1910 Member of circle of intellectuals (Mrs. Berta Fanta).
March: Publication of five prose pieces in
May: Beginning of the
Yiddish theater company from Eastern Europe performs.
October: Paris, with Max and Otto Brod.
December: Berlin.
1911 January-February: Business trip to Friedland and Reichenberg.
Summer: Zurich, Lugano, Milan, Paris (with Max Brod). Plans to work with Brod on a novel, 'Richard and Samuel.'
Alone in a sanatorium in Erlenbach near Zurich. Travel diaries.
Writes 'Measures to Prevent Accidents [in Factories and Farms]' and 'Workers' Accident Insurance and Management.'
1911-12 Winter: Yiddish theater company. Friendship with Yiddish actor Isak Lowy; study of Jewish folklore; beginning of a sketch on Lowy.
1911-14 Working on
1912 First studies of Judaism (H. Graetz, M. I. Pines).
February: Gives lecture on the Yiddish language.
July: Weimar (Goethe's town, with Max Brod), then alone in the Harz Mountains (Sanatorium Just). Meets Ernst Rowohlt and Kurt Wolff, joint managers of Rowohlt Verlag.
August 13: Meets Felice Bauer from Berlin, in the house of Max Brod's father in Prague.
August 14: Manuscript of
September 20: Beginning of correspondence with Felice Bauer.
September 22-23: 'The Judgment' written.
September-October: Writes 'The Stoker' (or 'The Man Who Disappeared') which later became first chapter of
October 1912 to February 1913: Gap in the diaries.
November: 'The Metamorphosis' written.
1913 January: Publication of
February 1913 to July 1914: Lacuna in productivity.
Easter: First visit to Felice Bauer in Berlin.
Spring: Publication of
May: Publication of 'The Stoker.'
September: Journey to Vienna, Venice, Riva. At Riva, friendship with 'the Swiss girl.'
November: Meeting with Crete Bloch, friend of Felice Bauer. Beginning of correspondence with her. [She becomes mother of his son, who died before reaching the age of seven, and of whom K. never knew.]
1914 Easter: In Berlin.
April: Engagement to Felice Bauer in Berlin.
July 12: Engagement broken.
Summer: 'Memoirs of the Kalda Railroad' written. Hellerau, Lubeck, Marienlyst on the Baltic (with Ernst Weiss).
October: 'In the Penal Colony' written.
Fall: Begins writing
Winter: 'Before the Law' (part of
1915 January: Renewed meeting with Felice Bauer (in Bodenbach).
Continues working on
Receives Fontane Prize for 'The Stoker.'
February: Moves from parents' home into rented rooms: Bilekgasse and Langengasse.
Journey to Hungary with sister Elli.
November: Publication of
December (and January 1916): 'The Village Schoolmaster' ['The Giant Mole'] written.
Meets Georg Mordecai Langer.
1916 July: Meeting with Felice Bauer in Marienbad.
August 20: Draws up a list of reasons for and against marriage.
