2023-10-12 14:58:55
October 12, 2023, 9:00 PM
“Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert” – that’s the name of the new film by the grande dame of German feature films, director Margarethe von Trotta. In 1981 she was the first woman to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The reason at the time was, among other things, her film “The Leading Time”, in which von Trotta dealt with the two sisters Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin. One was an editor at the women’s magazine “Emma”, the other a member of the terrorist group RAF. Von Trotta, who was born in Berlin in 1942, has repeatedly focused on the great women of German history in her films, for example in her films regarding Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt. For the film regarding Ingeborg Bachmann, she spent months in the Austrian National Library in Vienna reading the correspondence between Bachmann and her great love, the Swiss writer Max Frisch, and other original documents. The result is a filmic portrait in which Bachmann is sketched as a radical writer and an uncompromising person who lives and loves.
In conversation with Renata Schmidtkunz, Margarethe von Trotta talks regarding her own style of precise and thoroughly researched approach to her large female figures.
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Books regarding the show:
Heinz Bachmann, 2023, “Ingeborg Bachmann. My sister. Memories and pictures”, Piper Verlag
Hans Höller, Renate Langer, Thomas Strässle and Barbara Wiedemann (eds.), 2022, “Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch. We didn’t do it well. The correspondence”, Suhrkamp-Verlag
Conversations between Margarethe von Trotta and Thilo Wydra, 2021, “Being present”, Kampa Verlag
Helmut Böttinger, 2017, “We say dark things to ourselves: The love story between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan”,
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Ingeborg Bachmann, 2014, “Salzburger Bachmann Edition – work edition in 30 volumes”, Suhrkamp
Ingeborg Bachmann, Hans Werner Henze, 2013, “Letters of a Friendship”, Piper Verlag
Hans Höller, 1999, “Ingeborg Bachmann – a biography”,
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Films by Margarethe von Trotta: (an excerpt)
1975: The lost honor of Katharina Blum or: How violence arises and where it can lead (co-director and co-screenplay)
1978: The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (screenplay with Luisa Francia)
1979: Sisters or The Balance of Happiness
1981: The leaden time
1986: Rosa Luxemburg
1994: The Promise
2003: Rosenstrasse
2009: Vision – From the life of Hildegard von Bingen
2012: Hannah Arendt
2023: Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the desert
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