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Male Oscuro

From the Time of Illness
Edited by Isolde Schiffermüller and Gabriella Pelloni. With facsimiles. Collected Works and Letters. Salzburger Bachmann Edition
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Male Oscuro / Salzburger Bachmann Edition
From the Time of Illness
Edited by Isolde Schiffermüller and Gabriella Pelloni. With facsimiles. Collected Works and Letters. Salzburger Bachmann Edition

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 by the knowledge of the incurable – and at the same time they are filled with the passionate...

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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 by the knowledge of the incurable – and at the same time they are filled with the passionate desire to escape the illness and find a cure.

In recent years, Suhrkamp Verlag has published major works from Ingeborg Bachmann’s estate, such as Herzzeit, the correspondence with Paul Celan and the Kriegstagebuch (War Diary), both of which have been translated into numerous languages. In spring 2017, Suhrkamp is going to publish the first two volumes of the Collected Works by Ingeborg Bachmann. This will be the first complete edition of prose, poetry and essays, as well as the radio plays, libretti and correspondences. Designed to be released in thirty volumes, it will present already published works in commented editions and will furthermore make available all previously unknown works from Ingeborg Bachmann’s estate.


Suhrkamp represents translation rights to integral (single) volumes of the Collected Works.

»Male Oscuro, the first volume in the complete works of Ingeborg Bachmann, contains previously inaccessible dream journals, notes and sketches from the time of her illness – a selection which is legitimized by the epistemological value and poetic nature of the texts.« Die Tageszeitung

»What this edition makes comprehensible through its meticulous and well-informed commentary goes far beyond the biographical worth of these sketches and notes alone.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

»Though Ingeborg Bachmann’s dream journals in Male Oscuro grew out of a therapeutic context, they are so much more. They are prose miniatures whose sinister images light the way from waking life into the world of sleep.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»For decades, Bachmann’s reception has been determined by two poles ..., by the myth of the pure poet on the one hand ... and by feminist literary studies on the other ... The Salzburg Bachmann Edition, curated by Hans Höller and Irene Fußl, offers the chance to put an end to these discrepancies by revealing the autobiographical sources.« Katrin Hillgruber, Tagesspiegel

»Male Oscuro, the first volume in the complete works of Ingeborg Bachmann, contains previously inaccessible dream journals, notes and sketches from the time of her illness – a selection which is legitimized by the epistemological value and poetic nature of the texts.« Die Tageszeitung

»What this edition makes comprehensible through its meticulous and well-informed commentary goes far beyond the biographical worth of these sketches and notes...

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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...

Rights sold to:

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...

Rights sold to:

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...

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...

Rights sold to:

Turkey (Can)
 

The Radio Familiy
Year of Publication: 2011
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2011
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...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Turkey (Can)

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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English world rights (Seagull), France (Actes Sud), Italy (Adelphi), Poland (Czarne), Denmark (Grif), Czech Republic (Pulchra), Turkey (Ketebe), Ukraine (Osnovy), Israel (Hakkibutz Hameuchad – Sifriyat Poalim)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Akal)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audiobuch)

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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English world rights (Seagull), Portuguese rights (Antígona), Chinese simplex rights (China Renmin UP), Russia (Ad marginem), France (Seuil), Italy (Nottetempo), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Sweden (Ellerströms), Japan (Seidosha), Poland (A5), Czech Republic (Pulchra), Romania (Art), Turkey (Kirmizi Kedi), Ukraine (Knihy XXI), Georgia (Ibis)

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...

Rights sold to:

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)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg), German Audiobook (DAV), German Radio Play (HR2)

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...


DISCOVER

News
17 October 2023 marks 50 years since the passing of Ingeborg Bachmann
News
Ingeborg Bachmann would have celebrated her 90th birthday on June 25, 2016.