ZEITGEISTER ON AIR is the Goethe-Institut’s cultural podcast that accompanies the quarterly thematic editions of ZEITGEISTER, the cultural magazine published by the Goethe-Institut. It is aimed at people with an interest in art, international perspectives, original (and even nerdy) subjects, zines and Germany. For the podcast, we invite international artists and authors to tell us about themselves. Visit goethe.de/onair for more!
ZEITGEISTER ON AIR is the Goethe-Institut’s cultural podcast that accompanies the quarterly thematic editions of ZEITGEISTER, the cultural magazine published by the Goethe-Institut. It is aimed at people with an interest in art, international perspectives, original (and even nerdy) subjects, zines and Germany. For the podcast, we invite international artists and authors to tell us about themselves. Visit goethe.de/onair for more!
Stefan Litt from the National Library of Israel talks to our host Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson about the adventurous travels of Franz Kafka’s manuscripts after his death. It was Kafka’s friend Max Brod who played the crucial role in salvaging them. First he saved them from Kafka’s last wish and did not burn them. Later he rescued them from the turmoil of World War Two: when he had to flee Prague in 1939 to escape the Nazis, he had a suitcase full of Kafka in tow. It was difficult to find a safe place to store the papers after that. In the end there followed decades of court cases on the grounds of illegal gifts and auctions at Sotheby’s. A crime thriller with … watch out for the spoiler … a happy ending.