Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.
24 Facts About Ingeborg Bachmann
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Ingeborg Bachmann's father was an early member of the Austrian National Socialist Party.
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Ingeborg Bachmann had a sister, Isolde, and a brother, Heinz.
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Ingeborg Bachmann studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna.
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Ingeborg Bachmann was in the vanguard of Austrian women writers who discovered in their private lives the political realities from which they attempted to achieve emancipation.
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Between November 1959 and February 1960 Ingeborg Bachmann gave five lectures on poetics at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Ingeborg Bachmann insisted that literature had to be viewed in its historic context, thus foreshadowing a rising interest in studying the connection between literary discourse and the contemporary understanding of history.
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Ingeborg Bachmann stressed that a new language was inhabited by a new spirit.
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Ingeborg Bachmann set these poets apart from the surrealists who aspired to violence and the futurists who claimed that "war is beautiful".
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Ingeborg Bachmann argued that these two movements exemplified art-for-art's sake and that the careers of Gottfried Benn and Ezra Pound exemplified the friendship between pure aestheticism with political barbarism.
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Ingeborg Bachmann referenced Kafka on the need to "take the axe to the frozen sea in us" and the refusal to remain silent about the crimes in our world.
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Ingeborg Bachmann was concerned with the accountability and authority, the authenticity and reliability of a person of narrating a work.
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Ingeborg Bachmann distinguished between the unproblematic "I" in letters and diaries which conceal the person from the author, and the unproblematic "I" in memoirs.
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Ingeborg Bachmann argued that Henry Miller and Louis-Ferdinand Celine placed themselves and their own personal experience directly at the centre of their novels.
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Ingeborg Bachmann referenced Tolstoy's The Kreuzer Sonata and Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead as first-person narrators of the inner story.
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Ingeborg Bachmann argued that narrators could provide a new treatment of time, of material or of space.
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Ingeborg Bachmann asserted that in the modern novel the "I" had shifted and the narrator no longer lives the story, instead the story is in the narrator.
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Ingeborg Bachmann discussed the use of names in contemporary literature.
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Ingeborg Bachmann argued that it was the process that was set in motion in the writer and reader as a result of their interaction with literature that made a work utopian.
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Ingeborg Bachmann argued that literature could make us aware of the lack, both in the work and in our own world.
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Ingeborg Bachmann is buried at the Annabichl cemetery in Klagenfurt.
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Ingeborg Bachmann's works gained popularity within the emerging Frauenliteratur movement which struggled to find the authentic female voice.
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The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, awarded annually in Klagenfurt since 1977, is named after her.
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Ingeborg Bachmann had relationships with Max Frisch and poet Paul Celan.