Bernhard Setzwein: Kafka's Journey Through a Bumpy World

What if Franz Kafka had not died in 1924? If he had lived on, how would he have lived, how would he have loved? Where would he have stayed? Would he have lived to see him become world-famous?

Bernhard Setzwein plays this mind game in his novel „Kafkas Reise durch die bucklige Welt“ („Kafka's journey through the bumpy world“), published on the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's death. In Setzwein's book, Kafka only faked his death in Vienna in 1924. He has gone into hiding and given up his unsuccessful writing career; instead, the aged Kafka works at the Apollo cinema in Merano.

Bernhard Setzwein presents a fast-paced, amusing Kafka novel that resurrects the famous writer in the truest sense of the word - and manages to reawaken a desire for Franz Kafka's works and interest in his life.

We look forward to tasting samples from the new novel and to the discussion that Carsten Lenk will have with the author about it.

Bernhard Setzwein was born in Munich in 1960 and studied German and folklore there. He moved to the Upper Palatinate in 1990 and lives in Waldmünchen on the Bavarian-Bohemian border. Setzwein is the author of volumes of poetry, essays, travel feuilletons and novels. He has also written a dozen plays and numerous radio features.

Bernhard Setzwein has received several awards, including the Friedrich Baur Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. His works have been translated into Czech, Romanian and French, among others.

The event is a cooperation between the Evangelisches Bildungswerk Regensburg, Lichtung Verlag and the cultural department for the Bohemian countries in the Adalbert-Stifter-Verein.

Admission: 9 / 6 €

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