The Radio Family (The German List) - Hardcover

Bachmann, Ingeborg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857421913 ISBN 13: 9780857421913

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2014

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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature’s most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her poems, short stories, and novels, and won numerous awards for her work. Sadly, her life ended abruptly in October of 1973 when a lit cigarette burned down her apartment causing Bachmann to suffer severe burns that would eventually prove fatal. The author was only forty-seven, and her tragic death left what could have been a long and lustrous writing career regretfully stunted.

Nearly twenty years after her death, during an estate sale in Vienna, fifteen episodes of the popular Viennese radio drama The Radio Family were discovered. Remarkably, they happened to be written by Ingeborg Bachmann herself, who had been a writer on the show just after she graduated university. The Radio Family was a popular radio soap opera broadcast in the American sector of occupied Vienna in the 1950s. The program focused on a middle-class Viennese family and their everyday life. Topics ranged from birthday parties and holiday plans to profiteering and currency fraud in the commercial sector, and Austrians’ involvement in the Nazi past. All fifteen scripts have now been compiled and masterfully translated, revealing an early and significant piece of Bachmann’s body of work, while simultaneously offering a rare glimpse into Vienna’s quotidian history.

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Ingeborg Bachmann’s works include Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, and Malina, among many others.Mike Mitchell has worked as a literary translator since 1995. His translations include Peter Handke’s Till Day You do Part or A Question of Light, Max Frisch’s An Answer from the Silence, and Thomas Lehr’s September, all published by Seagull Books.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857421913
• ISBN 13: 9780857421913
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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