biography
pronunciation:
[bakhman]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1926–73)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Klagenfurt, S Austria. She studied at the University of Vienna (1946–50), and in 1953 her first collection of poems Die gestundete zeit appeared in Germany. A member of Gruppe 47, she lived in Naples and Rome with the composer Hans Werner Henze, and in 1965 settled permanently in Rome. Her lyrical works are notably vivid and terse; she also wrote prose, radio plays, and libretti, her favourite themes being existential threat, love, and problems of the self. Major works include the novels Malina (1971), Der Fall Franza and Requiem für Fanny Goldmann (both fragmentary, published in 1979), short stories such as Gier (1974), and for radio Zikaden (1955). She was awarded the Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1964. |
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