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Article: Ingeborg Bachmann: Hinterlassenschaften unter Wahrung des Briefgeheimnisses.(Review)
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- The Germanic Review
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- June 22, 2001
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Sigrid Weigel Ingeborg Bachmann: Hinterlassenschaften unter Wahrung des Briefgeheimnisses Wien: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1999. Pp. 605.
At the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago in 1999, Sigrid Weigel gave the talk "Ingeborg Bachmann: Literary Bequest by Protecting the Secrecy of Letters," an approximate translation of the title of her recent book. Even as the meeting began, it was clear from remarks by copanelists that there had been hard feelings about Weigel's book--a monumental intellectual biography of Bachmann--and although I had to leave the session before the question-and-answer period was over, it was equally clear that hard feelings were not ...