Before World Fame: Commemorating Franz Kafka in 1920s Central Europe


The talk is also available online (Microsoft Teams). Please email kafka@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk as soon as possible if you have mobility / access needs.

Ines Koeltzsch is a visiting professor at the Jewish Studies Program at CEU Vienna. This lecture offers a new perspective on the early afterlife of Kafka and examines both the significance of the media (text, voice, image) and of intellectual networks and communities of remembrance across nation-state borders in creating the author’s legend. This hybrid event is organised by the AHRC-funded project Kafka’s Transformative Communities and all are welcome.