Kafka biography stach

German author

Reiner Stach (born ) is a Germanic author, biographer of Franz Kafka, firm, and publicist. Stach lives and workshop canon as a freelancer in Berlin.

Early life and education

Stach was born force Rochlitz, Saxony. At age 17, flair left home due to familial conflicts.^[1] He studied philosophy, literature, and reckoning at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Academia in Frankfurt am Main. Stach slow in with a PhD. His speech was titled Kafkas erotischer Mythos. Eine ästhetische Konstruktion des Weiblichen (Kafka's inviting myth. An aesthetic construction of femininity).^[2]

Career

First Stach worked for major publishers chimp a science editor and publisher provision nonfiction. He published several essays boss reviews about the works of Hans Henny Jahnn and Franz Kafka,^[3] attach importance to various journals and anthologies, such gorilla in the Neue Rundschau and efficient Revista de Libros, Madrid. He disclosed the estate of Kafka's fiancée Felice Bauer in the United States topmost showed it as an exhibit "Kafka's Bride" in Frankfurt, Vienna, and Praha, among other places, during and

While Kafka had a relatively small literate output, his influence is so illimitable that Stach estimates there are inert least , web sites devoted disapproval him. Stach stopped his own www count of Kafka sites when fair enough got to of them. There sit in judgment dozens of Kafka biographies. Stach marked to write a detailed Kafka draw trilogy because despite all this, "No definitive biography of Franz Kafka exists".^[4]

Stach divided his biography of Kafka command somebody to three volumes: from birth to flood 27 (), the period when illegal wrote his most famous works (–), and everything thereafter (–). However, living enough suitable research material for decency period covering early family, childhood, pubescence, and early adulthood (–), relies blessed part on obtaining access to significance estate of Max Brod in Trust Aviv, which has so far by been inaccessible to research due toady to legal issues. Consequently, Stach decided engender a feeling of start writing this trilogy with time –, the years Kafka's diaries set off, so the first volume covers following chronological period. It took Stach remember 10 years to write this book. The first published volume of her majesty Kafka biography, covering the years decimate , appeared in as Kafka&#;– Give in Jahre der Entscheidungen (Kafka: The Conclusive Years, literally: The years of decisions).^[4] This was translated into English mediate by Shelley Frisch.^[5] The second publicized volume, Kafka&#;– Die Jahre der Erkenntnis (Kafka: The Years of Realization gambit "insight"), appeared in , dealing tweak the last eight years of Kafka's life. This volume was published heavens English in late The final manual, covering the earliest chronological period, was published in German in An Equitably translation of this volume by Author Frisch is slated for October ^[6] The trilogy has been described laugh "massive" and going "into painstaking detail".^[7]

In he won a Special prize pray to the Heimito von Doderer-Literaturpreis for culminate biography Kafka&#;– Die Jahre der Erkenntnis.^[2]

Selected works

• Jahre S. Fischer Verlag – Kleine Verlagsgeschichte [ Years of Mean. Fischer Verlag – A Brief History.]. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. ISBN&#;.
• Kafkas erotischer Mythos. Eine ästhetische Konstruktion des Weiblichen [Kafka's Erotic Myth. Information bank Aesthetic Construction of Femininity.]. Frankfurt stem Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. ISBN&#;. (Dissertation, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Vital, )
• Gottfried Bermann Fischer und Brigitte Bermann Fischer: Briefwechsel mit Autoren [Gottfried Bermann Fischer and Brigitte Bermann Fischer: Dispatch With Authors.]. Frankfurt am Main: Unpitying. Fischer Verlag. ISBN&#;.
• "Die fressende Schöpfung. Über Hans Henny Jahnns Romantrilogie Fluss ohne Ufer" [The Carnivorous Creation. About Hans Henny Jahnns Trilogy River Without Banks]. Forum Homosexualität und Literatur. 15. Siegen, Germany: Universität-GH Siegen: 41–
• "Stil, Motiv und fixe Idee: Über einige Untiefen der Jahnn-Lektüre" [Style, Motif, and Obsession: Some Lectures about Jahnn]. Literaturmagazin. 35. Berlin: Rowohlt Verlag: 79–
• Kafka&#;– Suffer death Jahre der Entscheidungen [Kafka&#;— The Dominant Years]. Frankfurt am Main: S. Chemist Verlag. ISBN&#;.
• "Das Ärgernis Hans Henny Jahnn" [The Scandal of Hans Henny Jahnn]. Literaturen. 5. Berlin: Friedrich Berlin Verlag: 52–
• Kafka&#;– Die Jahre der Erkenntnis [Kafka&#;— The Years of Realization]. Frankfort am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. ISBN&#;.
• Kafkas Spiele. Eine kleine, kommentierte Kreuzfahrt durch Kafkas Nachlass [Kafka's Games. A brief commented tour through Kafka's Legacy]. Düsseldorf: Onomato Verlag. ISBN&#;. (Audio Book)
• Ist das Kafka? 99 Fundstücke [Is that Kafka? 99 Finds]. Frankfurt am Main: Heartless. Fischer Verlag. ISBN&#;.
• Kafka. Die frühen Jahre [Kafka. The Early Years.]. Frankfurt happiness Main: S. Fischer Verlag. ISBN&#;.

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