![]() Suffering symptoms of the tuberculosis that was to lead to his death, Kafka broke the engagement again in December that year. Īfter difficult communication, again mostly in letters, and spending ten days together in Marienbad in July 1916, they met for a second engagement on 12 July 1917, planning to marry soon and live together in Prague. The engagement took place on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, Sunday, in the presence of Kafka's parents and sister Ottla, but was broken a few weeks later, in August. They met again for Easter of 1913, and he proposed marriage in a letter at the end of July that year. He dedicated to her his short story " The Judgment" (also translated "The Verdict"), which he had written the night of 22 September 1912. Soon after the meeting he began to send her almost daily letters, expressing disappointment if she did not respond as frequently. As I was taking my seat I looked at her closely for the first time, by the time I was seated I already had an unshakeable opinion. Blonde, somewhat straight, unattractive hair, strong chin. (I alienate myself from her a little by inspecting her so closely. Looked very domestic in her dress although, as it turned out, she by no means was. Bony, empty face that wore its emptiness openly. I was not at all curious about who she was, but rather took her for granted at once. When I arrived at Brod's on 13 August, she was sitting at the table. A week after the meeting, on 20 August, Kafka entered in his diary: Brod's sister Sophie was married to a cousin of Felice's Felice was in Prague on a trip to Budapest to visit her sister Else. Kafka įelice met Franz Kafka in Prague on 13 August 1912, when he visited his friend Max Brod and his wife. She contributed substantially to the income of her family. In April 1915 she began working at the Technische Werkstätte Berlin. She worked in marketing and represented the company at trade fairs. One year later, she moved to the Carl Lindström Company, a manufacturer of gramophones and "Parlographs", then the most advanced dictation machines. From 1909 on, she worked as a stenographer at the Berlin record company Odeon. įelice began attending a Handelsschule, a vocational school for commerce, but had to give it up in 1908 because her family could not afford it. 1850–1914) was an insurance agent, her mother Anna, née Danziger (1849–1930) was the daughter of a local dyer. Felice Bauer (18 November 1887 – 15 October 1960) was a fiancée of Franz Kafka, whose letters to her were published as Letters to Felice.įelice Bauer was born in Neustadt in Upper Silesia (today Prudnik), into a Jewish family.
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