Kafka

  • Commemorating the 95th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death
  • Illustrations for numerous texts and letters by Franz Kafka
  • A piece of art not only experts will appreciate

Franz Kafka’s texts have been fascinating and puzzling generations of readers. They are full of riddles and they are unsettling – and that is exactly why they capture readers’ imagination. Stefanie Harjes, an artist from Hamburg, let herself be inspired by them and created extraordinary illustrations. During long nights in her studio, she wrestled with his texts but also laughed about him again and again. With this book, she presents the reader with her very own perspective on one of the most important writers of the 20th century and shows that his works do not only offer dark depths.

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  • Publisher: Fischer Sauerländer
  • Release: 26.06.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-7373-5683-1
  • 128 Pages
  • Authors: Franz Kafka
  • Illustrated by: Stefanie Harjes
  • 14 +
Kafka
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Archiv S. Fischer Verlag
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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Prague on July 3, 1883. After studying law, which he completed with a doctorate in 1906, Kafka was employed by the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute in 1908, where he remained a civil servant until his early retirement in 1922. In the late summer of 1917, Franz Kafka suffered a hemorrhage. This was the onset of tuberculosis, which he later died of, passing away on June 3, 1924, before his 41st birthday.

Susanna Wengeler
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Stefanie Harjes

Stefanie Harjes, born in 1967 in Bremen, studied Illustration and Painting in Hamburg and Prague. Since 1994, she has been working as an illustrator and book artist in her studio in Hamburg.