<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institute]]></title><description><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institute]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:40:15 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.franz-kafka.cz/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Franz Kafka und seine Stadt]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Prag wurde Franz Kafka 1883 geboren, hier besuchte er seine Schulen, an der hiesigen Universität studierte und promovierte er zum Doktor der Jurisprudenz. ]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/franz-kafka-und-seine-stadt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a6d6a9b220091e29d78ad9</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafkastätten]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:09:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_e1479c30313f4fc28786c8aefe2dd822~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_900,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franz Kafka and His City]]></title><description><![CDATA[Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883; here he went to school and studied at the city’s university, obtaining a doctorate in law. He worked and wrote in Prague too; here was his circle of friends, his intellectual sphere.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/franz-kafka-and-his-city</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c26d5dd3880d59321f2d54</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafka locations]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:55:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_e1479c30313f4fc28786c8aefe2dd822~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_900,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kafka’s birthplace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Franz Kafka’s birthplace was a simple, two-storey building on the north-west side of the Old Town Square, at the edge of what was then still the Prague ghetto. Franz Kafka was born here on 3 July 1883, the first of the young Hermann and Julie Kafka’s six children.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/kafka-s-birthplace</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d4f2997580ecee2758ebf4</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:55:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_1290cc049de441d5b7d8c5ce839f31d7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_900,h_619,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rodný dům Franze Kafky]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rodný dům Franze Kafky, prostý, dvoupatrový obytný dům na severozápadní straně Staroměstského náměstí, se nachází na okraji tehdy ještě existujícího Pražského ghetta. Zde se 3. července roku 1883 narodil Franz Kafka jako první ze šesti dětí mladého manželského páru Hermanna a Julie Kafkových.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/rodn%C3%BD-d%C5%AFm-franze-kafky</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d4f6257580ecee2758f036</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:23:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_1290cc049de441d5b7d8c5ce839f31d7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_900,h_619,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Das Geburtshaus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Franz Kafkas Geburtshaus, ein einfaches, zweistöckiges Wohnhaus an der Nordwestseite des Altstädter Rings, liegt am Rande des damals noch bestehenden Prager Ghettos. Hier kam am 3. Juli des Jahres 1883 Franz Kafka zur Welt, als erstes von sechs Kindern des jungen Ehepaars Hermann und Julie Kafka. ]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/das-geburtshaus</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d4ea23f1e9d95ab5e6dcec</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafkastätten]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:12:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_1290cc049de441d5b7d8c5ce839f31d7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_900,h_619,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kafka’s The Judgement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kafka penned his key work The Judgement on a single, legendary September night in 1912 – “like a genuine birth, covered with mess and slime”. Kafka had dedicated The Judgement to Felice Bauer, and her initials match those of Frieda Brandenfeld, the fiancée in the story. The story of the young businessman George Bendemann was the first in a succession of completed works and the surety of style Kafka had now achieved would serve as his standard for all his subsequent texts.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/kafka-s-the-judgement</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d4e0f6b2b0475dba62a4df</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafka's work]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:55:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_60a4ed19835949998fd97740bacd854e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_900,h_652,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kafkův Ortel]]></title><description><![CDATA[V noci z 22. na 23. září 1912 napsal Kafka v domě U Lodi klíčovou povídku Ortel, „bylo to jako opravdový porod, se špínou a slizem“. Bylo to krátce po prvním setkání s Felicí Bauerovou, jíž také povídku věnoval a jejíž iniciály souhlasí s iniciálami Friedy Brandenfeldové, snoubenky z povídky. Příběh mladého obchodníka Georga Bendemanna zahájil plejádu dokončených děl]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/kafk%C5%AFv-ortel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d4e462174f0dbd2c4988d8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:23:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_60a4ed19835949998fd97740bacd854e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_900,h_652,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kafkas Urteil]]></title><description><![CDATA[In einer legendären Septembernacht des Jahres 1912 brachte Kafka im Haus Zum Schiff die Schlüsselerzählung Das Urteil zu Papier, „wie eine regelrechte Geburt mit Schmutz und Schleim bedeckt“. Kafka hatte Das Urteil Felice Bauer zugeeignet, deren Anfangsbuchstaben mit den Initialen von Frieda Brandenfeld übereinstimmen, der Gestalt der Verlobten in der Geschichte.