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Reiner Stach

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Reiner Stach, born 1951 in Rochlitz (Saxony), studied Philosophy, Literature and Mathematics at Frankfurt University, gaining a doctorate there with a thesis on Kafka, and then worked for several years as a editor for various publishers, including Fischer, Rowohlt and Metzler. He began working on his three-volume Kafka biography in 1996. Reiner Stach has lived in Berlin since 2009.

http://www.reinerstach.de/

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2016 Joseph Breitbach Prize
  • 2015 Bavarian Book Prize - Non-fiction
  • 2015 DAMALS Historical Book of the Year
  • 2008  Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize (Special Award)
  • 2003  Osnabrück Regional Association Cultural Advancement Prize

More Publications

Ist das Kafka? 99 Fundstücke
S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2012.
 
Kafka. Die Jahre der Erkenntnis
S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2008.
 
Kafka. Die Jahre der Entscheidungen
S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2002.
 
Kafkas erotischer Mythos. Eine ästhetische Konstruktion des Weiblichen
S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1987.

Featured Books

Book cover Kafka. The early days

Kafka. Die frühen Jahre
[Kafka. The early days]

S. Fischer Verlag

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