Exhibition on the door with Franz Kafka
Published: Tuesday, Feb 6th 2024, 12:21
Updated At: Wednesday, Feb 7th 2024, 00:59
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Under the title "Kafka - Doors, Death & Texts", the Strauhof Literature Museum in Zurich is opening up new approaches to Franz Kafka. Doors play a central role as a motif in his work.
In Franz Kafka's work, doors enclose and exclude, they hint at escape routes and reinforce the inaccessibility of bureaucratic power.
The exhibition at Strauhof picks up on these aspects by staging the motif of the door spatially. Visitors have the choice of stepping through one door or the other: to receive answers to Kafka questions from renowned Kafka experts Rainer Stach and Andreas Kilcher, to watch video testimonies or to find out what fascinates authors about Kafka today.
Finally, the Austrian comic artist Nicolas Mahler also has a place in the show curated by Rémi Jaccard and Philip Sippel on Kafka's life, work and aftermath. What Kafka's literary imagination created between work, inner turmoil and illness, he says, are "actually all humor figures" on closer inspection.
The exhibition "Kafka - Doors, Death & Texts" can be seen from February 8 to May 12.
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