Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann, born on June 25, 1926, in Klagenfurt, gained recognition as a poet through her appearance before the Group 47 literary circle. Following the publication of her poetry collections The Deferred Time (1953) and Invocation of the Great Bear (1956), she went on to publish radio plays, essays, and two collections of short stories. Malina (1971) is her only completed novel. Bachmann died in Rome on October 17, 1973.

Malina

A writer lives in Vienna with a man named Malina. She meets Ivan, a Hungarian man, and becomes infatuated with him. However, her longing for an absolute and all-encompassing love is not reciprocated. Trapped in an apartment with Malina and haunted by restless dreams, she finds herself in a state of emotional and psychological disintegration. Her only escape is to disappear.

Read by Verena Dolovai

Author of poetry and prose. Graduate of Law as well as Translation and Interpreting Studies (English/Italian) at the University of Vienna.

Photo © Fritz Peyer / CC BY-SA 4.0