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Malina: A Filmscript Based on the Novel by Ingeborg Bachmann, Scenes 116-123.
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- Women in German Yearbook
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Introduction
Ingeborg Bachmann's novel Malina was published in 1971, two years before her death. After her death in 1973, fragments of the Todesarten (Ways of Dying) novel cycle (to which Malina was intended as the "overture") were published, leading to a reevaluation of gender relations in Bachmann's writings by feminist scholars in the 1980s and the creation of what was described by Sigrid Weigel as "die andere Ingeborg Bachmann" (the other Ingeborg Bachmann). According to Weigel, the "other Bachmann" is the later Bachmann, whose texts, in Weigel's reading of the Todesarten cycle, reveal a "structural relationship between fascism, patriarchy, ethno-, and ...