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Herzzeit

Correspondence
Edited and annotated by Bertrand Badiou, Hans Höller, Andrea Stoll and Barbara Wiedemann
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Herzzeit / Herzzeit
Correspondence
Edited and annotated by Bertrand Badiou, Hans Höller, Andrea Stoll and Barbara Wiedemann
The Literary Sensation of 2008
»Books of this stature appear only every few decades.« Deutschlandradio


The correspondence from the period 1948-61 – a last letter penned by Celan is dated June 1967 – is moving testimony: firstly of the discourse of a love in the age after Auschwitz, with all the symptomatic disturbances and crises caused by the conflicting origins of the correspondents and their hard-to-reconcile designs for living – as a woman, as a man, as writers....
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»Books of this stature appear only every few decades.« Deutschlandradio


The correspondence from the period 1948-61 – a last letter penned by Celan is dated June 1967 – is moving testimony: firstly of the discourse of a love in the age after Auschwitz, with all the symptomatic disturbances and crises caused by the conflicting origins of the correspondents and their hard-to-reconcile designs for living – as a woman, as a man, as writers. Equally, however, it is a struggle for friendship or at least some kind of relationship. Supplementary to the almost two hundred documents of their communications, the volume of collected correspondence now includes the exchange of letters between Ingeborg Bachmann and Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, as well as that of Paul Celan and Max Frisch.

»Scarcely more breathlessly and desperately can two lovers ever have struggled for words. Little known among German literary historians, the relationship between these two poets amounts to one of the most dramatic and momentous occurrences in German literature.« FAZ

»A model of editing and annotation.« Weltwoche

»Elemental and of core importance to post-war German literary history” and “a dramatic, devastating document of life leaving no reader cold« Der Tagesspiegel
 

»From neither Bachmann nor Celan had one read anything like this before.« Süddeutsche Zeitung

»Scarcely more breathlessly and desperately can two lovers ever have struggled for words. Little known among German literary historians, the relationship between these two poets amounts to one of the most dramatic and momentous occurrences in German literature.« FAZ

»A model of editing and annotation.« Weltwoche

»Elemental and of core importance to post-war German literary history” and “a dramatic, devastating document of life leaving no reader cold«...
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Ingeborg Bachmann was born on June 25, 1926 in Klagenfurt. She began to write when she was at school. She studied Philosophy in Innsbruck, Graz and eventually in Vienna, where she met, among others, Hans Weigel. In 1949 Bachmann wrote her dissertation entitled »The Critical Reception of the Existential Philosophy of Martin Heidegger«. She subsequently started working for the Allied radio station Rot-Weiss-Rot. Her friendship with Paul Celan majorly influenced her thought. Ingeborg Bachmann is considered one of the most important German-language poets and writes of the 20th century. She died in Rome on October 17, 1973 .
 

Ingeborg Bachmann was born on June 25, 1926 in Klagenfurt. She began to write when she was at school. She studied Philosophy in Innsbruck, Graz...

Paul Celan was born in Czernowitz in 1920 and passed away in Paris in April 1970. He is internationally recognized as one of the most important authors of the 20th century.

Paul Celan was born in Czernowitz in 1920 and passed away in Paris in April 1970. He is internationally recognized as one of the most important...


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Year of Publication: 2023
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Year of Publication: 2022
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Invocation of Ursa Major
Year of Publication: 2022
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The Thirtieth Year
Year of Publication: 2020
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2020

In 1956, at 30 years of age, Ingeborg Bachman began with the first drafts for the book, which is now to published in the Salzburger Bachmann Edition. It would take five years until all seven stories had been submitted to Piper Verlag ready for publication in the spring of 1961 and the first volume could be published in July that same year.


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Year of Publication: 2019
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Questionnaire
Year of Publication: 2019
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2019

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Year of Publication: 2018

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Year of Publication: 2018
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Year of Publication: 2018
Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2018

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Year of Publication: 2017
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Year of Publication: 2017
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Ignorance as State Security?
Year of Publication: 2015
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2015
In his final typescript, in a deeply personal way and in a novel literary form, Max Frisch engaged with the national scandal that rocked Switzerland in 1989 and 1990: almost a million Swiss citizens had been under State surveillance during the Cold War. On individualised index cards or »fiches« the Attorney General’s Office created a chronicle of suspicion, whose grotesque banality served...
From the Berlin Journal
Year of Publication: 2014
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The legendary Berlin Journal is one of the great treasures in Max Frisch’s posthumous papers. Frisch himself mandated that it not be published until twenty years after his...
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The Radio Familiy
Year of Publication: 2011
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2011
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War Diary
Year of Publication: 2010
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2010
The present volume for the first time compiles the war diary Ingeborg Bachmann kept from late summer 1944 to June 1945, as well as the surviving letters from Jack Hamesh – a unique document...
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Drafts for a Third Sketchbook
Year of Publication: 2010
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2010
The typescript of a previously unknown work was discovered in the Max Frisch Archive in Zurich in 2009. A total of 184 pages, dictated by Frisch, typed from tape by his secretary. A...
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An Answer from the Silence
Year of Publication: 2009
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2009

Max Frisch’s literary career began in 1934 with the novel Jürg Reinhart, a summery tale of the road to destiny. Three years later in the German publishing establishment he...

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