. Both Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan are members of the most important group of German-speaking writers after 1945. They met for the first time in Vienna in May 1948. A poetic dialogue emerged from their relationship which was reflected in the texts of both authors by references to certain motives, locations and quotations. But how exactly was this accomplished? How are we to understand the dialogue between these two authors in the aftermath of national socialism? Relentless effort to take refuge in formulation – how are we to interpret this nowadays? This course focuses on Bachmann’s Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics (1959-1960), which are also available in a Hebrew translation, as well as on Celan’s Bremer Rede (1958) and his Meridian-Rede (1960).
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