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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
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»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
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...
Due to the richness and novelty of the sources, this biography is the first to provide comprehensive information about Paul Celan’s entire life in text and image. It thus enters a field of tension and faces a twofold challenge: for Celan resolutely rejected the biographical, especially the biographical approach to his poetry, and was also decidedly sceptical about the medium of...
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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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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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...
Paul Celan’s exceptional oeuvre of letters – half of them unpublished so far: An oeuvre, on par with the poetic works, of immense stylistic range. Biographically insightful and poetologically fruitful.
Paul Celan, the most-interpreted German-speaking poet after 1945, is also the author of an eminent opus of letters. In this edition, it becomes visible as its own...
»Do you consider yourself to be a good friend? Are you a good friend to yourself?« Twenty-three questions on the subject of friendship lie between these two queries. Max Frisch’s...
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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...
For Paul Celan reading was always an experience as well: the books, journals, and daily newspapers he read were as much a source of his poems as personal encounters and political events. When a...
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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...
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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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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