Mary Flanagan, [borders: chichen itza], 2010
Access Word
JMB Book club A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka (in German)
Read along!
In the last year of his life, Kafka, who was already suffering from laryngeal tuberculosis, worked on his anthology A Hunger Artist.
Tue 25 Feb 2025, 6.30 pm
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
The book was published shortly before his death in 1924. While Kafka's three prose texts First Sorrow, A Hunger Artist and Josefine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk place the artist's existence and artistic creation at the centre of his narrative, A Little Woman can be read as an allegory on the arts. The book club will follow these and other traces with literary scholar and Kafka expert Birgit Erdle as well as Monika Sommerer, head of the JMB library.
The programme accompanying the Access Kafka exhibition is supported by Berliner Sparkasse.
Franz Kafka. Black notebook – drawings, ca. 1923; סימול ARC. 4* 2000 05 037, Max Brod Archive, The National Library of Israel
Franz Kafka. Black notebook – drawings, ca. 1923; סימול ARC. 4* 2000 05 037, Max Brod Archive, The National Library of Israel
Exhibition ACCESS KAFKA: Features & Programs
- Exhibition Webpage
- Access Kafka (13 Dec 2024 to 4 May 2025): Information on the exhibition chapters, artworks and documents
- Accompanying Events
- Exhibition Opening: 12 Dec 2024, 7 pm
- Curator's Tour with Shelley Harten: Tour with fixed dates, in German
- Access Word – JMB Book Club The Vegetarian by Han Kang: 21 Jan 2025, in German
- Kafka and Art – Lecture by Hans-Gerd Koch: 30 Jan 2025, in German and German Sign Language (DGS)
- Current page: Access Word: JMB Book Club A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka – 25 Feb 2025, in German
- Public Tour in German: Tour with fixed dates
- Public Tour in English: Tour with fixed dates
- Public Tour in Hebrew: Tour with fixed dates
- Bookable Tour for Groups: Tour by appointment
- Digital Content
- Access Deferred: Essay by Vivian Liska on Kafka’s Judaism, from the exhibition catalog, 2024
- Franz Kafka: A short biography and further online content on the topic
- Kafka in Berlin: Berlin walk on Jewish Places to biographical stations of Franz Kafka, written by Hans-Gerd Koch
- Publications
- Exhibition catalog: German edition, 2024
- Exhibition catalog: English edition, 2024
