nine languages. Ken Krimstein lives in New York. In 2025 he is a Mercedes-Benz Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

Language: English

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