Correspondence: Book Reading
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Goethe-Institut presents a reading from the rare collection of letters exchanged by two post-World War II German writers, Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. Celan, one of the major poets of the era, and Bachmann, the Austrian novelist, poet and playwright, composed passionate letters to each other from 1948 until 1961. Their correspondence forms a moving testimony to love in the age after Auschwitz. In addition to the roughly 200 letters, the volume includes an important exchange between Bachmann and Gisele Celan-Lestrange, who married Celan in 1951, as well as letters between Celan and Swiss writer Max Frisch.
Correspondence, 22 July, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, 16 CMH Road, Indiranagar Stage I, Bengaluru. For more information, visit goethe.de/bangalore
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