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/kopie-kafkas-urteil</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d4dcbbfc74251ed3c2903e</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafkas Werke]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:52:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_60a4ed19835949998fd97740bacd854e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_900,h_652,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Der Heizer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ungefähr zwei Wochen, nachdem Kafka die Konzeption des Verschollenen vorübergehend aufgegeben hatte, kam er beim Überlesen des bisher Vorliegenden zu der unwiderlegbaren Überzeugung, daß allein das erste Kapitel des Romans, der Heizer, aus innerer Wahrheit herkomme, also publikationswürdig war.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/der-heizer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c6af9b495b6130434ecfb5</guid><category><![CDATA[Kafkas Werke]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_b8843602b075448298743bc5549051b9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_472,h_317,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Café Arco]]></title><description><![CDATA[In autumn 1907, Josef Suchánek from Reichenberg [Liberec] opened a café near the then Prague State Railway Station. Although the Arco soon became the haunt of major artists including Max Švabinský, Bohuslav Kubišta and Friedrich Feigl, it is better known as the coffeehouse favoured by Prague’s German and Jewish writers. Willy Haas, Paul Kornfeld, Hans and Franz Janowitz, Rudolf Fuchs and Otto Pick all socialised here.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/kopie-at-the-caf%C3%A9-arco</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d52ac7fda0643280d001e8</guid><category><![CDATA[Kafka locations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institute]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:55:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_2f60ef06b54348c88469dbfdc39cc6e9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_633,h_472,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[V kavárně Arco]]></title><description><![CDATA[Na podzim roku 1907 otevřel kavárník Josef Suchánek pocházející z Liberce v blízkosti tehdejšího pražského Státního nádraží podnik, který se záhystal centrem dostaveníček výtvarných umělců, jako byli ku příkladu Max Švabinský, Bohuslav Kubišta nebo Friedrich Feigl. Ještě známější je však Arco jako kavárna pražských německých spisovatelů, chodívali sem třeba Willy Haas, Paul Kornfeld, Hans a Franz Janowitzovi, Rudolf Fuchs a Otto Pick. ]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/kopie-v-kav%C3%A1rn%C4%9B-arco</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d526bf7580ecee2759188c</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafkovská místa]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:23:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_2f60ef06b54348c88469dbfdc39cc6e9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_633,h_472,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Im Café Arco]]></title><description><![CDATA[Im Herbst 1907 eröffnete der aus Reichenberg stammende Cafetier Josef Suchánek in der Nähe des damaligen Prager Staatsbahnhofes ein Etablissement, das bald zur Anlaufstelle so bedeutender Künstler wie Max Švabinský, Bohuslav Kubišta oder Friedrich Feigl wurde. Bekannter ist das Arco freilich als Kaffeehaus der Prager deutschen und jüdischen Schriftsteller, so verkehrten hier Willy Haas, Paul Kornfeld, Hans und Franz Janowitz, Rudolf Fuchs und Otto Pick.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/im-caf%C3%A9-arco</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d520e010427b2b31497c1f</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafkastätten]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_2f60ef06b54348c88469dbfdc39cc6e9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_633,h_472,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Proměně]]></title><description><![CDATA[Když se Franz Kafka jednoho rána probudil z neklidných snů, zjistil, že se ve své posteli – ne, v žádném případě se neproměnil v ohavný hmyz, ovšem přece jen s myšlenkou na to v hlavě, které se už nezbavil.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/o-prom%C4%9Bn%C4%9B</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c3f7e0dec0d7cfa1df12a8</guid><category><![CDATA[Pražská edice]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:06:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_02faa621564f48ed8585783a8b9b2bfa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_642,h_469,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the Metamorphosis]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Franz Kafka awoke one morning from his troubled dreams, he found himself in his bed – no not transformed into a monstrous insect, but with an idea in his head that would not let him go.