Before world fame. Obituaries for Franz Kafka and the building of literary immortality

Before world fame. Obituaries for Franz Kafka and the building of literary immortality Tuesday, February 11 at 6 pm Ines Koeltzsch Franz Kafka has undoubtedly become an icon of world literature since the 1940s. However, this fame did not come overnight. Already after his death in June 1924, he was increasingly written and talked about in Central Europe. In her lecture on her new book "Vor dem Weltruhm" (Böhlau, Vienna/Cologne 2024), Ines Koeltzsch shows how, through texts, images and the spoken word, authors known and unknown remembered Franz Kafka immediately after his death. She places special emphasis on the creation of a Jewish memorial community, to which the painter and Brno native Clara Epstein, among others, contributed. Admission is voluntary