Ingeborg Bachmann and Memory Resistance

Ingeborg Bachmann and Memory Resistance

Ingeborg Bachmann

An Austrian poet, novelist, and short story writer. Considered one of the defining authors of 20th-century German-language literature. Having studied philosophy, she completed a doctoral dissertation at the University of Vienna in 1949 concerning the reception of Martin Heidegger's existential philosophy. Her works tackled themes including memories of war and fascism, violence, individual anguish, gender relations, and power dynamics within society.

Timeline

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Year Ingeborg Bachmann
1926
Birth of Ingeborg Bachmann (Period: June 25, 1926, Location: Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria (present-day city name is also Klagenfurt))
1938
Anschluss (annexation of Austria, Age: 11 years old, Period: March 1938, Location: All of Austria. Also includes Bachmann's hometown of Klagenfurt.)
1939
World War II (Age: 12 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Britain, North Africa, Mediterranean region, etc.)
1945
Philosophy studies and doctorate (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1945–1950, Location: University of Innsbruck, University of Graz, University of Vienna (Austria))
1950
Social and cultural debates surrounding Nazism and the memory of war after World War II (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1945 onward, especially the 1950s–1970s, Location: Literary and cultural world of the German-speaking sphere in Austria)
1952
Reading at Group 47 and growing recognition (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1952, Location: Meetings of the "Group 47" of German-speaking writers)
1953
Publication of the poetry collection "Time Suspended" (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1953, Location: Publishing and literary world of the German-speaking sphere)
1956
Publication of the poetry collection "Call to the Great Bear" (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1956, Location: Publishing and literary world of the German-speaking sphere)
1959
Poetics lectures at the University of Frankfurt (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1959–1960, Location: University of Frankfurt (West Germany, present-day Germany))
1971
Publication of the novel "Malina" (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1971, Location: Publishing and literary world of the German-speaking sphere)
1973
Death of Ingeborg Bachmann (Age: 47 years old, Period: October 17, 1973)
Death in Rome (Age: 47 years old, Period: October 17, 1973, Location: Rome, Italy)
Unknown
Marriage (Ingeborg Bachmann, None, Period: Never married throughout life., Location: None)

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The Division of Germany Konrad Adenauer Walter Ulbricht Otto Grotewohl Wilhelm Pieck Erich Honecker Willy Brandt Helmut Kohl
Prague Spring Ludvík Svoboda Josef Smrkovský Ludvík Vaculík Alexander Dubček Václav Havel Milan Kundera Oldřich Černík
Fall of the Berlin Wall Erich Honecker Helmut Kohl Mikhail Gorbachev Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz Günter Schabowski Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm
Literature and Thought Václav Havel Milan Kundera Czesław Miłosz Wisława Szymborska Günter Grass Heinrich Böll Thomas Bernhard Ingeborg Bachmann Elfriede Jelinek
Arts & Film Sándor Pál Andrzej Wajda Krzysztof Kieślowski Miloš Forman Jiří Menzel Werner Herzog Rainer Werner Fassbinder Wim Wenders

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