The Franz Kafka Society (Czech: Společnost Franze Kafky; German: Franz-Kafka-Gesellschaft) is a non-profit organisation established in 1990 to celebrate the heritage of German Language literature in Prague.
Membership currently stands at around 1000 people globally, including Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass and the acting president of the society is Vladimír Železný.
[1] Among the stated goals of the organisation is to foster cultural pluarity among the Czech, German and Jewish people of Central Europe.
It also aims to translate the entire work of Franz Kafka into Czech.
The statue was presented in the Czech capital of Prague in 2003 where it has remained ever since.