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Franz Kafka (1883–1924)

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Franz Kafka was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Austrian Empire, in 1883. His father, Hermann Kafka, was a business owner and a domestic tyrant, frequently abusing his son. Kafka later admitted to his father, "My writing was all about you...". He believed that his father broke his will and caused insecurity and guilt... See full bio »

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in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. [now in Czech Republic]

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(age 40) in Kierling, Austria
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2013 Der Bau (novella) (in production)
 
2012 A Common Confusion (short) (story)
 
2011 Schakale und Araber (short) (short story "Schakale und Araber")
 
2011 Before the Law (short) (writer)
 
2009 The Burrow (short) (story)
 
2008 Conversation with the Supplicant (short) (based on the short story by)
 
2008 Pratioci (short) (story)
 
2007 Kafuka: Inaka isha (short) (short story "Ein Landarzt")
 
2007 A Metamorfose (short)
 
2007 La metamorfosis (story)
 
2006 The Man Who Waited (short) (story "The Trial")
 
2006 Nu devant un fantôme (short) (novel)
 
2006 In the Penal Colony (short) (story)
 
2005 Emancipación (texts)
 
2004 The Hunger Artist (short)
 
2004 Human Body (short) (short story "Ein Landarzt")
 
2004 Metamorfosis (short)
 
2002 Prevrashchenie (novel "Die Verwandlung")
 
2002 K (stories)
 
2002 Ein Brudermord (short) (original story)
 
2001 Lo strano caso del signor Kappa (novel)
 
1999 A Common Confusion (short) (writer)
 
1999 Bratobójstwo (short) (story)
 
1999 Am Ende des Ganges (short) (novel "Der Prozess")
 
1998 The Sickroom (short) (story)
 
1997 Das Schloß (novel "Das Schloß")
 
1997 Metamorphosis: Beyond the Screen Door (video) (based on the book by)
 
1995 Nachtland (short)
 
1994 Amerika (novel)
 
1994 The Chamber Stork (short) (short story)
 
1994 The Death of Molière (video)
 
1994 Incarnace (novel)
 
1994 Zamok (novel "Das Schloss")
 
1994 Spivachka Zhosefina i myshachyy narod (story)
 
1993 The Trial (novel)
 
1993 Distracted Viewing Trough a Window (short) (story)
 
1992 Rider on a Bucket (TV short) (short story)
 
1990 Tsikhe-Simagre (novel "Das Schloss")
 
1989 Informe per a una acadèmia (TV movie) (play)
 
1987 Metamorphosis (TV movie) (novel)
 
1986 Linna (novel "Das Schloss")
 
1984 Le château (TV movie) (novel "Das Schloss")
 
1984 Class Relations (novel "Amerika")
 
1983 Une villa aux environs de New York (TV movie) (novel "L'Amérique")
 
1983 La métamorphose (TV movie) (short story)
 
1983 Die Vorüberlaufenden (short) (short story)
 
1982 Levél apámhoz (TV movie)
 
1982 A Hunger Artist (story)
 
1981 Fraticidio (short) (story)
 
1981 Ein Brudermord (short) (story)
 
1980 Ante la ley (short) (story)
 
1978 The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (short) (story)
 
1978 Il processo (TV movie) (novel)
 
1977 Brosta sto nomo (short) (story)
 
1977 Bratrovrazda (short) (short story)
 
1976 Redogörelse framlagd för en akademi (TV movie) (story)
 
1976 Metamorphosis (novella "Die Verwandlung")
 
1975 Die Verwandlung (TV movie) (novel)
 
1975 El teatro (TV series)
– El castillo (1975) (novel "Das Schloß")
 
1975 Un informe para una academia (play)
 
1972 Plain-chant (TV series)
– Franz Kafka: La lettre au père (1972)
 
1970 The Great Wall of China (based on the stories by)
 
1970 Tuomio (TV movie) (short story)
 
1970 The Penal Colony (story)
 
1969 Amerika oder der Verschollene (TV movie) (novel)
 
1969 Oikeusjuttu (TV movie) (novel "Der Prozess")
 
1968 The Castle (novel "Das Schloß")
 
1967 Le Fratricide (short) (short story)
 
1966 Theatre 625 (TV series)
– Amerika (1966) (book)
 
1965 De grafbewaker (short) (story)
 
1963 In der Strafkolonie (TV movie) (short story)
 
1962 The Trial (novel)
 
1962 Das Schloß (TV movie) (novel)
 
1962 Prosessen (TV movie) (novel)
 
1962 Ein Bericht für eine Akademie (TV movie) (novella)
 
1953 K (Metamorphosis) (short) (story)
 
1950 Una confusión cotidiana (short) (short story)
 
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2008 The Reader (acknowledgment: The Metamorphosis by)
 
1993 Acción mutante (thanks)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

"Briefe an Felice" (book, 1967) See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Biographical Movie  | 5 Print Biographies  | 3 Articles  | See more »

Height:

5' 11¾" (1.82 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

Women are traps which lie in wait for men everywhere, in order to drag them down into the Finite. See more »

Trivia:

He is considered one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. See more »

Star Sign:

Cancer