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FRANZ
KAFKA
100
YEARS
AFTER
HIS
DEATH Illustration by Roberto Majan

Why does Franz

Kafka’s spell remain
unbroken a hundred
years after his death?
Why do we still
perceive Kafka as so
modern and
contemporary?
Because Kafka wrote

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such beautiful
letters? Because we
love drama queens?
Because we feel that
the world has never
been more
Kafkaesque than it is
today? Join us as we
step into Kafka’s
world! Be Kafka!

EVENTS

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© Goethe-Institut Indonesia / Anschlaege.de © Goethe-Institut Illustration by Nicolas Mahler

Theater play VR Game Day Exhibition

A Report to the VRWandlung: “Komplett Kafka”

Academy Kafka in Virtual 01.01.2024–28.03.2024

01. and 02.05.2024 | 7.30 PM Reality Library of the Goethe-Institut

Komunitas Salihara
24.02.2024–23.03.2024
Library of the Goethe-Institut
Ibed S. Yuga and Kalanari Theatre
Jakarta
Movement will perform a play
based on Franz Kafka's short
Experience "Die Verwandlung" -
story A Report to an Academy.
Kafka's masterpiece - in VR like
never before!
Jakarta
To mark the 100th anniversary of
the death of the renowned
German-speaking writer Franz
Kafka, the Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Library is presenting the
"Komplett Kafka" exhibition,
which includes a variety of
illustrations by comic artist and
illustrator Nicolas Mahler.

BEING KAFKA

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Comics and graphic novels

Kafka in the
realm of comics
Franz Kafka was himself a good illustrator
and would surely have enjoyed these
comics and graphic novels that were
created by comic book artists from
different parts of the world and all have
one thing in common: the subject of
Kafka.
© Moritz von Wolzogen, published by Nathalia Laue

© Nicolas Mahler, Suhrkamp Verlag

© Suhrkamp / Canva © Danny Howe / Unsplash

Graphic novel Nicolas Mahler Kafka and TikTok

Kafka’s failed Draw Kafka for Why is everyone

money-making
scheme
On the hundredth anniversary of
his death, Franz Kafka’s life and
work are being celebrated and
illuminated. In his new graphic
novel, illustrator Nicolas Mahler
gives them a colourful brilliance –
although it’s almost all black-and-
white.
me so obsessed with
Nicolas Mahler is a comic Franz Kafka?
illustrator whose book “Komplett
Kafka” (Completely Kafka) is The Czech writer died nearly a
published in Kafka’s centenary century ago, but is enjoying a
year, and it will tour as an renaissance on TikTok and X.
exhibition. Ulrich Fügener spoke
with Nicolas Mahler – about
comics, Kafka, humour and
melancholy.

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© Wagenbach Verlag (Art work: Tobias

© Noom Peerapong / Unsplash © Verlag Klaus Wagenbach Schrank)

Early pop culture Tomáš Moravec Reiner Stach

Kafka, the Whom does Franz Franz Kafka in

Cinephile
At the beginning of the 20th
century, cinema was new and
sensational – Franz Kafka was
fascinated by it. There are
numerous mentions of what
Kafka had seen at the movies.
Kafka belong to?
The question of whom Franz
Kafka belongs to occupies many
minds more persistently than is
perhaps necessary.
the 21st century
Why do we continue to find Franz
Kafka so compelling 100 years
after his death? Why is Kafka still
considered to be so modern and
contemporary? What awaits us in
Kafka’s anniversary year of
2024? Reiner Stach, Kafka’s most
important biographer, provides us
with some answers.

Photo (detail): © mauritius images / STOCK4B

/ Felbert+Eickenberg © Verlag Klaus Wagenbach

Everything’s well regulated Kafka’s humour Kafka and sport

Bureaucracy The big laugher The great swim-

What’s the most effective way for
a family to manage the children’s
screentime? By enforcing rules –
simple ones initially. It quickly
takes on Kafkaesque
proportions. Some observations
on bureaucracy by Maximilian
Buddenbohm.
Kafka is a writer of dark,
nightmarish tales? – Perhaps, yes.
But this is too superficial a view.
Let us embark on a quest for the
comical in Kafka.
mer
Most people know Franz Kafka as
that brilliant author who wrote
The Metamorphosis, “The
Judgment” or “The Trial”.
However, what many Kafka buffs
don’t know: Kafka was a
thoroughly physical person, Kafka
was not just sporty, he was an all-
out sports enthusiast.

Goethe-Institut Montréal

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Goethe-Institut Montréal

Amelie Kahl Marie-Pierre Poulin

Franz had style Booktube with

What do Kafka and fashion have Kafka
in common? A feeling of always
In her booktube video series
arriving too late. We chase after
Marie-Pierre Poulin, librarian at
fashion and can escape it only to
the Goethe-Institut Montréal,
a limited degree. In a way, we are
presents the timeless classic “The
at its mercy. Because no matter
Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka.
how we dress or don’t dress, our
outward appearance always says
something about us.

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