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Translated byMike Mitchell
ISBN 9780857428172|Paperback|349 pages|2021|Seagull Books

This book is a compilation of fifteen scripts of a popular radio soap opera, The Radio Family, that have now been 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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Author: Ingeborg Bachmann
Edited with an Afterword by Joseph McVeigh
Translated by Mike Mitchell

9780857428172 | PB | pp. 349 | 2021 | Seagull Books

This book is a compilation of fifteen scripts of a popular radio soap opera, The Radio Family, that have now been 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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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–73) 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 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 popular Viennese radio drama The Radio Family were discovered. Remarkably, they happened to be written by Ingeborg Bachmann herself, who had been a writer on the show just after she graduated university. The Radio Family was a popular radio 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.

Author:

Ingeborg Bachmann
Edited with an Afterword by Joseph McVeigh
Translated by Mike Mitchell
ISBN:

9780857428172
Binding:

Paperback
Pages:

349
Year of Publication:

2021
Publisher:

Seagull Books
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Contributors

Ingeborg Bachmann is the author of Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina, and Simultan, among others.

For many years a lecturer in German with a special interest in Austrian literature, Mike Mitchell has worked as a literary translator since 1995. He was awarded the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Herbert Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China. For Seagull Books, he has translated Ingeborg Bachmann's War Diary (2011) and The Radio Family (2014), Max Frisch's An Answer from the Silence (2011) and Draft for a Third Sketchbook (2013), Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Tumult (2017) and Anarchy's Brief Summer (2019), Peter Handke's Till Day You do Part or A Question of Light (2009), Ralf Rothmann's Fire Doesn't Burn (2012), and Thomas Lehr's September (2013).

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