![]() “The anguish this book gives off is at moments almost unbearable for how can one help but say to oneself: this hounded creature is I?” André Gide ![]() Kafka wrote later in a journal entry that the meeting felt to him like a “law… Articles In briefģ0 June – 28 August 2017 Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin It was at the Askanischer Hof, on 12 July 1914, that the legendary conversation took place between Franz Kafka and Felice Bauer, her sister Erna and friend Grete Bloch, after which the engagement between Kafka and Felice Bauer was broken off. Stresemannstraße 111, in the immediate vicinity of the Gropiusbau (Stresemannstraße 110, then Königgrätzer Straße), was once the site of the Hotel Askanischer Hof. The Berlin presentation is based on the 2013/2014 exhibition “The Entire Trial” at the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, one of the collections of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. ![]() ![]() It will be displayed page by page in the order given to it by Kafka’s friend, executor and editor, Max Brod. The Entire Trial 30 June – 28 August 2017 Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin “The anguish this book gives off is at moments almost unbearable for how can one help but say to oneself: this hounded creature is I?” André Gide More than 100 years after it was written, the complete handwritten manuscript of Franz Kafka’s famous novel The Trial is going on show at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. ![]()
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