Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann was born in 1926 in Klagenfurt, Austria. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna, where she attended courses in law, philology, and psychology. She completed practical training at the neurological clinic of Steinhof in Vienna. With her dissertation "The Critical Reception of Heidegger's Existential Philosophy," she earned her doctorate in 1950. She worked in the secretariat of the American occupation service (1951), as a scriptwriter for the radio station Red-White-Red (1951-52), as a dramaturge for Bavarian television (1957-58), and as a lecturer at the Chair of Poetics at the University of Frankfurt (1959-60). Bachmann left Austria in 1953 to settle in Italy. She lived for short periods in Zurich (1958-62) and Berlin (1963), before ultimately passing away in Rome in 1973. Ingeborg Bachmann was part of Group 47, alongside Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass, who sought in their writings the new consciousness of post-war Germany. With the publication "To Speak Dark Words" (translated by Dante Sideris-Speck, Nefeli Editions, 2007), her significant poetic work was published in Greek for the first time.