by Janko Ferk

On the 100th anniversary of his death, the cultural department of the city of Villach, in cooperation with the neuebuehnevillach, presents an evening in honor of Franz Kafka with a staged reading and presentation of Janko Ferk's "Franz. A Play".

A year after the writer's death, five women who were close to Franz Kafka meet at the home of Kafka's upper-middle-class parents in the center of Prague. These are Ottla Kafka, Kafka's favorite sister; Dora Diamant, his partner in the last months of his life; Felice Bauer, his fiancée whom he never married; Julie Wohryzek, his last fiancée; and Milena Jesenská, the first translator of his texts into Czech and his pen friend. They are all united in various ways by a complicated love for Kafka, not least because he "was too little simple".

Janko Ferk works and lives in Klagenfurt. He is a lawyer, honorary professor of literature at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, and a writer. He has published more than forty books to date. For his literary and academic work, he has received numerous awards and honors.

Photo: © MARTIN RAUCHENWALD

For tickets with the following discounts, please contact the cultural department of the city of Villach:

- Wheelchair seat with companion

- Holder of a Kärnten-Kultur-Card

- Holder of an Ö1-Club-Card

- Groups from 20 persons

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