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Max Brod
1884–1968
A lively figure in Prague’s literary world, this German-language writer, critic, and composer is remembered both for his own work and for preserving Franz Kafka’s. His life carried him from Austro-Hungarian Prague to Tel Aviv, where he remained an important cultural voice in exile.
7 Audiobooks
Erstes Kapitel des Buches "Richard und Samuel" Die erste lange Eisenbahnfahrt (Prag-Zürich)
by Max Brod, Franz Kafka
Arnold Beer: Das Schicksal eines Juden
by Max Brod
Die Höhe des Gefühls: Ein Akt
by Max Brod
Leben mit einer Göttin : Roman
by Max Brod
Adolf Schreiber : Ein Musikerschicksal
by Max Brod
About the author
Born in Prague on May 27, 1884, Max Brod grew up in the city’s German-speaking Jewish community and became a remarkably versatile literary presence: novelist, essayist, critic, translator, and composer. He studied law and moved in the circle of writers and thinkers now often linked with early 20th-century Prague.
Brod is most widely known as Franz Kafka’s close friend, biographer, and literary executor. After Kafka’s death, he edited and published major works that Kafka had left unpublished, helping bring them to readers around the world. He also championed other artists, including the composer Leoš Janáček, and was known as an energetic mediator between different languages, cultures, and artistic worlds.
A lifelong Zionist, Brod fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1939 and settled in Tel Aviv. There he continued to write and work in journalism and the theater until his death on December 20, 1968. Although his own books are less widely read today than Kafka’s, his role in shaping modern literary history remains hard to overstate.