Franz Kafka: "Drawn in the dark with chalk..." - Scenes of a love affair

In his staged reading, actor TILL KRABBE paints a very personal and sensitive portrait of the lovers: Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenskà. Both their longing for security and at the same time Kafka's fear of being too close are the main motifs of this love letter and can also be found, albeit in code, in Kafka's short prose and his stories.
Interwoven into the correspondence as scenes, these poems reveal their mysteriousness and also reveal a great scenic power.

"And it is certainly something blasphemous to build on a person in this way, and that is why the fear of the foundations creeps in, but it is not the fear of you, but the fear of daring to build in this way at all."
Kafka to Milena

"Is it possible that this person feels something that is not right? He knows ten thousand times more about the world than all the people in the world. This fear of his was right."
Milena to Max Brod

From Kafka's letters to Milena, from Milena's letters to Max Brod, Milena's obituary for Franz Kafka and the stories:
An Imperial Message; The Departure; In the Gallery; The Bachelor's Misfortune; Little Fable; The Rejection; The Trip to the Mountains; The Next Village; The Trees; Scattered Looking Out; The Blow at the Court Gate; At Night.