Kafka Revue with Anne-Dore Krohn and Denis Scheck

"I'm even known as a great laugher" - Kafka like you've never seen him!

Few people spent as much time at health spas as Franz Kafka. After being diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917, he repeatedly retreated to sanatoriums for weeks at a time. There he encountered naturopathic practices, nudism, and an ascetic way of life.

Journalist Anne-Dore Krohn and ZDF literary critic Denis Scheck present their "Kafka Revue" - a look at lesser-known facets of the Prague century-genius, putting common clichés about him to the test.

Did you know that Franz Kafka discovered a vegetarian cookbook in a sanatorium and lived by it from then on? (Cotton soup! Bread pudding!) That it was Franz Kafka who invented the answering machine? And that together with his friend Max Brod he conceived a travel book series that was something like the Lonely Planet of its day? An entertaining and surprising tour of the continent of Kafka.