Franz Kafka in Prague House of the Minute Franz Kafka lived in
this building, called the House at the Minute, near the Old Town
Square in Prague, from 1889 to 1896. Kafka was a writer, whose
most famous book is entitled The Trial. Church of Our Lady Franz
Kafka lived at one time in a house behind the Church of Our Lady
of Tyn. He worked as an insurance clerk for most of his life and
died of tuberculosis at the age of 40. His 3 sisters died in the
Holocaust. Kafka is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague.
Location of the Birth place of Franz Kafka in Prague A Plaque
marks the spot where Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 above
the Batalion Schnapps bar at the corner of Maiselova and Kaprova
streets. The original building has long since been torn down.
Kafka's most famous works, The Castle and The Trial were not
published until after his death on June 3, 1924. The Nazis
banned his books in 1933. After the 1968 Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia, his books were not published again until 1990,
after the fa