TRAVEL WITH FRANZ KAFKA & DORA DIAMANT

Join the Kafka Project’s Magical Mystery Literary History Tour to PRAGUE, KRAKOW and BERLIN on June 15-24, 2008 and help solve a literary mystery as the Kafka Project kicks off its Eastern European Summer 2008 Research Project in Poland and Germany. Starting in Prague, we will explore the city of Kafka’s birth, the places he loved, where his lingering presence is still felt. In Krakow, we will follow Dora’s life in Poland, and discover one of the most beautiful of European cities, preserved in time and untouched by war. We end in Berlin, once again, as it was in Kafka and Dora’s day, the most vibrant of Europe’s capitals, where they lived their happiest months. Led by kafka Project director Kathi Diamant, the tour will benefit the SDSU Kafka Project, a non-profit volunteer organization, funded by donations, grants and shared skills and knowledge. Space is limited, so sign up soon!  Learn more...

SOLVING A LITERARY MYSTERY

The Kafka Project is the official search to recover the last writings of Franz Kafka, working on behalf of the Kafka Estate of London, England. Under the auspices of San Diego State University's College of Arts and Letters since 1998, the Kafka Project has worked with the German government for the discovery and return of Kafka's unpublished letters and notebooks. Building on the results of the last search conducted by Max Brod and Klaus Wagenbach in the mid-1950s, the Kafka Project is a non-profit volunteer organization, funded by donations, pooling resources, skills and knowledge to resolve a literary mystery.

The missing Kafka material was confiscated from Kafka's last companion, Dora Diamant, in a Gestapo raid of her residence in Berlin in 1933. At Kafka's request, before his death, she burned some of his work. But she saved much more than she burned, including 35 letters and 20 notebooks. Learn more about Dora Diamant.