Viernheim (City of Viernheim) – The adult education center department, in cooperation with the city library and the Schwarz auf Weiß bookstore, invites you to a special literary event in the Kulturscheune on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free, but a small voluntary donation is requested.
The focus of the evening is Franz Kafka, who died in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924, exactly 100 years ago. No other writer has managed, like Kafka, to have his name become a synonym for a certain type of complex, often opaque action – “Kafkaesque” has long since entered the world’s languages. But what lies behind the mysterious and often difficult to understand work of this exceptional author?
Stefan Ackermann, who has been intensively interested in Kafka’s life and work since he was 15, will organize the evening. With a lively and image-rich presentation, he will shed light on Franz Kafka’s life and address central themes such as the father-son relationship, marital problems and Kafka’s creative drive. Ackermann’s attempt to make Kafka’s work more accessible and to interpret his short prose in an exemplary manner is particularly exciting. Anyone who had difficulty with Kafka at school or has not yet found access to his work should not miss this opportunity.
The literary performance is accompanied musically by Norbert Roschauer, who conjures up the sound of the 1920s with blues arrangements on his historic Weißenborn guitar – a homage to the time in which Kafka lived.
