Angelika Fischer

Literary-biographical essay with current photos of Angelika Fischer, supplemented by historical illustrations. A total of 56 illustrations in color-tinted duotone. Sealed.

Rome, the 'Eternal City' on the Tiber, has always played a special role in the life of Austrian poet and writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973). After receiving the Group 47 Prize for her poetry collection 'Die gestundete Zeit' in 1953, she moved to Italy and lived there as a freelance author. She soon settled in Rome, where she worked, among other things, as the Italian correspondent for the Westdeutsche Allgemeine. By the time of her highly regarded poetry collection 'Anrufung des Grossen Bären', she was considered a significant voice in German-language poetry of her time. Her texts were important inspirations for composer Hans Werner Henze. After stops in Munich and Zurich, she was drawn back to Rome, where she lived with Max Frisch from 1960 onwards. The separation from the Swiss author in 1962 deeply shook her. After a longer stay in Berlin, she returned to Rome in 1965, where she lived in seclusion and published poetry only sporadically. In her constant struggle with her pill and alcohol addiction, she worked on her novel cycle 'Todesarten', of which only the first volume, Malina, was published in 1971. Ingeborg Bachmann died in 1973 at the Sant'Eugenio Hospital (Rome) from the consequences of a fire accident in her apartment.

Irene Fussl is a staff member of the Ingeborg Bachmann Archive in Salzburg, and Arturo Larcati is a professor of German literature at the University of Verona.