The Trial

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre. She has worked on Kafka for over twenty years and is one of the leading authorities on his work, and author of Kafka and Photography (OUP 2007), The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (CUP 2013) and Franz Kafka in Context (CUP 2017).

In 2024 she will co-curate Kafka Global, a major public Kafka exhibition at the Bodleian Library Oxford and a Kafka arts festival featuring several newly commissioned works in drama, dance, literature and music.

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre. She has worked on Kafka for over twenty years and is one of the leading authorities on his work, and author of Kafka and Photography (OUP 2007), The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (CUP 2013) and Franz Kafka in Context (CUP 2017).

In 2024 she will co-curate Kafka Global, a major public Kafka exhibition at the Bodleian Library Oxford and a Kafka arts festival featuring several newly commissioned works in drama, dance, literature and music.