Veteran director Margarethe von Trotta delivers a mawkish melodrama more interested in poet and author Bachmann's romantic life than her work. Then again, the movie’s Bachmann would be unlikely to ...

You don’t need to know a lot about Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann, who established herself as one of the leading German-language literary figures of the 1950s and 1960s before dying in 1973 at the ...

German director Margarethe von Trotta’s Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert is a fascinating if somewhat short-fused ...

I remember the first time I heard the word “Malina.” Where I was standing, what room I was in, the man who said the word. It sounded so important and complete: Ma-li-na, stress on the final syllable.

The German director portrays the tumultuous love affair the Austrian poet had with Swiss playwright Max Frisch. By Jordan Mintzer As one of Germany’s premier female directors since the 1970s, ...

The ghosts of Ingeborg Bachmann. Haunted by a dark past, the poet and novelist tried to explore the limits of language itself. “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” Ludwig ...

What does it mean to be a person? The question may sound pat in an age so alert to the fluid nature of identity, but for the celebrated Austrian author and antifascist feminist Ingeborg Bachmann, ...

The critic and novelist William H. Gass celebrated the novel’s capacity for a consciousness that belonged to neither reader nor writer but to the text alone. It was, for Gass, something wonderfully ...

The Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann’s teenage years overlapped almost precisely with the official beginning and end of World War II. Her father was a Nazi. The one novel Bachmann finished, “Malina,” ...

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“They treat you like a movie star,” says an admirer to Ingeborg Bachmann at one of her celebrated readings. She smiles graciously and agrees, thus establishing the baseline for her story. Ingeborg ...