2008 AD., Germany, Federal Republic, 125th anniversary Birth of Franz Kafka commemorative, Karlsruhe mint, 10 Euro, KM 271.

Germany, Federal Republic, 125th anniversary Birth of Franz Kafka commemorative, engraver: Frantisek Chochola, Karlsruhe mint, 2008 AD., issued 10/07/2008,
10 Euro (ø 32,5 mm / 18,04 g), 0.925 silver, 18,00 g theor. mint weight, mintage 1.760.000 , axes medal alignment ↑↑, plain, immerged lettered edge,
Obv.: BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND / G / 10 EURO 2008 , issuing state, mint mark, value and date around German national emblem eagle, 12 stars left of eagle.
Rev.: FRANZ KAFKA 1883-1924 , his portrait facing, surrounded by one of his texts, St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague to left.
Edge: plain with immerged inscription "EIN KÄFIG GING EINEN VOGEL SUCHEN . " (translated: "A cage went looking for a bird . ")
KM 271 ; Jaeger 536 ; Schön 265 .
white, distant background, a more direct illumination

Year / Mint Mark / Mintage
2008 / G / 1.500.000
2008 / G / 260.000 (proof issue)

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing.
Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education he was employed with an insurance company, forcing him to relegate writing to his spare time. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote hundreds of letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained and formal relationship. He died in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.
Franz Kafka had recorded aphorisms on small pieces of paper and put them together in re-writing. "A cage went looking for a bird" bears the number 16.

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert (Czech: metropolitní katedrála svatého Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha) is a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Up to 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral.
This cathedral is an excellent example of Gothic architecture and is the biggest and most important church in the country. Located within Prague Castle and containing the tombs of many Bohemian kings and Holy Roman Emperors, the cathedral is under the ownership of the Czech government as part of the Prague Castle complex.

more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vitus_Cathedral