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Some interesting links on Franz Kafka
Kafka societies and the like
www.kafkasocietyofamerica.org
Website of the first Kafka society (founded 1975).
Email: Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr, executive director: mlcaputomayr@hotmail.com.
www.franzkafka-soc.cz
In Czech, partially in English. Contains information on the Czech Franz Kafka Society (founded 1990) and Centrum Franze Kafky (Franz Kafka Center).
E-mail: f.kafka.soc@ecn.cz.
www.kafka-gesellschaft.de
At last also a German Kafka society, founded 2005. Its site gives information on a.o. Kafka related events, publications, postcard program, cooperation projects, newsletter and curiosities.
Email: chmura@kafka-gesellschaft.de.
http://www.kafka-zeitschrift.de/
The first online periodical specially devoted to Kafka, edited by Adela Schönborn & Roman Halfmann.
Email: redaktion@kafka-zeitschrift.de.
Most relevant websites
www.kafka.org
Extensive site by Italian Kafka fan. Offers complete German text of critical edition (available are now Kafka's three novels, Betrachtung, Das Urteil, diaries and part of Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente I & II); also scanned manuscript of "Im Dom" from Der Proceß, and Italian translation of the same novel. A lot of downloadable articles on Kafka, also by outstanding Kafka scholars. Many links.
E-mail: mauronervi@tin.it.
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/werner.haas/
Website, mastered by Werner Haas (Univ. Innsbruck), on which you can search through all Kafka's diaries and letters for single or combined keywords. Also downloadable (ca. 6.45 Mb).
E-mail: werner.haas@univie.ac.at.
www.odaha.com/franzkafka.php
Kafka's works, calendary and drawings, biographies, illustrations, etc., in Czech.
www.franzkafka.info/main.html
Website in Czech, German, English and Spanish on big project by the Czech photographer Jan Jindra in cooperation with a.o. Josef Cermák, Rainer Stach and Hans-Gerd Koch.
www.franz-kafka.info
Site with essays, articles, creative products, theater, news, biography, bibliography, filmography, music & discography, library, and debate. Webmaster: Paco Yuste, Sevilla.
members.aon.at/rieck/
With short biography, surveys of primary and secondary literature, texts to Kafka (with download possibility) and links to other Kafka sites.
Musea, monuments, etc.
http://servertrest.trest.cz/kafka/
On Kafka monument in Triesch (also approachable through the website of Trest', its Czech name), a little town south-west of South-Bohemian Jihlava, where Kafka stayed with his uncle/physician Siegfried in 1900, 1902 and 1907 (and maybe more often). The monument has been made by the sculptor Franstisek Häckel from Triesch. A beautiful, partly animated site.
University websites
www.kafkabureau.net/index.html
'Das Virtuelle Kafka-Bureau zielt darauf ab, den transtextuellen und transmedialen Raum des Kafka'schen Werks auf der Grundlage literatur-, medien- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Konzepte als digitales Arbeitsumfeld für Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftler sowie weitere Nutzergruppen zu erschließen.'
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Benno Wagner, Universität Siegen (DE).
E-mail: wagner(at)lit-wiss.uni-siegen.de, www.benno-wagner.net.
www.fakata.de/kafka/
One of the best and most extensive Kafka sites with many text and other links, by a Finnish Germanist.
N.B.: Temporarily out of order. May return as www.kafka-verbindungen.de.
www.pitt.edu/~kafka/intro.html
Very informative and extensive site (not finished yet), built by participants of graduate seminar taught by Dr. Clark Muenzer, German Dept. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Contains (or will contain) Kafka's biography, library catalogue, primary and secondary bibliography, "Medical Humanities comments" on some stories, "hypertrip" through a short text, and links to Kafka sites, free texts and related stuff.
E-mail: kafka+@pitt.edu.
www.geo.uni-bonn.de/members/pullmann/kafka/index.shtml
Subjects (in German): Prague German literature, Screen-versions, Women, Interpretations, Reisetagebücher, Reception, Symbolism, Synchronopsis, Bibliography, Biography, Correspondence, Father Kafka, Works, Links, History, etc..
Publishers
http://www.franzkafka.de/franzkafka/home/
A.o. about the Critical Kafka edition. Subjects: Life, Works, Finds, Finds archive. In German. Maintained by Kafka biographer Reiner Stach.
kafka.chadwyck.com
>Critical edition of Kafka's works on the Internet (and on CD-ROM), published by Chadwick-Healey. In German (English version does not work).
www.textkritik.de/fka/uebersicht/uebersicht.htm
This edition is prepared by Roland Reuss and Peter Staengle, Institut für Textkritik, Heidelberg, and published by Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, Frankfurt/M.
Other general and 'one issue' websites
www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm
Site by Robert Daley. Many links: Homepages, Biographies, Bibliographies; Works Online; Kafka Entries at NYU Medical(!); Kafka at the Internet Movie Database; Other Links.
www.mujweb.cz/WWW/franz.kafka (N.B.: URL 'www.franz.kafka.zde.cz' on this page does not work)
Site in Czech, made by '(P) & (C)'. Subjects: Life, Works, Prague.
Email: kafka.franz@post.cz.
www.kafkaesk.de/hinweis.htm
By Alexander Schlegel. Subjects (in German): Kafka, Prague, Literature, News, Book market, Forum.
family.knick.net/thecastle
Chronology of Kafka's life, publications by Schocken Books, articles and the like by anonymous web master "Joseph K" himself.
victorian.fortunecity.com/vermeer/287/index.html
Named after Leni in Der Prozess. Subjects: biography, Milena Jesenská, Kafka and Judaism, Czech corner, texts, Summaries, Pictures, Some Books by and on Kafka, Kafka at the Movies, Some views on Kafka and his works, Fun with Kafka, Nabokov on 'The Metamorphosis', and links.
mitglied.lycos.de/HartmutErnst
Made by Hartmut Ernst, Münster, DE. In German. Subjects: Pictures (7 B/W portraits and caricatures of Franz Kafka), Book, Influences, Women, Kafka's readings, Literature, Prague, Kafka Quiz, Works, Zionism, Quotes.
Email: h-ernst@muenster.de.
Photographs, portraits, and illustrations
www.cs.technion.ac.il/~eckel/Kafka/kafka.html
Archive of photographs of Kafka, family, friends, and his grave in Prague. (Scanning quality is not perfect.) Made by Yacov Eckel, student at Technion, Haifa, Israel.
www.kunst.per.nl/linnartz/kafkaimg/kafka_inl.htm
www.exto.nl/gallery/page/id/313.html
Illustrations to 'Die Verwandlung' by the Dutch artist Martin Linnartz.
www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Kafka/Kafkaesque.html
Site by a certain Malek with a.o. a morphing picture, changing Kafka's face into an insect.
www.contemporary-art-uk.com/Rooney.html
'Dr. Kafka attending a performance of'Shulamith' at Café Savoy on 3rd.Oct.1912': Oil painting on canvas (72" x 48") by Mick Rooney. Used as cover for: J. Preece (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (2002).