Science  People  Locations  Timeline
Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Home > Ingeborg Bachmann


Ingeborg Bachmann ( June 25, 1926 Klagenfurt, Austria - October 17, 1973 Rome, Italy) was an Austrian poet and author.

She was born in Klagenfurt, Carinthia on June 25, 1926. She studied philosophy, psychology and German philology in Vienna, and soon published the first short story. Her literary career was enforced by the contact with Hans Weigel (literateur and sponsor of young post-war literature) and the legendary literary circle known as Gruppe 47 , members of which were also Ilse Aichinger , Paul Celan, Heinrich BöllHeinrich Boll ( December 21, 1917 July 16, 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post- World War II writers. Biography Boll was born in Cologne, Germany to a liberal, Catholic, pacifistic family. He successfully resisted joining the Hitler Youth during the, Marcel Reich-RanickiMarcel Reich-Ranicki (born 2 June, 1920, at Wloclawek, Poland) is a famous German literary critic, and a member of the literary group Gruppe 47. Life Marcel Reich-Ranicki Reich-Ranicki has lived in Berlin since 1929. He was deported to Poland in 1938 beca and Günter GrassGunter Grass Nobel Prize-winning author, was born in Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) on October 16, 1927. His parents had a grocery store in Danzig Langfuhr. The Kashubian- German Grass attended the Danzig Gymnasium Conradinum. Drafted into the A.

A job at the radio station Rot-Weiss-Rot enabled Bachmann to obtain an overview of contemporary literature and also supplied her with a decent income, making possible proper literary work. Furthermore, her first radio plays were published by the station.

In 19531953 is a common year starting on Thursday (click on link for the calendar). Events January events January 7 President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. January 13 Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugosl, she transferred her main place of residence to Rome, Italy, where she spent the large part of the following years working on poems, essays, opera librettiA libretto is body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, oratorio, or musical. It includes the lyrics to the musical numbers as well as any spoken passages. The word libretto comes from Italian, and means "little book. and short stories which soon brought with them international fame and numerous awards. The relationship with Max FrischMax Frisch ( May 15, 1911 April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the most representative writers of the German literature after World War II. He was born in 1911 in Zurich; his father was an architect. He enrolled at the Un (Swiss author, 19111911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January-June January 1 Northern Territory is separated from South Australia January 3 In London, a shootout between Russian anarchists and the Scots Guard January 10 Major Jimmi- 1991) took her to Switzerland and bestowed the role of the second protagonist in Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein upon her.

Bachmann's work primarily focuses on themes like personal boundaries, establishment of the truth, and philosophy of language, the latter in the tradition of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Ingeborg Bachmann died three weeks after a fire in the bedroom, on October 17, 1973 in a Roman hospital. The real cause of her death remains unsolved, the rumour is spread that she did not succumb to the burns but to her compulsive pill-taking which was prevented by the stay in hospital.



Read more »

Non User