Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

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Dates:
Birth 1883-07-03
Death 1924-06-03
Serbia and Montenegro
German, English, English, German,

Biographical notes:

Franz Kafka, author of source material. Max Brod, original adapter. David Fishelson and Aaron Leichter, adapters.

From the description of The castle: typescript, 2002. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164213

Kurt Pinthus (1886-1975) was a German writer and editor, and a colleague of Franz Werfel at Kurt Wolff Verlag in Leipzig in 1913 and 1914; Robert Klopstock, a Hungarian-born physician who emigrated to the U.S. in 1938, was a friend of Kafka and the recipient of a letter from Werfel; Willy Haas, a Prague-born German writer, critic, and editor, was a lifelong friend of Werfel and the editor of Kafka's Briefe an Milena (first published 1952); Hartmut Binder (b. 1937) was a professor of German literature who first published Kafka's 1913 letter to Pinthus, along with a commentary, in 1983; Lyman Riley was a librarian at the University of Pennsylvania and the recipient of a clipping of the latter published item from Binder; and Politzer was a professor of German and Kafka scholar who forwarded to Adolf Klarmann an excerpt from Kafka's diaries.

From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1913-1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863591

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  • Fiction

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  • Novelists

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