The planned series Franz Kafkaʼs Prague corresponds to the conception of a specialized guiding tour through Prague City. In the following weeks we will present certain buildings or monuments, explain their connection to Franz Kafkaʼs life and work and give further background information to the time-context or the history of the place. Readers may be motivated to visit the described locations and to discover a special view on the golden City, which Kafka once called “a mother with claws”. 2nd stop: Oppeltův dům (The Oppelt House) Staroměststké náměstí 5 The Oppelt House, an apartment building on the corner of Staroměststké náměstí/Pařížská ulice, was built in 1897 in the course of the sanitation of Prague’s Old Town. Its architects, Otakar Materna