Ingeborg Bachmann “I only exist when I write”

OPENING: 12.3.2025, 7 p.m.

Introduction:

Gregor H. Lersch, director of the Museum Casa di Goethe

Teresa Indjein, director of the Forum Austriaco di Cultura Roma

Andreas Krüger, head of cultural affairs of the German Embassy Rome

Massimiliano Smeriglio, councillor for culture of Roma Capitale

Exhibition 13.3. – 31.8.2025

She is an icon of 20th century literary history and inspires readers worldwide to this day: Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973). The extensive exhibition shows her life and work and focuses on the places that shaped her: the Klagenfurt of her childhood, the Vienna of her early fame, Munich, Zurich,
Berlin and, again and again, Rome. Books and documents are presented, alongside her relationships with Max Frisch, Henry Kissinger and Marie Luise Kaschnitz, as well as numerous photographs from all phases of the life of the equally self-confident and vulnerable writer.

An exhibition of the Literaturhaus München and the Literaturmuseum of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in collaboration with the Museum Casa di Goethe

With kindkly support of Forum Austriaco di Cultura Roma