»Write down everything that is true«
The Correspondence
Edited by Hubert Lengauer. Collected Works and Letters. Salzburger Bachmann Edition. Volume 13.
»Write down everything that is true« / Salzburger Bachmann Edition
The Correspondence
Edited by Hubert Lengauer. Collected Works and Letters. Salzburger Bachmann Edition. Volume 13.
The correspondence between two major intellectuals
The hitherto unpublished and unknown correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Magnus Enzensberger allows one to relive how, after the Second World War, two of the most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 a poet and cover girl of Der Spiegel magazine in 1954. The other was an »angry young man«,...
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The hitherto unpublished and unknown correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Magnus Enzensberger allows one to relive how, after the Second World War, two of the most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 a poet and cover girl of Der Spiegel magazine in 1954. The other was an »angry young man«, a networker who tore strips off the literature industry, and whose career as a poet began in 1957. Ingeborg Bachmann (born in 1926) and Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born in 1929) met in the October of 1955 in Tübingen at the Gruppe 47 conference. After a subsequent meeting, the letter exchange struck up, initiated by Enzensberger in November 1957. A correspondence was established, of which 130 letters have been handed down: 53 from Bachmann, 77 from Enzensberger. The final letters are dated 1972, the year before Ingeborg Bachmann died.
The two emblematic figures, icons of German post-war literature, converse on literature in general and in detail, and on their own intentions; they reflect upon contemporary happenings, polemicize, and are also unreservedly frank in their opinions of dear colleagues. Two different writing-characters bounce off one another: discussions broached by one with pragmatic irony and defended by the other from a position of principle.
»It is exciting to see what one more or less speculatively reads into the empty spaces of this correspondence ... and yet, no other female German-language writer has been so commented upon. And no work on her ever appears that does not attempt to decipher ›the Bachmann mystery‹. All the same, up till today no one has really managed.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Two people who were close to each other decided instead to try things out at a distance. The loss for literature is inestimable. The gain is in this collection.« Andreas Kilb, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
»A moving, informative bit of north-south correspondence ... This until recently unknown epistolary exchange leads right into the post-war history of German literature. The postage costs most certainly yielded a return.« Frankfurter Rundschau
»A sensational document of a friendship between two poets that lasted for decades.« Münchner Merkur
»Literature of such a linguistic force that it blows you away – when two exceptional writers ... write each other letters, these ›messages‹ become an incomparable delight.« literaturmarkt.info
»It is exciting to see what one more or less speculatively reads into the empty spaces of this correspondence ... and yet, no other female German-language writer has been so commented upon. And no work on her ever appears that does not attempt to decipher ›the Bachmann mystery‹. All the same, up till today no one has really managed.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Two people who were close to each other decided instead to try things out at a...
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2018, 479 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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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Author
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren in 1929. He died on November 24, 2022, aged 93, in Munich. As a poet, essayist, writer, biographer, editor and translator, he was one of the world’s most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Author
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren in 1929. He died on November 24, 2022, aged 93, in Munich. As a poet, essayist, writer,...
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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
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Light Poems
»Light poems« in a time of severe global crises – can that work? And what are they trying to tell us? But in any case, having a poet and a visual artist as renowned as Enzensberger and Tripp present us with the illusion of life is certainly going to be entertaining. With great zest, the two disturb it, the dust of our earthly conditions in the form of people, animals and things....
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: 2020
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2020
Babel
Babel! A word seemingly born from chaos in its alliterating, rolling urgency. The poet pulls several examples of how deception and self-deceit, misjudgements and failing routines determine...
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Year of Publication: 2019
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2019
Windfalls
»How’s the confidence of the financial astrologers doing? What does the gibberish of the daily papers tell us? How much reality is contained in the mythical models of contemporary physics and cosmology? Towards which ultimate goal is our contemporaries’ pathological mobility drifting? What is the ubiquitous craze for abbreviations hiding? And down which garden path are the fine arts trying to...
Year of Publication: 2019
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2019
Poems 1950-2020
Every five years, Hans Magnus Enzensberger presents once more the chance to discover his rich lyrical oeuvre. Enzensberger takes the opportunity to critically review his selection and enrich it with...
