Franz Kafka? The writer who lived in Prague and was sick all the time? We know a different Kafka, and we’d like to open a permanent exhibition in Zürau to introduce you to Kafka-globetrotter who liked going to the cinema, did sports and rode a motorbike.
Author: Jindra & Matyášová
Nov 9, 2015
Oct 23, 2015
Amazing text from Berthold Franke, director of the Goethe-Institut Czech Republic, who supports us:
" Franz Kafka lived in Prague. He was an important writer and his personality is known to be complicated. Well that is all true – and it is nothing new, is it? When talking about Kafka, don´t we often fall in a trap of clichés and tourist marketing? The project of Judita Matyášová and Jan Jindra offers us a new point of view at Kafka: we are getting to know Kafka, a sportsman who enjoyed vegetarian meals. Franz Kafka, the happy man. In the Goethe-Institut, we would also be happy to know, that the permanent exhibition of Kafka in the town of Siřem could be established."
Oct 15, 2015
Kathi Diamant
During my SDSU Kafka Project research in Poland in 2008, Judita Matyášová and Jan Jindra took me to Magical Zürau, where Kafka wrote his wonderful aphorisms. I saw for myself the undeniable magic which permeates the ancient village, with its unpaved roads and crumbling farmhouses surrounding an abandoned Baroque church, untouched since Kafka's day, except by the forces of nature. The opportunity to step back into time, into this authentic respite in the rolling Bohemian countryside, is priceless. If you love Kafka, make the pilgrimage to Siřem/Zürau to experience the magic for yourself.
Writer, author of Kafka’s Last Love
http://www.kafkaproject.com/book/
Reiner Stach
There is good news for everyone tired of the same old Kafka folklore connected with Prague: The photography project created by Jan Jindra and Judita Matyášová constitutes an important step in the direction of a more subtle, realistic and dynamic image of Kafka. And it is particularly fortunate that this exhibition will be mounted in the village of Siřem/Züerau where Kafka spent some of the happiest months of his life. There is no other place where the milieu of his own lifetime remains as authentic as it does there – and the photography exhibition will make an important contribution to maintaining its historical intimacy.
Writer, biographer of Franz Kafka
http://www.reinerstach.de/
www.franzkafka.de
Blšany, Ústecký kraj, Česká republika
All or nothing. Project finished on Dec 5, 2015 at 18:02.