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Article: Ingeborg Bachmann.(Review) (book review)
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- The Germanic Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Hans Holler Ingeborg Bachmann Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999. Pp.186.
It is perhaps a measure of how far we have come toward recognizing the vital importance of Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) as a register, representer, and interrogator of the most catastrophic historical events of the twentieth century that in the final year of that century we were so well served in biographical scholarship on her. As if Sigrid Weigel's monumental, thoroughly researched intellectual biography, Ingeborg Bachmann: Hinterlassenschaften unter Wahrung des Briefgeheimnisses (Wien: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1999), were not windfall enough, Hans Holler's Ingeborg ...