Opening: Wednesday 12 March at 7.00 p.m.

She is an icon of 20th century literary history, every new publication from her estate is still an event today, the fascination of her work and her person remains unbroken: Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973), the great Austrian poet, is being honoured in Rome in a extensive exhibition.
Bachmann continues to inspire biographers and filmmakers, literary scholars and generations of readers worldwide. In co-operation with the Literaturhaus München and the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, the Museum Casa di Goethe in Rome is showing documents and testimonies that illustrate the extent to which Ingeborg Bachmann’s life followed an aesthetic concept that is inseparable from her work. Previously unpublished documents from her estate are also on display here, including letters from Max Frisch, Henry Kissinger, Marie Luise Kaschnitz and Nelly Sachs.
The five sections of the exhibition focus on the places that shaped Ingeborg Bachmann: the Klagenfurt of her childhood, the Vienna of her early fame, Munich, Zurich, Berlin and again and again Rome – ‘I learnt here to live’. The exhibition shows Ingeborg Bachmann in numerous large-format photographs from all phases of her life as an equally self-confident and vulnerable artist, as an early media star and style icon, as a political writer and ‘unhoused’ woman.

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

With the kind support of the Forum Austriaco di Cultura Roma.

Photo: Ingeborg Bachmann, Rome, 1962, © Mario Dondero / Familienarchiv Bachmann