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Year of Publication: 2019
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2019
An Expert Review in 89 Numbers
Nature has treated people somewhat like a stepmother would. Other animals are stronger, can swim and fly better, give birth less awkwardly and do not need as much time to become adults. How can it be then that this weak creature came to be the strongest on earth? The answer, if you believe the author, has to do with the division of labour. Thanks to this trick every one of us, he believes,...
Year of Publication: 2018
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2018
A Handful of Anecdotes
»It is hard to shake off one’s date of birth. M. drags his around with him, too.« The first twenty years of life are baggage that a person is forever stuck with. But...
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Year of Publication: 2018
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2018
Survival Artists
The 20th century was the heyday of writers who had survived state terror and purges with all the ethical and political ambivalences that this entailed. How did they manage to do that? Were they...
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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
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2015
Money, Money, Money!
Every time Aunt Fé comes to visit, the rather ordinary daily life of the Federmann family is turned upside down. Elderly, jaunty Aunt Fé is a sly lady. She lead an adventurous life and...
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Year of Publication: 2014
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2014
Tumult
In 1963 the author took his first trip to Russia and unexpectedly became a guest at Khrushchev's dacha in Gagra. The result was a detailed portrait of the man and the Soviet »Thaw«...
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Year of Publication: 2014
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2014
Gone!
What’s going on in Theresia’s grandparents’ house? More and more things continue to disappear in an inexplicable manner: from the corkscrew to an old radio with a magical eye to the massive oak buffet table – until the entire house goes up in flames. But has anything really disappeared or have people simply forgotten where those things have gone? Theresia follows events closely, at first as a...
Year of Publication: 2013
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2013
Mr Zed's Reflections
Who is this plump Mr., who shows up every afternoon at the same spot in the city park for almost a year, and who engages passers-by in quick-witted repartee? A wise man, a wisecracker, a clown, a...
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Year of Publication: 2012
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2012
Panopticon
In his new book, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, the master of the political and literary essay, discloses information about matters big and small, daily and commonplace themes, astounding his readers...
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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: 2011
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2011
Brussel, the Gentle Monster or the Disenfranchisement of Europe
Who dictates that we should have thirty-four-digit bank transfer codes, questions the legal systems of apparently sovereign nations and sets up rescue systems of dizzying proportions that exceed the...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2010
My Favourite Flops, Followed by a Wealth of Ideas
In this black book, Enzensberger sets his sights on a subject that many artistic contemporaries of his shun: failure.
»There are few experiences that I owe so much to; I would even...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2010
Album
What is this »album« about?
»This is not a diary«, as it states at the very beginning of the book.
So what is it then? A jumble, a jotter, a...
»This is not a diary«, as it states at the very beginning of the book.
So what is it then? A jumble, a jotter, a...
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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: 2009
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2009
Skirmishes and Scholia
They remained unpublished for decades: Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Frankfurt lectures on poetry from the winter semester of 1964/65. Using these extensive texts, Enzensberger's writings on...
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Year of Publication: 2009
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 2009
»for means of brutal communication«
In 1959, just after Uwe Johnson’s relocation to West berlin and the publication of his debut novel Speculations About Jakob, the correspondence and friendship between Johnson and Hans Magnus Enzensberger commences. Over the course of eight years they communicate about the situation of literature and politics and discuss the scopes of political activism. At the same time,...
Year of Publication: 2009
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2009
Fatal Numbers
Since time immemorial man has developed ways of coping with the seemingly unpredictable vicissitudes of his existence. But the modern age was not content with the old incantations of the shamans and...
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Year of Publication: 2008
Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2008
Herzzeit
»Books of this stature appear only every few decades.« Deutschlandradio
The correspondence from the period 1948-61 – a last letter penned by Celan...
The correspondence from the period 1948-61 – a last letter penned by Celan...
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Year of Publication: 2008
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2008
Hammerstein or Idiosyncrasy
A grand opus on the most fatal period of German history and an outstanding figure until now not the subject of a biography. The results of Hans Magnus Enzensberger's research into the life of...
