Morgennebel. Das Frühstücksseminar

25 years Literaturhaus.
Hovering. A program of contrasts in difficult times
with Helmut Böttiger
Ingeborg Bachmann lent herself to projections early on. June 25 marks the 100th anniversary of her birth; for many a feminist icon, for others a groundless, self-destructive woman. Her texts repeatedly deal with the oscillation between the longing for commitment and the will to "be free". She often takes the motif of unconditional love to its ultimate consequence - a love that is permeated by the impossibility of being lived. For Ingeborg Bachmann, acting in the in-between, in the ambiguous, in a form of floating, is of radical aesthetic and existential consequence. In the second breakfast seminar of the anniversary program "Schweben. A program of contrasts in difficult times", he will explore these spaces in Bachmann's work. Born in Creglingen in 1956, the expert on German post-war literature has lived in Berlin for many years. In 2013, he received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for his analysis of the history of Gruppe 47.

Supported by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, Literature Summer 2026