A business with dreams
A business with dreams is a short story by Ingeborg Bachmann , which was recorded for radio on November 3, 1952 by the NWDR Hannover. After the narration, the author wrote the radio play of the same name , which is similar in content. It was broadcast by Rot-Weiß-Rot Wien on February 28, 1952 .
content
action
The anonymous first-person narrator, a meticulous, intimidated employee who wants to please his superior, strolls through the city center after work. He examines the displays in a shop window and enters the associated shop. The seller pushes it deeper into the junk shop and stops in front of a stand that is filled with small packages. In every package, a dream is offered for sale. The shop must be darkened for the demonstration. The narrator looks at a couple of dreams and wants to buy the one in which Anna is threatened by a large black bird. Anna broke up with the narrator some time ago in real life.
In the shop, dreams are paid for with time, not with money. The narrator has no time and has the package with the bird's dream put back for him.
When the narrator finally wants to buy the dream package after days of hesitation, the junk shop no longer exists. The narrator falls ill and has to stay in bed for a few weeks. When he can get up again, his manager fires him. Now he has a lot of time.
reception
Schneider criticizes the parabolic shape and points to the “criticism of capitalism”. Ingeborg Bachmann also reprimands Hollywood for deceiving the viewer for a piece of his life.
It could be that Ingeborg Bachmann considered dreams to be noteworthy when she wrote in her poem “Toter Hafen”: “The gold is washed from dreams”.
literature
Text output
- First publication and edition used
- Christine Koschel (Ed.), Inge von Weidenbaum (Ed.), Clemens Münster (Ed.): Ingeborg Bachmann. Works. Volume two: Stories . 609 pages. Piper, Munich 1978 (5th edition 1993), ISBN 3-492-11702-3 , pp. 41-47
Secondary literature
- Christine Koschel (Ed.), Inge von Weidenbaum (Ed.), Clemens Münster (Ed.): Ingeborg Bachmann. Works. First volume: poems. Radio plays. Libretti. Translations . 683 pages. Piper, Munich 1978 (5th edition 1993), ISBN 3-492-11701-5
- Kurt Bartsch: Ingeborg Bachmann. Metzler, Stuttgart 1997 (2nd edition, Metzler Collection. Volume 242). ISBN 3-476-12242-5
- Monika Albrecht (Hrsg.), Dirk Göttsche (Hrsg.): Bachmann-Handbuch. Life - work - effect . Metzler, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-476-01810-5
- Christine Steinhoff: Ingeborg Bachmann's Poetology of Dreams. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-8260-3862-4