Ingeborg Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1926 and passed away in Rome at the untimely age of 47. She was the author of a remarkable and important body of work in German literature from the second half of the 20th century. She was a poet and writer who distinguished herself – from the publication of her very first poems – for the richness of her language.

Ingeborg Bachmann was above all a rare and committed thinker. Profoundly affected by the Hitlerian era, and particularly by the Anschluss of 1938, when she was just 12 years old, she never ceased denouncing the various manifestations of fascism and protesting war and violence.

Such is the sense of her reflections on language at the heart of her entire oeuvre.