Reading with Michael Kumpfmüller
In the summer of 1923, Franz Kafka, a poet known only to insiders and suffering from tuberculosis, meets 25-year-old cook Dora Diamant at a Baltic resort. And within a few weeks, he does what he never thought possible: He decides to live with a woman, sharing table and bed with Dora. In Berlin, in the midst of the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic, he ventures into life with her. Despite the daily price rises, the changing lodgings and his suspicious parents, Franz Kafka and Dora Diamant would never part, apart from a few days, until his death in June 1924.
Michael Kumpfmüller turns this true story into a subtle, gentle and knowledgeable romance novel. He knows Kafka's diaries, his letters and his last texts inside out and weaves them delicately into the narrative. But he devotes just as much attention to Dora's perspective, the young woman in love's view of her enigmatic, dying husband. And so Kumpfmüller succeeds in creating a deeply moving parable about life and love, writing and death.
The bestseller "The Glory of Life" by Michael Kumpfmüller was made into a film by Georg Maas and Judith Kaufmann and has been showing in cinemas since March 14.
Tickets from 09.09.24 at the city library in the Schweriner Höfe: 10,00 Euro advance booking/ 12,00 € box office
A joint event of the Schwerin City Library and the Friends of the Schwerin City Library e. V.
