Ingeborg Bachman's telling stories

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Ingeborg Bachmann (1925-1973), an Austrian postwar author whose name and work have become widely recognized in German-speaking countries, is still relatively unknown in the United States, even though her writings deal with important contemporary and universal concerns such as war, xenophobia, and gender relations. This volume explores Bachmann's prose in a socio-cultural and historical context by demonstrating how she applies elements from traditional German and Austrian fairy tales to come to terms with events of the Third Reich and her reactions to the Holocaust. Krick-Aigner examines intertextual references to the fairy tale in German Romanticism and explores the role of the writer. This study offers English-speaking readers an interdisciplinary reading of the author's work.