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The literary expedition to discover Kafka’s lost work leaves for Eastern Europe in June. Researchers will search for and discover repositories of Third Reich documents which, until recently, have been locked behind the Iron Curtain. The Project hopes to locate the path to unpublished notebooks and letters, written during the final year of Kafka’s life.

The Kafka Project needs donors, underwriters and financial business partners in this critical and long-awaited quest. The bare-bones budget for the Kafka Project research in Eastern Europe is $37,000. This includes personnel, transportation, lodging, administrative and translation costs. The Kafka Project is funded entirely by donations and grants. We need your help now at this critical time. Learn more ….

ARMCHAIR TRAVEL WITH FRANZ KAFKA & DORA DIAMANT

You can follow the adventures of 22 intrepid travelers on the Kafka Project’s Magical Mystery Literary History Tour to PRAGUE, KRAKOW and BERLIN on June 15-24, 2008. Kafka Project Director Kathi Diamant will be blogging the tour on KPBS.org, and reporting on the following month of research in Eastern Europe. The tour is benefiting the SDSU Kafka Project’s 2008 Summer Research in Eastern Europe.   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and Letters since 1998, the Kafka Project has worked with the German government for the discovery and return of Kafka's unpublished letters and notebooks.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.