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Podcast Zeitgeister On Air

Our hosts Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson and Dina Elsayed chat to international Kafka experts from every corner of the world and hear the Kafka stories they are keen to share with us.

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Psycho test Which Kafka character are you?

If you were a character from one of Kafka’s novels, which one would you be? Maybe her – the beguiling Fräulein Bürstner? Answer a few questions to find out in our psycho test.

Illustration by Beatrice Davies  Drawing of Kafka's novel character: Fräulein Bürstner

Kafka’s Highlight of the Week

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A short story for radio Holidays Forever

This radio prose story by Sascha Ehlert is set in a hotel room, Ella Fitzgerald is singing on the radio, everything is calm and peaceful – until suddenly something extraordinary happens.

Photo: Travis Fullerton, © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Hotel room designed after a painting by Edward Hopper

A look back The nine coolest radio devices

Don’t radios all look more or less the same? Quite the contrary, as the history of the radio goes to show: a look back at its many past permutations reveals some remarkable contraptions whose designs were often way ahead of their time.

© Theredmonkey/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA-3.0/ Bang & Olufsen Beolit 39

Culture of Remembrance History for teenagers

Ulrike Jensen is the head of Youth Education at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in Hamburg. In this interview, she talks about changes over the past few decades and how history can be imparted in a way that speaks to young people.

photo (detail): © picture alliance/dpa/Markus Scholz Schoolgirls on a tour of Neuengamme Concentration Camp looking at a historical Reichsbahn freight wagon, once packed with load after load of new arrivals, which serves as a symbolic stand-in for the former railway station at the camp.

Hasnain Kazim Beware, Democracy!

There’s nothing better than democracy; Hasnain Kazim is convinced of that. He also knows that it cannot be had without effort, without balance and, above all, without a fight.

mauritius images / age fotostock / Don Johnston Fights are Good! Polar Bears in Manitoba, Canada


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