Ingeborg Bachmann
Who is Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.
Biography
Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of Olga (née Haas) and Matthias Bachmann, a schoolteacher. Her father was an early member of the Austrian National Socialist Party. She had a sister, Isolde, and a brother, Heinz.
She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna. In 1949, she received her doctor of philosophy from the University of Vienna with her dissertation titled "The Critical Reception of the Existential Philosophy of Martin Heidegger"; her thesis adviser was Victor Kraft.
After graduating, Bachmann worked as a scriptwriter and editor a...
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Ingeborg Bachmann Poems
- Nebelland
Im Winter ist meine Geliebte
unter den Tieren des Waldes.
Da� ich vor Morgen zurückmu�,
wei� die Füchsin und lacht.
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- Bruderschaft
Each and every thing cuts wounds,
and neither of us has forgiven the other.
Hurting like you and hurtful,
I lived towards you.
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- Easter Zunday
Last Easter Jim put on his blue
Frock cwoat, the vu'st time-vier new;
Wi' yollow buttons all o' brass,
That glitter'd in the zun lik' glass;
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- The Geate A-vallen To
In the zunsheen of our zummers
Wi' the hay time now a-come,
How busy wer we out a-vield
Wi' vew a-left at hwome,
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- Menschenlos
Verwunschnes Wolkenschloß, in dem wir treiben...
Wer weiß, ob wir nicht schon durch viele Himmel
so ziehen mit verglasten Augen?
Wir, in die Zeit verbannt
...
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- Blanc_alba: war is no longer declared,
only continued. the monstrous
has become everyday. the hero
stays away from battle. the weak
have gone to the front.
the uniform of the day is patience,
its medal the pitiful star of hope above the heart.
-ingeborg bachmann
-man ray/endgame1946
- Fkittlerbot: there is nothing more beautiful under the sun wrote ingeborg bachmann from the step.
- Dreamsofbeing_: “when ivan and i are quiet… no silence descends…”
—malina, ingeborg bachmann; tr. philip boehm.
- Xirkus: a work of art does not argue. ingeborg bachmann
- Dreamsofbeing_: (word for word. three paths to the lake. ingeborg bachmann. translated by mary fran gilbert)
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