Reading as part of the 1st international literature festival graal-müritz
Can we believe everything the author has written about his relatives, especially his father? What is truth and what is fiction for someone who says of himself that he is made up of literature? And what role does Graal-Müritz play in the last phase of Kafka's life? The approximately 100 photographs of the Kafka family, many of which have never been published before, show an author of world literature and his relatives - in the town, at their summer retreat and dressed up in their photo studio. Kafka's texts were written in the "great noise" of the family. His relationship with his sisters, especially Ottla, was very close, and as a concerned uncle he worried about the proper upbringing of his nephew and nieces - the photos preserved by the sisters' descendants not only document family life, but also tell of the social rise of a Jewish family from simple rural circumstances to the Prague bourgeoisie.
