BACHMANN PUR | Texts on feminism | Simonetta Solder

 

 

Event on the occasion of the current exhibition at the Museum Casa di Goethe Ingeborg Bachmann “I only exist when I write”

“Fascism is the first thing in the relationship between a man and a woman” says Ingeborg Bachmann in Gerda Haller’s documentary film from 1973 (featured entirely in the exhibition). In fact, the relationship between man and woman was a recurring theme for the Austrian writer, which she explored in many of her works. It is often about gender roles, the exploitation of power relations, infidelity, abandonment, but also about the search for autonomy and a new female self-confidence.
During the event, the Italian actress Simonetta Solder will read selected texts by Ingeborg Bachmann on the relationship between the sexes and on feminism – from Im Himmel und auf Erden to Undine geht and Malina, thus bringing us closer to an important aspect of the Austrian writer.

Simonetta Solder (*Klagenfurt) is a trained translator and actress. After studying in Vienna, she attended the HB Studio in New York and the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. In the theatre she worked with Giorgio Pressburger, Israel Horovitz and Francesca Comencini, and also took part in The Walks by Rimini Protokoll. Together with director Paola Rota and musician Teho Teardo, she worked on the theatre project Illegal Helpers by Maxi Obexer and directed the theatre lecture Gertrude, Lucia e le altre. Le donne del rivoluzionario Manzoni by and with Eleonora Mazzoni and Il fu Mattia Pascal with Giorgio Marchesi at Teatro Ghione. Her theatre translations include the American playwright Israel Horovitz, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Robert Woelfl, Kevin Rittberger, Azar Mortazavi and Bernhard Studlar. As an actress, she has appeared in TV and cinema productions directed by Giacomo Campiotti, Giacomo Battiato, Riccardo Milani, Marco Tullio Giordana, Ivan Cotroneo and Michele Soavi.

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