Literature
Franz Kafka
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Studied here
Carolinum
The medieval university headquarters became a battleground over who controlled learning in Bohemia. The 1409 Kutná Hora Decree gave the Czech university nation dominant voting power, prompting many foreign masters and students to leave Prague and helping transform the university into a centre of Hussite politics.
Studied here
Former German Boys' Elementary School
He completed his first four school years at the German elementary school here.
Commemorated here
Franz Kafka Museum
The museum is best known for its dedication to the life and works of Franz Kafka.
Lived here
House at the Golden Pike
Kafka rented accommodation in the House at the Golden Pike from March 1915 to February 1917.
Lived here
House at the Minute
He spent much of his childhood here with his parents and sisters between 1889 and 1896.
Lived here
House at the Three Kings
He lived here through adolescence and his university years, from 1896 until 1907.
Studied here
House at the White Unicorn and Berta Fanta’s Salon
Kafka attended philosophical and literary discussions held in Berta Fanta’s salon.
Created here
Hunger Wall
The Hunger Wall inspired his story “The Great Wall of China.”
Lived here
Kafka House
Kafka was born on this site and spent the first two years of his life here.
Lived here
Kafka's Bílkova Street Apartment
Kafka stayed in his sister Valli's apartment here in August 1914 and again in February and March 1915.
Studied here
Klementinum
He attended German University lectures in the Klementinum during his studies from 1901 to 1906.
Burial place
New Jewish Cemetery
The New Jewish Cemetery is known for being a cultural monument established to address space issues at the Old Jewish Cemetery.
Lived here
Oppelt House
This was his parents' final Prague apartment and his intermittent home from 1913 until 1924.
Commemorated here
Rotating Head of Franz Kafka
Kafka’s face is continually fragmented and reconstructed by the sculpture’s rotating steel tiers.
Lived here
Schönborn Palace
Kafka rented an apartment in the palace from March to September 1917.
Created here
Site of the House at the Ship
He wrote “The Judgment” and “The Metamorphosis” in the family apartment that formerly stood here.
Lived here
Sixt House
Kafka lived here with his family during his early childhood, principally in 1888–1889.
Performed here
W Prague, Former Hotel Erzherzog Stefan
He publicly read “The Judgment” here on December 4, 1912.
Created here
Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute
Kafka worked here from 1908 to 1922 and authored technical reports and accident-prevention documents for the institute.
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