21 Facts About Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann is regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century.

Ingeborg Bachmann's father was an early member of the Austrian National Socialist Party.

Ingeborg Bachmann had a sister, Isolde, and a brother, Heinz.

Ingeborg Bachmann studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna.

Yet, as Ingeborg Bachmann knows too well, escapism is a temporary heterotopia where guilt and longing cannot be kept at bay.

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.

Between November 1959 and February 1960 Ingeborg Bachmann gave five lectures on poetics at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

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.

Ingeborg Bachmann stresses the need for a new language inhabited by a new spirit.

Ingeborg Bachmann set these poets apart from the Surrealists who aspired to violence and the Futurists who claimed that "war is beautiful".

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 "easy friendship between pure aestheticism with political barbarism".

Ingeborg Bachmann was concerned with the "accountability and authority, the authenticity and reliability, of the person in the position of narrating the work".

Ingeborg Bachmann argued that Henry Miller and Celine placed "themselves and their personal experience directly at the centre of their novels".

Ingeborg Bachmann referenced Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata and Dostoyevsky's The House of Dead as first-person narrators of the inner story.

Ingeborg Bachmann argued that narrators could provide a new treatment of time, of material or of space.

Ingeborg Bachmann discussed the use of names in contemporary literature.

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, which made a work utopian.

Ingeborg Bachmann argued that literature could make us aware of a lack, both in the work and in our own world.

Ingeborg Bachmann's works gained popularity within the emerging Frauenliteratur movement which struggled to find the authentic female voice.

The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, awarded annually in Klagenfurt since 1977, is named after her.

From 1945 to 1946, Ingeborg Bachmann fell in love with a former member of the British Army, the Viennese Jew Jack Hamesh.