Within the well-known story Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist, the great horse dealer from Brandenburg turns into a feared terrorist who desperately fights for his rights. However who’s Michaela Kohlhaas? She is the heroine within the Leipziger’s present novel writer Heike Geissler. Michaela Kohlhaas leaves her middle-class existence, travels via Germany in a coated wagon and fights for extra justice on the earth. We focus on in our ZEIT e-book podcast: Is that this a profitable replace of Kleist? Or one thing utterly totally different? And what’s this contemporary system buster all about?
It might be June twenty fifth Ingeborg Bachmann turned 100 years previous. We ask ourselves: Why can we nonetheless love them a lot? What does she should say to us? And we’re speaking about one in every of her autobiographical tales: 3 ways to the lake. The story was printed a 12 months earlier than her demise and incorporates all of her main life themes. How does a girl reside in a male society? How heavy does the previous weigh on us? Why did Bachmann really feel like a stranger in all places?
The Italian author Fleur Jaeggy, now 85 years previous, was an in depth pal of Ingeborg Bachmann. In a poignant little e-book of reminiscences she tells of her pal’s final days. And he or she makes critical allegations in opposition to Bachmann’s Austrian household and her German associates. We focus on Jaeggy’s thesis: Might Ingeborg Bachmann have been saved after the intense hearth accident in her residence in Rome in 1973? The ability of this little e-book exhibits that Bachmann nonetheless leaves nobody detached.
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Literature references:
- Heike Geissler. Michaela Kohlhaas. Suhrkamp Publishing. 253 pages, 24 euros
- Fleur Jaeggy. The final days of Ingeborg Bachmann. Suhrkamp Publishing. 44 pages. 16 euros
- Ingeborg Bachmann. 3 ways to the lake. In: Concurrently. Piper Publishing. 224 pages. 11 euros