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Year of Publication: 2007
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2007
The Labyrinth of Intelligence
Intelligence, along with flexibility and the ability to work in a team, is the cardinal virtue of today’s world. However, using tests to make objective sense of subjective results leads to...
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Year of Publication: 2006
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2006
Terror's Men
The eagerness with which school children, jihadists, family men and suicide bombers take arms to end their lives, and as many others as possible, puzzles most of us. »One needn't understand...
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Year of Publication: 2006
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2006
Josefine and I
Joachim is a level-headed young man aged 30, a successful economic expert, who in the autumn of 1990 gets caught in the clutches of a fairly dominant old lady, who at 75 can look back on a grand...
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Year of Publication: 2004
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2004
Dialogues between the Immortals, the Living and the Dead
The famous philosopher Zhuangzi is having an argument with a man who has been dead for 500 years. Diderot receives an obtrusive reporter from the 20th century for an interview. An ageing...
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Year of Publication: 2003
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2003
A History of Clouds
In these 99 meditations, Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes a very close look at things: He feels that clouds are alien and yet symbols of human life. He captures the individual miniscule detail, the...
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Year of Publication: 2002
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2002
The Elixirs of Science
Since his literary beginnings, Hans Magnus Enzensberger has always concerned himself with scientific themes, the history of science and the cognitive theories and biographies of researchers. His now...
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Year of Publication: 1999
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1999
Lighter than Air
»As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. […]...
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Year of Publication: 1997
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1997
Zig Zag
This volume features works written between 1989 and 1996. Three essays are published for the first time, the others remain unaltered except for minimal stylistic changes.
Some,...
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Year of Publication: 1995
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1995
Kiosk
The kiosk around the corner – outside, it has a lot on offer. Inside, in the semi-darkness, sits a man or a woman, but what they are thinking is a different story altogether. In the...
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Year of Publication: 1993
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1993
Civil Wars
»In Civil Wars, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany’s most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of...
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Year of Publication: 1992
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1992
The Great Migration
Migration, xenophobia: topics of the century. Enzensberger's markings, which are not lacking in clarity, will be welcome to all those who are tired of looking at the problem from the narrow view...
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Year of Publication: 1991
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1991
Zukunftsmusik
»The complicated charm of the poems lies in the absurd freshness with which wistfulness, boredom and melancholy are expressed, this triple abyss of the modern soul. The stylistic balancing act...
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Year of Publication: 1988
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1988
Mediocrity & Delusion
West German society is novel, banal and unfathomable. Since Einzelheiten (1961), Enzensberger has accompanied its evolution with ever new objections and observations. As befits an essayist,...
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Year of Publication: 1987
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1987
Europe, Europe
»In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already »among the touchstones of the new travel writing« (Newsweek), one of [...] Germany’s leading...
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Year of Publication: 1982
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1982
Political Crumbs
»How many more times do I have to tell you: There is no art without pleasure«, Enzensberger once claimed in one of his poems. That is a maxim he acts on in this book as...
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Year of Publication: 1978
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1978
Mausoleum
The thirty-seven ballads deal with the contraditictions of »progress«, with a process, therefore, that has been going on for centuries, whose tragic and comedic, awe-inspiring and absurd...
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Year of Publication: 1978
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1978
The Sinking of the Titanic
A comdey. A comedy? Enzensberger‘s play is an epic poem in thirty-three cantos about the story that is as gripping now as it was back then. The catastophe that happened in 1912 is documented and...
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Year of Publication: 1972
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1972
Anarchy's Brief Summer
Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural...
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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
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1964
Particulars
The essays of this collection dispel the legend that thoughts had nothing to do with the world from whence they came. Enzensberger analyses a production process: the creation not of...
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Year of Publication: 1964
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1964
Politics and Crime
Enzensberger presents his attempts at revising the conception of justice and rights violations, of nation, sovereignty, obedience and betrayal. They are attempts at exposing the criminal element...
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Year of Publication: 1957
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1957
Defence of Wolves
Published in 1957, Defence of Wolves is Hans Magnus Enzensberger's debut collection of poetry. The poems in this volume combine virtuoso language games with a disgust for the world,...
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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...
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