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Dora Diamant (Dwojra Diament, also Dymant) (c. 1900 – 1952) is best remembered as the lover of the writer Franz Kafka and the person who kept some of his last writings in her possession until they were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933.
Dec 15, 2022 · Kathi Diamant is the Director of the Kafka Project at San Diego State University. For over fifteen years she has been immersed in the story of Dora Diamant, retracing Dora’s steps in Europe, discovering neglected archives and lost papers, and conducting interviews with every known living person who knew her.
Mar 9, 2021 · We know that Dora Diamant burned quite a few manuscripts on Kafka's instructions, and it is possible that the doll letters also went up in flames.
Dora Diamant - Franz Kafka. 1903-1952. The last woman in Kafka’s life, twenty years younger than Kafka, she was Jewish and hailed from the Polish town of Pabianice. She emigrated to Germany to escape from difficult family circumstances. There is uncertainty about her real date of birth.
To young Dora Diamant, working in a summer camp for Jewish children on the Baltic coast, forty-year-old Franz Kafka appeared not as a haunted, neurotic invalid but as a graceful, natural, and beautiful young man with broad shoulders, erect posture and a compelling gaze.
Aug 23, 2003 · Biography Dora Diamant was Franz Kafka's mistress - an unenviable role, one might think, rather like being Naomi Campbell's maid or the Duke of Edinburgh's wife. It is hard to imagine that there...
Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka's heart and kept his literary flame alive. It was Dora Diamant, an independent spirit who persuaded Kafka to leave his parents...
