The ferry (Ingeborg Bachmann)

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The ferry is the first publication by Ingeborg Bachmann . The short story appeared on July 31, 1946 in the Kärntner Illustrierte in Klagenfurt . The author drafted the text in early July 1945. A revision was published on April 24, 1949 in the Wiener Tageszeitung (later Neue Österreichische Tageszeitung ).

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While waiting for customers on the banks of the mighty river, the young ferryman Josip Poje watches the windows of the manor house on the near edge of the forest. The Lord is mighty and good, but old. Josip doesn't understand why the young Maria, one of his customers, constantly carries food into the house of the Lord. The gentleman has staff. Josip and Maria both live on the bank of the river opposite the manor house.

When Maria comes one summer evening without a basket of food and wants to be translated, the young ferryman refuses and makes an awkward declaration of love for the beautiful woman. Maria does not reject Josip.

reception

The professional world is divided on the interpretation of the text. One reason could be the filigree, ambiguous articulation of the young author. In his review from 1983, Andreas Hapkemeyer mentions southern Carinthia as the location of the action, but in the case of the “ferry” he believes more in the illustration of “inner landscapes”. In contrast, Geesen simply speaks of "near-natural pictures". Josip's initial calm is shown, followed by his disquiet in the middle of the text. Consistent with this is the conclusion. Josip hid his irritation with a courageous demeanor towards Maria - at the same time fitting the theme of the story: the "woman as the object of the man". Jost Schneider interprets this subject very differently. Josip wanted to save Maria from having a relationship with the resident of the manor house; a relationship that would only bring bad luck to Maria. In his brief review of the contents, Höller reads: Maria fell for the mighty gentleman over there on the other bank. Beicken argues similarly and emphasizes Josip's campaigning for the girl's favor. Maria gives in to the pressure of the servant, who soars to be master in the above-mentioned struggle, by at least offering the prospect of accommodation.

Bartsch even sees the river as the border into the unreachable afterlife when it comes to this worldly restriction of the two young people. Albrecht and Göttsche, on the other hand, speak of profane Carinthian “socially critical homeland literature”.

literature

Text output

Used edition
  • Christine Koschel (Ed.), Inge von Weidenbaum (Ed.), Clemens Münster (Ed.): Ingeborg Bachmann. Works. Volume two: Stories. Piper, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-492-11702-3 , pp. 10-14. (Volume 1702 of the Piper series)

Secondary literature

  • Otto Bareiss, Frauke Ohloff: Ingeborg Bachmann. A bibliography. With a foreword by Heinrich Böll. Piper, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-492-02366-5 .
  • Peter Beicken : Ingeborg Bachmann. Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32277-8 . (Beck'sche series: authors' books, vol. 605)
  • Michael Matthias Schardt (Ed.): About Ingeborg Bachmann. Reviews - Portraits - Appreciations (1952–1992). Reception documents from four decades. Igel Verlag, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-927104-53-1 .
  • Kurt Bartsch: Ingeborg Bachmann. 2nd Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-12242-5 . (Metzler Collection. Volume 242)
  • Mechthild Geesen: The destruction of the individual in the context of the loss of experience and language in the modern age. Figure conception and narrative perspective Ingeborg Bachmanns. Schäuble, Rheinfelden (Baden) 1998, ISBN 3-87718-836-2 . (Diss. Munich 1998)
  • Hans Höller : Ingeborg Bachmann. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-50545-2 .
  • Monika Albrecht (Hrsg.), Dirk Göttsche (Hrsg.): Bachmann-Handbuch. Life - work - effect . Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01810-5 .
  • Sigrid Weigel : Ingeborg Bachmann. Legacies in compliance with the confidentiality of letters . dtv , Munich 2003 (Zsolnay, Vienna 1999), ISBN 3-423-34035-5 , pp. 53–56.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Höller, p. 178, entry 1946
  2. ↑ Kärntner Illustrierte: Fig. 4: The first publication by Ingeborg Bachmann, the short story: "The ferry". (Literature archive of the Austrian National Library .) Retrieved on June 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 602 above
  4. ↑ Bareiss, Ohloff, p. 17, entry 33
  5. ↑ Weigel, p. 56, 1. Zvo
  6. ↑ Schardt, pp. 269-270
  7. ↑ Schardt, p. 269, 17. Zvo
  8. ↑ Geesen, pp. 68-74
  9. ↑ Geesen, p. 74, 5th Zvu
  10. ↑ Geesen, p. 71, 8. Zvo, p. 73, 17. Zvo
  11. ↑ Geesen, p. 74, 16. Zvo
  12. ↑ Albrecht and Göttsche, pp. 105-106
  13. ↑ Albrecht and Göttsche, p. 106, left column, 16. Zvo
  14. ↑ Höller, p. 36
  15. ↑ Beicken, p. 61 above
  16. ↑ Kurt Bartsch, p. 43 below
  17. ↑ Albrecht and Göttsche, p. 3, right column, 5. Zvo