The Thirtieth Year
Edited by Rita Svandrlik. Collected Works and Letters. Salzburger Bachmann Edition
The Thirtieth Year / Salzburger Bachmann Edition
Edited by Rita Svandrlik. Collected Works and Letters. Salzburger Bachmann Edition
»When someone enters their thirtieth year, others won’t stop calling them young.«
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...
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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 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.
2020, 533 pages
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Ingeborg Bachmann
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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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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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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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