Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann , Austrian poetess and short story writer born with Klagenfurt in Carinthie the June 25th 1926, and died with Rome the October 17th 1973.

After having begun studies of right, it is devoted to the letters and the Philosophie and obtains its doctorate of philosophy in 1950 with a thesis entitled: “The reception criticizes existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger.”

As much of German-speaking writers of the immediate post-war period, it begins its career of poetess inside the Groupe 47. It receives remainder the price of Group 47 for its first collection of poems, the time authorized ( Die Gestundete Zeit ), in 1953.

Its radiophonic poems and parts receive at the same time a critical success and a passion of the public, and ensure a great fame in the German-speaking world to him. Through its poems, she seeks, in accordance with the objective of Group 47, to renew the language: one does not build “a new world without a new language”. Another set of themes purely bachmannienne emerges slowly: love and its inherent relational violence, incommunicability in the couple; but also, tragedy of the female existence.

The session of Group 47 of 1958, known as Grossholzleute , sees the emergence of a female fringe carried out by Bachmann, Ilse Aichinger and other auteures. Group 47 was to release the Men of the words dirtied by the Nazis, and to help them to write a new world. It will also be useful, are said, to clean the language of the words whose the men are useful themselves to speak about the women on their behalf, and thus, to usurp their place - and to conceal their passions. It is the beginning of an original literary attempt and revolutionist to write the Love, that the women feel with their words with them - not those manufactured by centuries of male authors (see on this topic the news of Bachmann, “Ondine”, in the collection the thirtieth year : Das dreißigste Jahr ).

This change of “political” objective, from literary set of themes, as well as the passage of the poem to the news, will break the bond between Bachmann and the public.

From 1958 with 1962, Ingeborg Bachmann shares her life with the German Swiss writer max Frisch, met in Frankfurt. They live between Rome and Frankfurt.

In 1959, it inaugurates, like first invited professor, the Pulpit of Poetic of the University of Francfort-sur-le-Main, created by this university to make it possible a writer of German language to expose its “poetic art to it”. Of the six conferences initially envisaged (of November 1959 in February 1960), Ingeborg Bachmann will give only five of them. Their title: “Questions of contemporary poetry.”

It receives in 1964 the prestigious Büchner price for its poems, and composes for the reception of this one its text: Berlin, a place of chances .

Malina (first tome cheese of the tetralogy Kinds of dead : Todesarten ), published in 1971, will be also its last work published of alive sound: the sudden death of Bachmann will leave its work in building site. This novel was to be the first shutter in the result of a “female” effort of restoration of the language - such as, for a long time, Bachmann considered it.

Ingeborg Bachmann dies indeed, burned alive in her hotel room to Rome, the October 17th 1973. It is of an accident, or what Stig Dagerman called the “industrial accident” of the writer: the Suicide? The thesis most probable remainder that of the accident, but certain elements would be mysterious.

The work of Ingeborg Bachmann is divided into two shares: that of the poetic success of the beginning (1953-1958), in original forms; with its continuation (of 1958 until its death), that of work romantic, more personal, irréductiblement female, of the rough-casting of German and his literature - this second unfinished work being left by its tragic death.

Bachmann also collaborated with his/her friend the type-setter Hans Werner Henze in the writing of the booklet of the opera of this one: Der Junge Lord (the young Lord); who is, of all the musical work of Henze, his opera more known and more appreciated.

Works

  • the authorized time ( Die gestundete Zeit , 1953), collection of poems;

  • the cicadas ( Die Zikaden , 1955), radiophonic part;
  • Invocation in Large Ourse ( Aufrufung of Großen Bären , 1956), collection of poems;
  • the good god of Manhattan ( Der Gute Got von Manhattan , 1958), radiophonic part;
  • the thirtieth year ( Das dreißigste Jahr , 1961), collection of news;
  • Berlin, a place of chances ( Ein Ort für Zufälle , 1965), 1987 (with drawings of Fatty Günter), short text;
  • Malina (1971), 1973, Romance;
  • Three paths towards the lake ( Simultan , 1972), 1982, collection of news;
  • Franza ( Der Fall Franza , 1979), novel;
  • Requiem for Fanny Goldmann ( Requiem für Fanny Goldmann , 1979), novel;
  • Lessons of Frankfurt ( Frankfurter Vorlesungen , 1980), collection of five texts of conferences.

See too

  • Germanic Literature

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