(one original manuscript of The Trial was auctioned in 1988 for $2 million)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Figure timeline
Max Brod
Max Brod was an Israeli author, music critic, composer, and journalist, born as a German-speaking Czech. He is notable for promoting the work of writer Franz Kafka and composer Leoš Janáček.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · Czech-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968) · linguist · composer · pianist · novelist · translator · journalist · lyricist · poet lawyer · biographer · opinion journalist · also Max Brod, Prokop, Martin Salvat, Brod
Born 27 May 1884 · Died 20 December 1968 · Q28480
22 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
6 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Award
- Award
2007· 1 entry
1968· 1 entry
Died 1968-12-20.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
1965· 3 entries
Awarded Honorary Award of the Heinrich Heine Society (1965).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Brod was awarded the Honor Gift of the Heinrich Heine Society in Düsseldorf, Germany
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and was the first Israeli citizen to be awarded it
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1964· 1 entry
Awarded Willibald-Pirckheimer-Medaille (1964).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1961· 1 entry
At the request of Kafka's heirs (the daughters of his sisters), approximately two-thirds of Kafka's papers were given to the Bodleian Library, at the University of Oxford
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1957· 1 entry
In a revised version translated by Joseph Witriol and titled Heinrich Heine: The Artist in Revolt
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1951· 1 entry
Which introduced the term "Musica Yam-tikhonit" (Mediterranean music) to define a prominent style in Israeli concert music of the era, shortly before Boskovich published essays which provided an extended definition of th
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1948· 2 entries
Awarded Bialik Prize (1948).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Brod was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1942· 1 entry
Brod published very few works
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1939· 3 entries
As the Nazis took over Prague, Brod and his wife Elsa Taussig fled to Mandatory Palestine
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
As the Nazis occupied Prague, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, taking with him a suitcase of Kafka's papers, many of them unpublished notes, diaries, and sketches
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Took with him a suitcase of Kafka's papers, many of them unpublished notes, diaries, and sketches
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #milestone
1925· 1 entry
Followed by The Castle in 1926 and Amerika in 1927), this early positive assessment was bolstered by more general critical acclaim
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1924· 1 entry
Brod was the administrator of the estate
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1918· 1 entry
Briefly served as vice-president of the Jüdischer Nationalrat
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1913· 1 entry
Together with Weltsch, he published the work Anschauung und Begriff which made him better known in Berlin and also in Leipzig, where their publisher Kurt Wolff worked
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1908· 1 entry
When he was only 24, was celebrated in Berlin literary circles as a masterpiece of expressionism
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1884· 1 entry
Born 1884-05-27.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth