„Der Prozess“ in Augsburg, „Die Maßnahme“ in der Kalkgrube: Zur Kafka-Rezeption Bertolt Brechts
“The Trial” in Augsburg, “The Measure” in the lime pit: Bertolt Brecht's reception

Summary/Abstract: Franz Kafka and Bertolt Brecht were always considered to be notably opposite authors within classical modernism. Research has not yet gone beyond describing more general analogies. Brecht, however, was deeply impressed by Kafka’s work. In two of his works, an “Augsburg Sonnet” and the Measure, Brecht’s most controversial drama of all, concrete references to Kafka’s novel The Trial can be proven. They give the works further complexity, even a new level of interpretation. This means that Brecht’s intensive reception of Kafka is beyond all doubt for the first time.

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