Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973), the daughter of a schoolteacher from Klagenfurt who had joined the Nazi party as early as 1932, lived through the entry of German troops into her town as a child. In 1950 she defended a thesis on Heidegger, worked for the Viennese radio station Rot-Weiß-Rot, and in 1953 received the Group 47 prize for her first collection of poems. She lived mostly in Italy, settled in Rome in 1965, maintained with Paul Celan a relationship and a literary dialogue that were decisive for her, and died in Rome in 1973, at the age of forty-seven.

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• NovelMalinaIngeborg Bachmann · 1971Literature