However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and Franz Kafka in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in their work that they have become synonymous with the term to the point of popular joking and cartoons today.

Many of the literary works of Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdity of the world.

The Trial ( Kafka's original German title:, later as and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925.

Category: Novels by Franz Kafka

* Franz Kafka ( 1883 – 1924 ).

For Intervista, produced by Ibrahim Moussa and RAI Television, Fellini intercut memories of the first time he visited Cinecittà in 1939 with present-day footage of himself at work on a screen adaptation of Franz Kafka ’ s Amerika.

Category: Franz Kafka scholars

* Franz Kafka

* 1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-German writer ( d. 1924 )

Arcimboldo will notably influence German painter Michael Mathias Prechtl ( 1929-2003 ) in his portrait of Franz Kafka

He combined intellectual and cultural influences from East and West-his own exposure to the literarature of non-Egyptian culture began in his youth with the enthusiastic consumption of Western detective stories, Russian classics, and such modernist writers as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and James Joyce.

In 1971, the Arab-American scholar Ihab Hassan published The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature, an early work of literary criticism from a postmodern perspective, in which the author traces the development of what he calls " literature of silence " through Marquis de Sade, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Beckett, and many others, including developments such as the Theatre of the Absurd and the nouveau roman.

* The Trial ( 1925 ) by Franz Kafka

* The Castle ( 1926 ) by Franz Kafka

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

Two important authors of short stories in the German language were Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.

* Franz Kafka – novelist

* July 3 – Franz Kafka, Austrian writer ( d. 1924 )

In addition, the German-language students included prominent individuals such as future writers Max Brod, Franz Kafka, and Johannes Urzidil.

The essay contains an appendix titled " Hope and the Absurd in the work of Franz Kafka ".

Modern authors from the Czech territory who wrote in other languages ( e. g. German ) are however sometimes considered separately, thus Franz Kafka, for example, who wrote in German ( though he was also fluent in Czech ), is often considered part of Austrian or German literature.

The couple also took a mutual interest in the work of such authors as the Marquis de Sade ( 1740 – 1814 ), Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 1881 ), Franz Kafka ( 1883 – 1924 ) and Jean Genet ( 1910 – 1986 ), all of whose works explored the themes of sex and violence.

In 1917, Franz Kafka wrote in The Silence of the Sirens, " Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence.

* 1870 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer ( d. 1948 )

* 1905 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal ( d. 2004 )

* 1644 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer ( d. 1704 )

* 1758 – Franz Teyber, Austrian organist and composer ( d. 1810 )

* 1819 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer ( d. 1895 )

The success of his opera Tarare was such that it was soon translated into Italian at Joseph II behest by Lorenzo Da Ponte as Axur, Re d ' Ormus ( Axur, King of Hormuz ) and staged at the royal wedding of Franz II in 1788.

* 1756 – Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria ( d. 1801 )

* 1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician ( d. 1789 )

* 1906 – Franz Waxman, German film composer ( d. 1967 )

* 1819 – Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer ( d. 1870 )

* 1874 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer ( d. 1939 )

* 1724 – Franz Aepinus, German scientist ( d. 1802 )

* 1836 – Franz von Lenbach, German painter ( d. 1904 )

Dollfuss was assassinated on July 25, 1934, by ten Austrian Nazis ( Paul Hudl, Franz Holzweber, Otto Planetta and others ) of Regiment 89 who entered the Chancellery building and shot him in an attempted coup d ' état, the July Putsch.

* 1920 – Arthur Franz, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1675 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician ( d. 1750 )

* 1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor ( d. 1783 )

* 1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography ( d. 1849 )

* 1791 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer ( d. 1872 )

* 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist ( d. 1899 )

* 1663 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist ( d. 1738 )

* 1858 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist ( d. 1942 )

* 1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer ( d. 1844 )

* 1850 – Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer ( d. 1924 )