Ingeborg Bachmann
The Radio Familiy
Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann, born on June 25th 1926, died on October 17th, 1973 in Rome.
»... the most intelligent and important woman writer our land has produced this century.«
Thomas Bernhard
»A brillant intellectual.«
Heinrich Böll
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About
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.
Selected Foreign Editions
English edition released by Seagull >>News
Other publications
Das dreißigste Jahr/The Thirtieth Year (2020)
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»Male oscuro«/Male Oscuro (2017)
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Kriegstagebuch/War Diary (2010)
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Domestic Rights Sales: Audiobook rights (Audiobuch)
Herzzeit/Herzzeit (2008)
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Malina/Malina (1971)
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USA & Canada (New Directions), UK & Commonwealth (Penguin), Spanish world rights (Akal), Russia (AST), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estaçao Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Antígona), France (Seuil), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Van Gennep), Denmark (Grif), Sweden (Ellerströms), Korea (Minumsa), Japan (Shobunsha), Poland (A5, Polish audio book: Mala Litera), Hungary (Jelenkor), Romania (Humanitas), Serbia (Kontrast), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Macedonia (Tri), Albania (Saras), Ukraine (Klasyka), Georgia (Karchkhadze Publishing), Israel (Hakibutz Hameuchad / Sifriat Poalim); previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Edicions 62), Norway (Bokvennen), Finnland (Weilin & Göös), Czech Republic (Mlada fronta), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Bulgaria (Na Otetschestwenia Front), Lithuania (Lithuanian Writers Union), Slovenia (Pomuska Zalozba), Greece (Agrostis)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Radio Play (HR2)