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/about-the-metamorphosis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c3f41e4e7901bd5c42cf5c</guid><category><![CDATA[Prague Edition]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:48:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_02faa621564f48ed8585783a8b9b2bfa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_642,h_469,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Über Die Verwandlung]]></title><description><![CDATA[Als Franz Kafka eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett – nein, keineswegs zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt, aber doch mit dem Gedanken daran im Kopf, der ihn nicht mehr loslassen sollte. ]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/%C3%BCber-kafkas-meistererz%C3%A4hlung-die-verwandlung</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69aa9dfed66894c6d6f32bfe</guid><category><![CDATA[Prager Ausgabe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafkas Werke]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:30:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_02faa621564f48ed8585783a8b9b2bfa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_642,h_469,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Über das Oppelt-Haus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Im November 1913 bezieht die Familie Kafka eine Vierzimmer-Wohnung im 4. Obergeschoß des Oppeltschen Hauses. Den Grund für die Übersiedlung vom mondänen Haus zum Schiff am Moldauufer auf den Altstädter Ring kennen wir nicht. ]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/%C3%BCber-das-oppelt-haus</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bd55559b4f1678f080d639</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafkastätten]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:37:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_9467eff2bf7c4dc28fd65137853eb517~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_592,h_347,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kafka’s Lover Milena Jesenská]]></title><description><![CDATA[Towards the end of October 1919, Kafka got to know the Czech journalist Milena Jesenská, who was married to a bon vivant, and showed an interest in translating Kafka’s story The Stoker into Czech.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/kafka-s-lover-milena-jesensk%C3%A1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c409984e7901bd5c42e336</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institute]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:15:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_2638260a8fc24ef9a7cfc86206c40f70~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_569,h_591,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kafkas Geliebte Milena Jesenská]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mit ihr ist die wohl berühmteste Liebesgeschichte in der Prager Literaturszene verbunden: Milena Jesenská (1896–1944) war die tschechische Geliebte Franz Kafkas.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/milena-jesensk%C3%A1-kafkas-geliebte</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bd53b3e108eb64bf200305</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prager Ausgabe]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:07:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_2638260a8fc24ef9a7cfc86206c40f70~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_569,h_591,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Golden Lane]]></title><description><![CDATA[The little house at 22 Golden Lane in the Prague Castle complex is probably one of the most famous places associated with Kafka in Prague. In mid-1916, Kafka and his sister came to this picturesque spot to find a writing retreat: “Just for fun, we inquired in the little lane. Yes, a cottage would be available to rent in November”.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/kopie-in-the-golden-lane</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d514d6d9cc2d1d3498caee</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafka locations]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:55:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_f9a1c0de8524482fb464afc42555bc8f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_885,h_663,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ve Zlaté uličce]]></title><description><![CDATA[K asi nejznámějším místům v Praze spjatým s Franzem Kafkou patří malý domek ve Zlaté uličce č. 22 na Pražském hradě. Na toto malebné místo se tedy Kafka v polovině roku 1916 vydal se svou sestrou, aby našel samotu na psaní: „Jen žertem jsme se zeptali v té malé uličce. Ano, jeden domeček by byl v listopadu k pronajmutí“.]]></description><link>https://www.franz-kafka.cz/post/kopie-ve-zlat%C3%A9-uli%C4%8Dce</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d51b2fc0be1d060cd132d4</guid><category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka Institut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kafkovská místa]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:23:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/752003_f9a1c0de8524482fb464afc42555bc8f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_885,h_663,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>info254410</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>