Franz Kafka ordered that his manuscripts be burned after death, but Max Brod made them available to the public. The lawyer Ulrich Fischer now asks: How is this actually legal?
Franz Kafka’s last wish was that his manuscripts be burned (“restless and unread”), and Kafka’s last wish was, as is well known and fortunately: brazenly disregarded. And now, a hundred years later, things are getting bizarre again and, at least for law and/or Kafka nerds, a little amusing: The long-time Frankfurt lawyer and literary critic Ulrich Fischer has a short (108 pages) that is somewhere between legal meticulousness and recognizable Written with a desire for the absurd, legal discussions shimmering – was that okay?