Franz Kafka

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Náměstí Franze Kafky 24/3
Prague
11000 Praha
Czechia

Früherer Straßenname
Staroměstské náměstí Nr. 2
Koordinate
50.087923455082, 14.419287615066

Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. His birthplace was located on the corner of the Great Ring (Staroměstské náměstí No. 2), near the Teyn Church in Prague's Old Town.

However, this original building was destroyed by fire in 1897. The current house on this site is a reconstructed building known as "Kafka's birthplace". Today, it houses a small exhibition about Kafka and his life.

Franz Kafka came from a German-speaking, Jewish, middle-class family. His father, Hermann Kafka, was a wealthy merchant whose dominant personality strongly influenced his son's life and writing.

Kafka published only a few works during his lifetime. He suffered from tuberculosis, which is why he took early retirement in 1922. He died in 1924 at the age of just 40 in a sanatorium near Vienna.

The world owes his literary legacy above all to his close friend Max Brod, who ignored Kafka's wish to destroy all manuscripts after his death and published many works posthumously (1925. „The Trial;“, 1926: „The Castleß“). This made Kafka one of the most important authors of modernism. His works are regarded as an expression of existential fear, alienated bureaucracy and the absurdity of human existence - the term "Kafkaesque" became synonymous with these experiences.

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Birth in Prague
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1883-07-03
Datum bis
1883-07-03
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3. Juli 1883
Epoche universalgeschichtlich
Beschreibung
Visit to the "Deutsche Knabenschule" - German-language elementary school on Fleischerplatz / Masná
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1889-01-01
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1893-01-01
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1889 - 1893
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Beschreibung
Visit to the "Altstädter Deutsches Gymnasium" - Palais Goltz-Kinsky rear building
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1893-01-01
Datum bis
1901-01-01
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1893 - 1901
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Beschreibung
Law studies at the German-language branch of Charles University
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1901-01-01
Datum bis
1906-01-01
Datierung
1901 - 1906
Epoche universalgeschichtlich
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Promotion
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Datum Von
1906-01-01
Datum bis
1906-12-31
Datierung
1906
Epoche universalgeschichtlich
Beschreibung
Worked as a lawyer at the Workers' Compensation Insurance Institute (AUVA)
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1908-01-01
Datum bis
1908-12-31
Datierung
1908
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Publication of the story "The Metamorphosis"
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Datum Von
1915-10-01
Datum bis
1915-10-31
Datierung
Oktober 1915
Epoche universalgeschichtlich
Beschreibung
"Letter to the Father" (first published in 1952)
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1919-11-01
Datum bis
1919-11-30
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November 1919
Epoche universalgeschichtlich
Beschreibung
Early retirement
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1922-01-01
Datum bis
1922-12-31
Datierung
1922
Epoche universalgeschichtlich
Beschreibung
Franz Kafka dies in the Hoffmann Sanatorium in Kierling / Austria
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Datum Von
1924-06-03
Datum bis
1924-06-03
Datierung
3. Juni 1924
Epoche universalgeschichtlich
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