INGEBORG BACHMANN (1926-1973)

Austrian poet, dramatist, and novelist, a leading voice in post-war German literature. During her lifetime Bachmann, was known first and foremost as a poet, but she ceased to write poetry in the 1960s and focused on prose. In these later works feminist themes came to the fore. Bachmann was a reclusive, but socially engaged writer. Most of the fifties and from 1965 onward, she lived in Rome, where she died in a fire in her apartment.