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The Radio Family (Hardcover)
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The Radio Family (Hardcover)
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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of postwar
German literature's most important novelists, poets, and
playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary
circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her
poems, short stories, and novels, and won numerous awards for her
work. Sadly, her life ended abruptly in October of 1973 when a lit
cigarette burned down her apartment, causing Bachmann to suffer
severe burns that would eventually prove fatal. The author was only
forty-seven, and her tragic death left what could have been a long
and lustrous writing career regretfully stunted. Nearly twenty
years after her death, during an estate sale in Vienna, fifteen
episodes of the Viennese radio drama The Radio Family were
discovered. Remarkably, they happened to be written by Bachmann
herself, who had been a writer on the show just after she graduated
from university. The Radio Family was a popular soap opera
broadcast in the American sector of occupied Vienna in the 1950s.
The program focused on a middle-class Viennese family and their
everyday life. Topics ranged from birthday parties and holiday
plans to profiteering and currency fraud in the commercial sector
and Austrians' involvement in the Nazi past. All fifteen scripts
have now been compiled and masterfully translated, revealing an
early and significant piece of Bachmann's body of work, while
simultaneously offering a rare glimpse into Vienna's quotidian
history.
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