The Radio Family

Ingeborg Bachmann, Mike Mitchell, Joseph McVeigh

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Seagull Books London Ltd
01 September 2022

Theatre Studies; Plays & playscripts

Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature

"Ingeborg Bachmann (19261973) is recognised as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her poems, short stories and novels, and won numerous awards for her work.

Nearly twenty years after her death, during an estate sale in Vienna, fifteen episodes of the popular Viennese radio drama The Radio Family were discovered. Remarkably, they happened to be written by Ingeborg Bachmann herself, who had been a writer on the show just after she graduated university. The Radio Family was a popular radio soap opera broadcast in the American sector of occupied Vienna in the 1950s. The programme focused on a middle-class Viennese family and their everyday life. Topics ranged from birthday parties and holiday plans to profiteering and currency fraud in the commercial sector, and Austrians' involvement in the Nazi past. All fifteen scripts have now been compiled and masterfully translated, revealing an early and significant piece of Bachmann's body of work, while simultaneously offering a rare glimpse into Vienna's quotidian history.

""The most intelligent and important woman writer our land has produced this century."" Thomas Bernhard"

By: Ingeborg Bachmann
Afterword by: Joseph McVeigh
Translated by: Mike Mitchell
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 30mm
ISBN: 9780857428172
ISBN 10: 0857428179
Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Episode 1: Lending Money | Guido Episode 4: Birthday | Wolferl, Liesl Episode 9: Holiday Plans Episode 10: Lumbago Episode 15: Back to School Episode 18: Horoscope Episode 20: The D. P. Episode 21: Archduke Guido Episode 24: The Tedious Dr. Panigl Episode 29: The Last Sunday before Christmas Episode 32: The Florianis Go to the Theatre Episode 41: A Birthday Surprise: A Child is Coming from Holland Episode 45: Psychology in Purkersdorf Episode 54: The Art Exhibition Episode 63: Puppet Show II Afterword Joseph McVeigh Appendix A: Those Involved Appendix B: List of Episodes Appendix C: Notes on the Typescripts

Ingeborg Bachmann is the author of Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina, and Simultan, among others.