Herzzeit
Correspondence
Edited and annotated by Bertrand Badiou, Hans Höller, Andrea Stoll and Barbara Wiedemann
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Herzzeit / Herzzeit
Correspondence
Edited and annotated by Bertrand Badiou, Hans Höller, Andrea Stoll and Barbara Wiedemann
The Literary Sensation of 2008
»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....
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....
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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
»A model of editing and annotation.« Weltwoche
»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
»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
»A model of editing and annotation.« Weltwoche
»Elemental and of core importance to post-war German literary history” and “a dramatic, devastating document of life leaving no reader cold«...
»A model of editing and annotation.« Weltwoche
»Elemental and of core importance to post-war German literary history” and “a dramatic, devastating document of life leaving no reader cold«...
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2008, 401 pages
Persons
Ingeborg Bachmann
Author
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
Author
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...
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Paul Celan
Author
Paul Celan was born on 23 November 1920 as Paul Antschel, the sole son of German-speaking Jewish parents in the then Romanian city of Czernowitz. After completing school in 1938, he began studying medicine in Tours, France, but returned to Romania a year later to complete a degree in Romance studies. In 1942, Celan’s parents were deported to a labour camp. In the autumn of that year, his father died of typhoid, and his mother was shot. Between 1942 and 1944, Celan was made to do forced labour in several Romanian camps. From 1945 to 1947 he worked as an editor and translator in Bucharest and began to publish his first poems. In 1948, he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death. That same year, he met Ingeborg Bachmann, and in 1951, Celan met the artist Gisèle de...
Paul Celan
Author
Paul Celan was born on 23 November 1920 as Paul Antschel, the sole son of German-speaking Jewish parents in the then Romanian city of Czernowitz....
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2024
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2024
»Senza casa«
Autobiographical essays, a ›war diary‹ and previously unpublished autobiographical material, along with the ›Neapolitan Diary‹ from Bachmann’s heady days as a freelance writer. Gathered together for the first time in this new volume of the Salzburger Bachmann Edition, these texts offer new insights into the life of this remarkable author. Questioning and correcting stereotypical images of...
Year of Publication: 2023
Bertrand BadiouYear of Publication: 2023
Paul Celan
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...
Year of Publication: 2022
Ingeborg Bachmann, Max FrischYear of Publication: 2022
»We Didn’t Do Well.«
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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Year of Publication: 2022
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2022
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...
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Year of Publication: 2020
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2020
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...
Year of Publication: 2019
Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2019
»an entirely personal matter«
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...
Year of Publication: 2019
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2019
Questionnaire
»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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Year of Publication: 2018
Ingeborg Bachmann, Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2018
»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...
Year of Publication: 2018
Max Frisch, Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 2018
Sketches of an Accident/Sketches of an Accident Victim
In his Sketchbook, 1966–1971, Max Frisch published fragments of a story under the title »Sketches of an Accident«. In these fragments, the doctor Viktor travels with his lover, Marlies, a specialist in Romance studies, to Provence. An accident occurs, and the woman dies. Viktor is never again involved in an accident, but the rest of his life is influenced by his...
Year of Publication: 2018
Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2018
Poems
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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Year of Publication: 2017
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2017
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...
Year of Publication: 2017
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2017
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...
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Year of Publication: 2015
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2015
Ignorance as State Security?
In his final typescript, in a deeply personal way and in a novel literary form, Max Frisch engaged with the national scandal that rocked Switzerland in 1989 and 1990: almost a million Swiss citizens had been under State surveillance during the Cold War. On individualised index cards or »fiches« the Attorney General’s Office created a chronicle of suspicion, whose grotesque banality served...
Year of Publication: 2014
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2014
From the Berlin Journal
The legendary Berlin Journal is one of the great treasures in Max Frisch’s posthumous papers. Frisch himself mandated that it not be published until twenty years after his...
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Year of Publication: 2011
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2011
The Radio Familiy
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...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2010
War Diary
The present volume for the first time compiles the war diary Ingeborg Bachmann kept from late summer 1944 to June 1945, as well as the surviving letters from Jack Hamesh – a unique document...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2010
Drafts for a Third Sketchbook
The typescript of a previously unknown work was discovered in the Max Frisch Archive in Zurich in 2009. A total of 184 pages, dictated by Frisch, typed from tape by his secretary. A...
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Year of Publication: 2009
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2009
An Answer from the Silence
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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Year of Publication: 1993
Paul Celan, Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 1993
Correspondence
Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920–1970). Their correspondence lasted from...
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Year of Publication: 1975
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1975
Montauk
»I want to describe this day, nothing but this day, our weekend and all of this happened, what happens next, without inventing anything.«
»Max Frisch’s candid story of his...
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Year of Publication: 1973
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1973
I’m Not Stiller
Upon entering Switzerland, Mister White is arrested because the police believe he is the missing sculptor Anatol Ludwig Stiller. Former friends confirm their suspicion. Yet White denies this...
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Year of Publication: 1972
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1972
Sketchbook, 1966–1971
»By the time Swiss author Max Frisch published the second volume of his diaries or sketchbooks, he had achieved international recognition as a writer and dramatist. In this volume, he develops...
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Year of Publication: 1971
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 1971
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...
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Year of Publication: 1964
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1964
Gantenbein
A man sits in his flat, alone. The carpets are rolled up, the shutters closed, the furniture is covered with white cloths. »Of the people who once lived here, one thing is certain: one male,...
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Year of Publication: 1957
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1957
Homo faber
Max Frisch‘s Homo faber is one of the most important and most-read books of the 20th century: Engineer Walter Faber believes in a rational worldview that is irrevocably destroyed by a...
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Year of Publication: 1953
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 1953
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...
Year of Publication: 1950
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1950
Sketchbook, 1946–1949
Max Frisch's sketchbook is a survey. His reports from Europe between the years of 1946 and 1949, the accounts of his encounters in the post-war years are of both historic and current...
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Remembering Ingeborg Bachmann
17 October 2023 marks 50 years since the passing of Ingeborg BachmannJust published