In heaven and on earth (Ingeborg Bachmann)

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In Heaven and on Earth is a short story by Ingeborg Bachmann , which was published on May 29, 1949 in the “ Wiener Tageszeitung ”.

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action

Justin lets his anger run wild. He hits Amelie in the face. The innocent knows that the beloved has financial difficulties. After only a brief moment of reflection, she gives him her little, hard-earned money. He takes it and goes. When he comes back he has lost all money. He asks her for a favor, but remains silent, stolen property has to be fetched. Amelie goes and brings what you want. When the police are at the door the next morning, Amelie realizes her theft and jumps out the window; falls deep into death.

reception

Jost Schneider tears up the little story “as clichéd and like a woodcut”. Even Mechthild Geesen, the text appears "heavily overdrawn" after its end, but it penetrates to the core: With her suicide, Amelie takes on the guilt of her lover. In addition, the final leap of death symbolizes the love beyond death that is echoed in the title - also in the sense of salvation from evil. Although the negotiated theft could not be dealt with forensic purposes, everything would still be clear: The simple-minded Amelie did not appear self-confident, denied herself, got into the role of a martyr, called her good and on top of that endured Justin's self-stylization as a pitiable, misunderstood victim. Amelie credibly characterizes Beicken by assuming her ego weakness in terms of depth psychology .

The woman is driven to death by the man.

interpretation

Weigel uses a work by Freud from 1915 to investigate Amelie's guilt: instincts and instinctual fates.

literature

Text output

Used edition
  • 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. 15-18.

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).
  • Kurt Bartsch: Ingeborg Bachmann. Metzler, Stuttgart 1997 (2nd edition, Metzler Collection. Volume 242). ISBN 3-476-12242-5 .
  • 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 1998. ISBN 3-87718-836-2 (Diss. Munich 1998).
  • 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. 61-63.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 602, second entry from above
  2. ↑ Bareiss, Ohloff 1978, p. 17, entry 36
  3. ↑ Albrecht and Göttsche 2002, p. 107, left column, 6. Zvo
  4. ↑ Geesen 1998, pp. 75-81
  5. ↑ Geesen 1998, p. 79, 9. Zvo
  6. ↑ Beicken 1988, p. 61 below
  7. ↑ Bartsch 1997, p. 44 below
  8. ↑ Weigel 2003, p. 62 middle
  9. ↑ Sigmund Freud: Treibe und Triebschicksale (PDF; 148 kB); see also drive theory , entry 1 under "individual evidence"