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 poet, essayist and author of radio plays said that it was a »move within the head« that also...
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 poet, essayist and author of radio plays said that it was a »move within the head« that also encompassed her life. For the publication announcement she asked for the explicit note that this was neither »poetic prose« nor a »collection of stories«, so as to avoid any genre specification; what was important to her was the internal cohesion, the »sign of utopia« that connected all her stories.
For here too we are dealing with the »story within the self«. It is discernible in the biographically significant titles Youth in an Austrian City or The Thirtieth Year, but is most immediate in the story whose title character seems the farthest removed from our world: In Undine’s Valediction, this unique evocation of art and the drama of art and life, which forms the conclusion of the volume.
The narrative power of Ingeborg Bachmann is articulated in the scenic-analytical dimension that eminently emphasises cognition, the sense for linguistic micro-scenes, in which she focused the different forms of exercise of power and violence.
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)
Invocation of Ursa Major
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...
Italy (Adelphi)
»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...
