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The story of Franz Kafka's life from different perspectives. Presenting his difficult relationship with his domineering father Hermann, his deep friendship with Max Brod and his various love affairs.

First Aired

2024-03-26
Last Aired

2024-03-27
Creator

Reiner Stach
Genre

Drama
Seasons

1
Episodes

7
Status

Ended
Language

Deutsch
Network

Das Erste, NDR Fernsehen

Keywords:

biography

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Season 1

1. Max

Max Brod is a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friend's work from oblivion by brea...More

Max Brod is a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friend's work from oblivion by breaking his promise to burn all unpublished papers after Franz's death; Max carries them to safety on the last train out of Prague at the onset of WW2.Less

42mins 2024-03-26

2. Felice

Kafka has a turbulent relationship with his on and off fiancée Felice Bauer; after getting to know eac...More

Kafka has a turbulent relationship with his on and off fiancée Felice Bauer; after getting to know each other mainly through letters, their engagement is broken off, renewed, only to be broken off again.Less

48mins 2024-03-26

3. Family

Kafka's father --to whom Franz will address a merciless indictment of over 100 pages, never sent in hi...More

Kafka's father --to whom Franz will address a merciless indictment of over 100 pages, never sent in his lifetime but posthumously published as "Letter to the Father"-- is strict and domineering.Less

45mins 2024-03-26

4. Bureau

Kafka has an ambiguous relationship with his workplace; a brilliant insurance lawyer, Kafka is highly ...More

Kafka has an ambiguous relationship with his workplace; a brilliant insurance lawyer, Kafka is highly respected by his colleagues who, at the height of WW1, save his life by preventing him from enlisting.Less

44mins 2024-03-27

5. Milena

Kafka has a brief but intense relationship with the charismatic writer Milena Jesenská, who translated...More

Kafka has a brief but intense relationship with the charismatic writer Milena Jesenská, who translated his work from German to Czech; he revealed his most intimate self to her and entrusted her with the safekeeping of his diaries.Less

43mins 2024-03-27

6. Dora

Kafka has a last great love, Dora Dymant, whom he meets in a Baltic sea resort which his imagination t...More

Kafka has a last great love, Dora Dymant, whom he meets in a Baltic sea resort which his imagination turns into the mythical village of his final novel "The Castle"; after moving in together to a flat in Berlin, Dora cares for Kafka until the end.Less