Invocation of Ursa Major
Italy (Adelphi)
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 memorable, contained bold metaphors, their style was critical of contemporary issues and ethically motivated. These are poems that pose radical questions and unfold themes such as love, self-determination, responsibility and utopia with sharp intellectual freedom and a captivating...
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 memorable, contained bold metaphors, their style was critical of contemporary issues and ethically motivated. These are poems that pose radical questions and unfold themes such as love, self-determination, responsibility and utopia with sharp intellectual freedom and a captivating sound.
This new edition makes the ingeniously composed structure of the collection visible. For the first time, the poems are published alongside a detailed commentary that takes into account the poet’s estate and are situated within the cultural-historical discourse of the time. The wide-ranging network of intertextual references, the dialogue with Paul Celan, the philosophical horizon, the variety of metrical forms, the intricate editorial history and the controversial reception are presented in exemplary fashion, so that the inexhaustible vitality and radiance of the verses can be examined in a new light.
The Salzburger Bachmann Edition is the first complete edition of Ingeborg Bachmann’s prose, poetry and essays, as well as her 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it will present already published works in commented editions and will furthermore make available all previously unpublished works from Ingeborg Bachmann’s estate.
Suhrkamp represents translation rights to integral (single) volumes of the Collected Works.
Persons
Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann was born on June 25, 1926 in Klagenfurt. She first rose to prominence as a poet after reading her work at a gathering of the legendary Gruppe 47. She went on to publish two collections of poetry, Die gestundete Zeit (1953) and Anrufung des Großen Bären (1956), along with numerous radio plays, essays, and short story collections. In 1971, she published her only completed novel, Malina. Bachmann passed away on 17 October 1973 in Rome.
Ingeborg Bachmann was born on June 25, 1926 in Klagenfurt. She first rose to prominence as a poet after reading her work at a gathering of the...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
»What Are We Going to Do With Our Lives?«
»Senza casa«
»We Didn’t Do Well« – The Bachmann Frisch Correspondence
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...
English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Feltrinelli)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (speak low)
The Thirtieth Year
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«
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
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
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...
Turkey (Can)
The Radio Familiy
English world rights (Seagull), Turkey (Can)
War Diary
English world rights (Seagull), France (Actes Sud), Italy (Adelphi), Poland (Czarne), Denmark (Grif), Czech Republic (Pulchra), Ukraine (Osnovy), Israel (Hakkibutz Hameuchad – Sifriyat Poalim), Bengali rights (Kromosho Prakashan)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Akal)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audiobuch)
Herzzeit – The Bachmann–Celan Correspondence
The correspondence from the period 1948-61 – a last letter penned by Celan...
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), Bulgaria (Panorama), 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
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 in Vienna, is...
USA & Canada (New Directions), UK & Commonwealth (Penguin), Spanish world rights (Nórdica), 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), Czech Republic (Opus), Serbia (Kontrast), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Potlatch), Albania (Aleph), Ukraine (Fabula), Georgia (Palitra L), Armenia (Antares), Azerbaijan (Alatoran), Iran (Whale Publishing)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Akal), Catalan rights (Edicions 62), Norway (Bokvennen), Finland (Weilin & Göös), Poland (A5, Polish audio book: Mala Litera), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Hungary (Jelenkor), Bulgaria (Na Otetschestwenia Front), Romania (Humanitas), 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
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...