Über Grenzen sprechend

You are cordially invited to the book presentation of Über Grenzen sprechend - Ingeborg Bachmann, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Hilde Domin, Nelly Sachs – Briefe. Under the direction of Barbara Agnese. At the Goethe-Institut Montreal, November 8 2023 at 6 :30 pm.

Ingeborg Bachmann / Marie Luise Kaschnitz / Hilde Domin / Nelly Sachs
Über Grenzen sprechend - Briefe
Hg. von Barbara Agnese
Berlin/München: Suhrkamp/Piper 2023 | © Suhrkamp/Piper About the book
Ingeborg Bachmann was in contact with central protagonists of German-language literature. Her correspondence with Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Hilde Domin and Nelly Sachs, which are made accessible here for the first time, provide an impressive insight into the living conditions, literary work, poetics, and political commitment of women writers after 1945. Across generations and borders, different relationships emerge between the correspondents: Bachmann's friendship with Marie Luise Kaschnitz, which began in Rome, the pragmatic collaboration with Hilde Domin and the lyrical conversation with Nelly Sachs. The main thing that the correspondence has in common is the question of how to continue living and writing after the Shoah. The commentary explains the letters against the background of contemporary history and the literary world and attempts, from today's perspective, to bring the works of these authors into conversation with one another. (suhrkamp.de)

About Barbara Agnese
Barbara Agnese is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Montreal. After studying philosophy in Pisa, Frankfurt am Main and Vienna, she taught at the universities of Vienna and Paris (Sorbonne Nouvelle).
Research focus: Ingeborg Bachmann, Nelly Sachs, comparative Shoah literature and the relationship between philosophy and literature.