Ingeborg Bachmann

Michael Mitchell

Hans Höller

Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of sketches, depicting the last months of World War II and the first year of the subsequent British occupation of Austria. These articulate and powerful entries—all the more remarkable taking into account Bachmann's young age at the time—reveal the eighteen-year-old's hatred of both war and Nazism as she avoids the fanatics' determination to “defend Klagenfurt to the last man and the last woman.” The British occupation leads to her incredible meeting with a British officer, Jack Hamesh, a Jew who had originally fled Vienna for England in 1938. He is astonished to find in Austria a young girl who has read banned authors such as Mann, Schnitzler, and Hofmannsthal. Their relationship is captured here in the emotional and moving letters Hamesh writes to Bachmann when he travels to Israel in 1946. In his correspondence, he describes how in his new home of Israel, he still suffers from the rootlessness affecting so many of those who lost parents, family, friends, and homes in the war. War Diary provides unusual insight into the formation of Bachmann as a writer and will be cherished by the many fans of her work. But it is also a poignant glimpse into life in Austria in the immediate aftermath of the war, and the reflections of both Bachmann and Hamesh speak to a significant and larger story beyond their personal experiences.Praise for the German Edition“A minor sensation that will make literary history. Thanks to the excellent critical commentary, we gain a sense of a period in history and in Bachmann's life that reached deep into her later work. . . . What makes these diary entries so special is . . . the detail of the resistance described, the exhilaration of unexpected peace, the joy of freedom.”—Die Zeit

With Letters from Jack Hamesh

War Diary

Peter Handke

Helga Pöcheim

Literatur-Verein zur Förderung von Werk- und Kunstverständnis Ingeborg Bachmann

Karl Solibakke

Schreiben gegen den Krieg : eine Ausstellung : [Katalog zur Ausstellung:"Schreiben gegen den Krieg. Ingeborg Bachmann 1926-1973"]

Robert Pichl

Ingeborg Bachmann, Vorschläge zu einer neuen Lektüre des Werks

Der Dunkle Schatten, dem ich schon seit Anfang folge

Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) ist einer der streitbarsten, umstrittensten und bedeutendsten Schriftsteller unserer Zeit. Der lebensgeschichtliche Hintergrund seiner Romane und Dramen ist ein nicht gewöhnliches Unglück: Jugend in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit, frühe Verlassenheit, erniedrigende Armut, lebensbedrohende Krankheit; in dieser Misere zugleich ein vom Großvater am Enkel durchexerziertes künstlerisches Erziehungsprogramm – das sind Elemente der Biographie eines Autors, der die Literatur souverän zum Mittel seiner Selbstbehauptung machen konnte. Das Bildmaterial der Printausgabe ist in diesem E-Book nicht enthalten.

Thomas Bernhard

mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten

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Der unbekannte Thomas Bernhard

Irene Heidelberger-Leonard

zu Thomas Bernhards "Auslöschung"

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Hans Höller

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