Friday, February 9, 2007

Ingeborg Bachmann


















June 25, 1926 Klagenfurt, Austria - October 17, 1973 Rome, Italy

Poet, writer,essay writer from Austria. Ingeborg Bachmann work crosses with Paul Celan or Walter Benjamin. Poetic language as a iluminate chance, against world horror. She were member of the post-war literature group named Gruppe 47 Paul Celan and Gunter Grass are samples of the group members.
The prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, awarded yearly in Klagenfurt, is named after her death.


SHADOWS ROSES SHADOWS

Under a strange sky
shadows roses
shadows
in a strange land
between roses and shadows
in a strange water
my shadow


Ingeborg Bachmann, Bigger Ursa Invocation
Translation: IP

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