Ingeborg Bachmann

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Overview

Ingeborg Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, Carinthia on June 25, 1926. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Insbruck, Graz, and Vienna. In 1949 she received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna with her dissertation entitled "The Critical Reception of the Existential Philosophy of Martin Heidegger."^[1] Carinthia (German: Kärnten, Italian: Carinzia, Slovenian: Koroška) is an Austrian state or Land, located in the south of Austria. ... The philosopher Socrates about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court. ... Psychology (from Greek: ψυχή, psukhē, spirit, soul; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is an academic / applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior of humans and animals. ... Philology, etymologically, is the love of words. ... Lady Justice or Justitia is a personification of the moral force that underlies the legal system (particularly in Western art). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) (pronounced ) was a highly influential German philosopher. ...

After graduating, Bachmann worked as a scriptwriter and editor at the Austrian radio station Rot-Weiss-Rot, a job that enabled her to obtain an overview of contemporary literature and also supplied her with a decent income, making possible proper literary work. Furthermore, her first radio plays were published by the station. Her literary career was enhanced by contact with Hans Weigel (literateur and sponsor of young post-war literature) and the legendary literary circle known as Gruppe 47, whose members also included Ilse Aichinger, Paul Celan, Heinrich Böll, Marcel Reich-Ranicki and Günter Grass. Radio drama, which had its greatest popularity in the U. S. and in most other countries before the widespread access to television programming, depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story in her or his minds eye--in this sense, it resembles reading... The Gruppe 47 (Group 47) was a literary association in Germany after WW II. // Early history The beginnings reach back to 1946 when Alfred Andersch and Walter Kolbenhoff founded the literary magazine Der Ruf (The Call) in Munich. ... Ilse Aichinger is (or was) an Austrian Jewish poet. ... Paul Celan Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970) was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era. ... A monument of Heinrich Böll in Berlin Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one of Germanys foremost post-World War II writers. ... Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born 2 June 1920, at WÅ‚ocÅ‚awek, Poland) is a famous German literary critic, and a member of the literary group Gruppe 47. ... Günter Wilhelm Grass (born October 16, 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author. ...

In 1953, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she spent the large part of the following years working on poems, essays, opera libretti and short stories which soon brought with them international fame and numerous awards. Her relationship with Max Frisch (Swiss author, 1911-1991) took her to Switzerland and bestowed the role of the second protagonist in Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein upon her. Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the most representative writers of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of personal identity, morality and political commitment. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...

Bachmann's work primarily focuses on themes like personal boundaries, establishment of the truth, and philosophy of language, the latter in the tradition of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Her doctoral dissertation expresses her growing disillusionment with Heidegerrian Existentialism, which was in part resolved through her growing interest in Wittgenstein, whose Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus significantly influenced her relationship to language. Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. ... Wittgenstein and Hitler in school photograph taken at the Linz Realschule in 1903. ... Book cover of the Dover edition of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ogden translation) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length work published by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. ...

Ingeborg Bachmann died in a Roman hospital three weeks after a fire in her bedroom, on October 17, 1973. The real cause of her death remains unsolved. Rumors have persisted that she did not succumb to the burns but to her long habit of compulsive pill-taking, which was prevented by the stay in hospital.

The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

The prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, awarded yearly in Klagenfurt, is named after her. The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, awarded yearly in Klagenfurt, Austria during a publicized event which lasts several days, is one of the most important awards for German literature. ...

Selected works

• "Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann," translated and introduced by Peter Filkins, published by Zephyr Press, 2006. Bilingual on facing pages.
• Last Living Words: The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader, translated by Lilian M. Friedberg, published by Green Integer, 2005
• Letters to Felician (letters to an imaginary correspondent, written 1945, published posthumously). Edited & translated into English by Damion Searls. Green Integer Books, 2004.
• Die gestundete Zeit (lyric poetry, 1953)
• Die Zikaden (radio play, 1955)
• Anrufung des Grossen Bären (lyric poetry, 1956)
• Der gute Gott von Manhattan (radio play, 1958)
• "Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar" (poetological speech at a German presentation of awards, 1959)
• "Frankfurter Vorlesungen" (lecture on problems of contemporary literature, 1959)
• Das dreißigste Jahr (story volume, 1961)
• Malina (novel, 1971) Translated into English by Philip Boehm. Holmes & Meier, 1999.
• Simultan (story volume, 1972)
• Todesarten (novel-cycle project, unfinished)

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Reference

See also

• List of Austrian writers
• List of Austrians