jerre

he/him | my art: tumblr.com/leichenmaler rotting centuries, culture, sorrow and kafka. germanistics/history student

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introductory

greetings 🎻 my name is jerre, i am a student for eternity. on this blog you will find decaying culture; from art over literature to history - with many franz kafkas in between...

my art: @leichenmaler

in-character oc-blog: @trostloski

🪳 posts about franz kafka

📚 my bookshelf

🪗 my music

🏚 my odysseys

unless you're a creep - DMs are always open. i speak german, russian, english - and am learning yiddish 🐫

until then - thank you for coming by and i hope you stumble over something likeable!🪑

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franz kafka in zürau/siřem

local memorial commemorating him and the cat, that saved him from mice during his stay in zürau at ottla's.

from right to left: franz kafka, his secretary julie kaiser, his sister ottla – who worked on the zürauer estate (see the zürauer escapade), cousin irma and helper marenka. (november 1917)

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today, i watched the new kafka movie. despite me missing dora dymant, i really enjoyed the artistic, surreal narrative techniques of kafka's life, literary work and his present day reception. may write a more detailed review at some point – unfortunately i am very busy with studies currently.

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tell me my prof didn’t upload the reading by photocopying his kindle reader page by page

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bruh

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himmlischer geburtstag - happy birthday

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this day 101 years ago, kafka passed away just a month before his 41st birthday. the picture shows the german & czech versions of his death notice. i tried to translate it:

"with deepest pain we announce, that our son JUDr. (doctor of law) franz/františek kafka, died on the 3rd of june in the sanatorium of kierling at vienna, aged 41 years.

his burial will be on the 11th june at 4:45 pm at the jewish cemetery in straschnitz."

~ prague, the 10th june 1924.

~ hermann and julie kafka (the parents) in the name of the bereaved. we ask you to refrain from condolence visits."

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Otto Dix

self-portrait with Muse

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i've seen that artwork in bielefeld last year!

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memorial to the hildesheim synagogue

on my visit to hildesheim, i've came across this art-piece, which pays tribute to the synagogue, that once stood on this ground & was destroyed in the reichspogromnacht of the 9th november in 1938. created in 1988, it depicts both biblical imagery, as well as painful memories of the shoah. read more here.

this was the synagogue, before it was burned down.

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— March 23, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

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me and any uni-paper

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franz kafka does his work lying on bed like schoolgirl - animated adaptation of that one meme that circulated the internet... / september 2024.

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collage with my art of franz kafka 🪳 (2022-2024)

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my kafka-collage so far

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dora dymant (1898-1952)

dora, born in pabianice (poland) on the 4th of march 1898, is known for being franz kafka's last lover. they met in 1923 at the baltic-sea, where dora worked in a summer-camp for children, and where kafka had his vacation.

soon after they moved together to berlin. kafka finally left behind both his family, as well as prague. it was his break-out. however his health-condition worsened and he died in her arms on the 3rd of june 1924.

but dora's life didn't end here: she worked as an actress in the theatre and joined the communist party of germany (kpd). in 1933 the gestapo raided her home and has stolen multiple belongings, including some of kafka's remaining notes and letters. to this day, they are lost. meanwhile, she got married and gave birth to her daughter: franziska marianne lask.

in 1936, dora escaped germany, first to the soviet union, afterwards to britain, where she was imprisoned for a year, interned as an "enemy alien".

after the war she stayed in london, lecturing yiddish stories and writing essays. she died there of kidney-failure on the 15th august 1952. she is remembered by her family:

"who knows dora, knows what love means."

more photos of dora

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happy heavenly birthday dora 🤍

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franz kafka & margarete kirchner, daughter of the janitor at goethe's residence.

kafka & max brod visited the deceased author's home in the summer of 1912, read more.

franz had a crush on margarete, hence he visited the residence often and she made it possible the two visitors could look into the home offside of the opening-times.

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peter lorre cameo in "duckman"

from the episode "noir gang" (season 3 episode 1, 1996)

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updated klezmer playlist

thought to post other playlists of mine. have this klezmer (and similiar) compilation, which i listen to in a continuous loop 🎻🎵

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playlist with songs referencing franz kafka

i have made this playlist with songs, that reference franz kafka. some of them are german, with half-humorous easter-eggs about the author. others are pretty solid though! gladly leave more titles about kafka or his literary works in the notes, so i can add those to the playlist 🎻🪗