The exhibition at the Goethe House Museum Ingeborg Bachmann. Esisto solo quando scrivo (Ingeborg Bachmann. I exist only when I write), organized by the Literaturhaus München and the Literaturmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in collaboration with the Goethe House Museum and with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum Rome, dedicated to the writer and poet Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), offers a broad overview of the life and work of the extraordinary Austrian writer, focusing on the places that influenced her: the town of Klagenfurt, the scene of her childhood, the Vienna of her first successes, then Munich, Zurich, Berlin and finally Rome, her city of choice.
The exhibition is divided into five sections, which also present books and documents about her ties with Max Frisch, Henry Kissinger, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, along with numerous photographs from all phases of the writer’s life. Special attention is paid to Ingeborg Bachmann’s close relationship with Italy: a documentary portraying her in Rome in 1973 completes the picture of the great author. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication in Italian and German.
Considered one of the most important exponents of 20th-century European literature, Ingeborg Bachmann was born in 1926 in Austria, in Klagenfurt, in the region of Carinthia, where she spent her childhood and adolescence growing up in a family belonging to the Protestant and Slovenian minority. After having conducted her university studies in Innsbruck, Graz and finally Vienna, a city that will be the backdrop to many of her works, she graduated in German studies and obtained a doctorate in philosophy with the thesis The critical reception of Martin Heidegger's existential philosophy. The friendships, loves and correspondences with many intellectuals contemporary to her, such as that with the poet Paul Celan, belong to the same period. Her literary production is extremely vast: it ranges from lyric poetry to radio drama, from essays to short stories, from dreamlike and narrative prose to the novel. An avant-garde feminist, she recognized in the patriarchy and the petty bourgeois family an expression of power, of violence in the private sphere.
A professor at the University of Frankfurt, between 1959 and 1960, she held lessons in poetics; in Rome she cultivated friendships with great figures of the Italian intellectual scene, including Pierpaolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante, Giorgio Agamben and Ginevra Bompiani.
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