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The Radio Familiy

Edited by Joseph McVeigh
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The Radio Familiy / Die Radiofamilie
Edited by Joseph McVeigh
In autumn of the year 1952, a »chain-smoking mermaid with angel’s hair who more whispered than spoke« entered the radio play department of the American occupied forces Rot-Weiß-Rot broadcasting station in Vienna.


Ingeborg Bachmann, as the young woman was called, was to distinguish the radio station’s entertainment line-up over the next two years and make the Floriani radio family the best known and loved programme during the post-war...
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In autumn of the year 1952, a »chain-smoking mermaid with angel’s hair who more whispered than spoke« entered the radio play department of the American occupied forces Rot-Weiß-Rot broadcasting station in Vienna.


Ingeborg Bachmann, as the young woman was called, was to distinguish the radio station’s entertainment line-up over the next two years and make the Floriani radio family the best known and loved programme during the post-war years.

They are middle-class, and they’re eccentric: the Florianis. Hans, the paterfamilias is respectable to the bone but perceives himself as an »odd character« in his family. His wife Vilma, who is »a little better than most«, sees no need to contradict her husband. She takes a much harder look at her brother-in-law Guido. He was a Nazi, but only in small time way, »just a chump who was a sucker for Hitler«. Week after week, they meet and negotiate the Cold War, denazification and the beginning of reconstruction with much wit and irony - and besides the big events, they also deal with the small ones in post-war Austria.

 

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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...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

»Senza casa«
Year of Publication: 2024
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2024
Autobiographical essays, a ›war diary‹ and previously unpublished autobiographical material, along with the ›Neapolitan Diary‹ from Bachmann’s heady days as a freelance writer. Gathered together for the first time in this new volume of the Salzburger Bachmann Edition, these texts offer new insights into the life of this remarkable author. Questioning and correcting stereotypical images of...
»We Didn’t Do Well.«
Year of Publication: 2022
Ingeborg Bachmann, Max FrischYear of Publication: 2022

Spring 1958: Ingeborg Bachmann – celebrated poet, winner of Literary Prize of Gruppe 47 and cover star of Der Spiegel – is broadcasting the radio play Der gute Gott von...

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English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Feltrinelli)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (speak low)

Invocation of Ursa Major
Year of Publication: 2022
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2022

The verses in Ingeborg Bachmann’s second collection of poetry, Invocation of Ursa Major (1956), caused a sensation when they were published and soon became canonised: they were immensely...

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Italy (Adelphi)

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.


Of the writing phase the...

»Write down everything that is true«
Year of Publication: 2018

The hitherto unpublished and unknown correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Magnus Enzensberger allows one to relive how, after the Second World War, two of the most prominent writers in the German language chose to depict and regard the world, literature and the publishing industry, but also how they wished to present and be regarded themselves.


One was...

Male Oscuro
Year of Publication: 2017
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2017

Ingeborg Bachmann’s dream notes, correspondence drafts and records from the time of her illness are of great literary interest as the primary elements of the subsequent Todesarten-texts. In addition, these writings are apt to further our knowledge about her illness and the phenomenon of illness itself. They are outrageous, courageous in their analytic approach, defeated...

The Book Goldmann
Year of Publication: 2017
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2017

The Book Goldmann is the name Ingeborg Bachmann gave to her great narrative project, which she cherished until the end. This edition renders the previously only fragmentarily...

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Turkey (Can)
 

Ingeborg Bachmann’s Vienna 1946-1953
Year of Publication: 2015
Joseph McVeighYear of Publication: 2015
In the autumn of 1945 the nineteen-year-old Ingeborg Bachmann sets off on the journey that she would later describe as her »longest«, from provincial Kärnten, via Innsbruck and Graz to Vienna.


She begins her studies in philosophy and finds work with the American occupation radio station Rot-WeiĂź-Rot, publishes her first poems and stories and quickly joins the circle...
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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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Akal)

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Herzzeit
Year of Publication: 2008
Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2008
»Books of this stature appear only every few decades.« Deutschlandradio


The correspondence from the period 1948-61 – a last letter penned by Celan...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Fondo Cultura), Croatia (OceanMore)

Malina
Year of Publication: 1971
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 1971

»In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer...

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USA & Canada (New Directions), UK & Commonwealth (Penguin), Russia (AST), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estaçao Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Antígona), France (Seuil), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Koppernik), Denmark (Grif), Sweden (Ellerströms), Korea (Minumsa), Japan (Chikuma Shobo), Poland (A5, Polish audio book: Mala Litera), Hungary (Jelenkor), Romania (Humanitas), Serbia (Kontrast), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Potlatch), Ukraine (Klasyka), Georgia (Karchkhadze Publishing)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Akal), Catalan rights (Edicions 62), Norway (Bokvennen), Finland (Weilin & Göös), Czech Republic (Mlada fronta), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Bulgaria (Na Otetschestwenia Front), Lithuania (Lithuanian Writers Union), Slovenia (Pomuska Zalozba), Macedonia (Tri), Israel (Hakibutz Hameuchad / Sifriat Poalim)

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Deferred Time
Year of Publication: 1953
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 1953

For the young Ingeborg Bachmann and her generation, the great hope after the war soon proved deceptive. The themes in Bachmann's first volume of poetry, Deferred Time (1953), are representative of the experience that defines writing after 1945: Departure and farewell, guilt and memory. In the dramatic gestures and memorable images of her poetic language, this experience found a...


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27.01.2020
January 27 marks the Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism in Germany and the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust.
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Ingeborg Bachmann would have celebrated her 90th birthday on June 25, 2016.