Is Kafka heavy obligation? After all. However on the identical time a supply of inspiration, recognition and life classes – for society, the person, the doubter, the household father. 100 years in the past the Czech author Franz Kafka died, however his timeless work nonetheless touches us. That’s the reason the literature podcast ‘Die Vorleser’ dedicates a particular dwell version to Kafka, with Abdelkader Benali as visitor.
Within the podcast ‘Die Vorleser’, Germanist Trixie Hölsgens and German trainer Thomas de Vries recurrently talk about a basic from German-language literature. They alternately convey a guide and attempt to persuade the opposite to learn the guide. With Franz Kafka, nevertheless, each agree: you MUST learn Kafka, then a world will open up for you. A world filled with surprise, riddles, alienation, absurdism and knowledge.
Along with author and Kafka fanatic Abdelkader Benali and moderator Maarten Westerveen, they talk about why his work leaves such a deep impression, recite favourite texts and examine what Kafka has for us at this time. On this manner they don’t attempt to get one another, however the spectator and listener, to learn. They do that with the mandatory seriousness, but in addition with a wink, as a result of Kafka additionally cherished high-quality humor: “I can snicker auch […]”I am at all times pleased,” he as soon as wrote to his fiancée Felice Bauer.
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Abdelkader Benali is a author and TV presenter. For his novel debut ‘Bruiloft aan zee’ he was nominated for the Libris Literature Prize in 1997; In 2003 he gained the prize for his second novel ‘The Lengthy-awaited’. As well as, his work, which is revealed internationally, was awarded the E. du Perron Prize in 2010 and the celebrated Golden Goose Feather in 2020. Along with novels, Benali additionally writes articles for Trouw and De Kantteken, amongst others. For Historical past Month 2020 he wrote the essay ‘Travellers of a brand new period – Jan Janszoon, a Dutch pirate in Moroccan service’. In 2024, the NTR documentary sequence was launched below the title ‘Jan Janszoon, Pirate of the World’, with Benali because the narrator.
Trixie Hölsgens is a Germanist, thinker and worker of German language and tradition at DIA. She studied German language and tradition, Literary Research and Philosophy on the College of Amsterdam (UvA), Radboud College Nijmegen and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. She then labored as a lecturer within the German (nation research) course on the UvA. Along with her work on the DIA, she offers lectures and lectures as an impartial trainer within the subject of German-language literature and philosophy, for instance on Kafka and Adorno.
Thomas de Vries studied European Research and German language and tradition in Amsterdam and Munich. In 2018 he accomplished the grasp’s diploma in Literary Research: Literature, Tradition and Society (German) on the UvA. In the course of the grasp’s diploma he targeted on the work of Heinrich Heine. His work on the training division of the Germany Institute Amsterdam stimulated his curiosity in training. Since 2021, Thomas has been working as a German trainer on the Revius Lyceum in Doorn.
Maarten Westerveen (moderator) is a radio maker and podcaster. Along with making documentaries for VPRO/HUMAN, Maarten teaches rhetoric on the Cologne Enterprise Faculty in Cologne. Along with the Germany Institute and Germanyweb, he produces the podcast sequence Achtung, about German present affairs.
