Eva Gritzmann und Denis Scheck. Kafkas Kochbuch.

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06.11.2025, Thursday, 7:30 pm
Eva Gritzmann and Denis Scheck. Kafka's cookbook.
Author reading and discussion in the series: New German Literature

Franz Kafka drove everyone crazy with his eating habits. He was inspired by a legendary cookbook. Eva Gritzmann and Denis Scheck reissue this extraordinary and now completely forgotten vegetarian cookbook and comment on it from their perspective as a doctor and literary critic.
Who wouldn't fancy a "beet and rapeseed salad" or "whey curd dumplings with soy butter"? Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke and Franz Kafka were all guests at Dr. Lahman's sanatorium near Dresden. The Hygienic Cookbook for use by former spa guests reads as if Yotam Ottolenghi and Alice Waters had written a vegetarian cookbook for our times. It goes to the heart of modern nutritional medicine and contains numerous recipes that make you want to cook and enjoy. Gritzmann and Scheck also skillfully establish links to the work of Franz Kafka. In passing, they also provide a key to Kafka's life and his literary texts, from The Hunger Artist to the Letter to His Father.

Denis Scheck was born in Stuttgart on December 15, 1964. As his parents moved with the eight-year-old boy to a remote village near Stuttgart, he came to reading out of sheer boredom due to a lack of intellectual stimulation in the countryside. Denis Scheck is a German literary critic, translator and radio and television journalist.

Eva Gritzmann studied business administration and medicine after completing a banking apprenticeship. Today she works as a doctor in Stuttgart. Together with Denis Scheck, she has published several culinary books.

Admission: EUR 12,-/8,- (reduced)
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