Undine goes

Undine geht is a short story by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann and comes from her first volume of short stories, “The Thirtieth Year” (1961). "Undine goes" represents the final text. The narrative, designed as a monologue, represents a modern examination of the Undine material known since the Romantic era . "Undine goes" is one of Ingeborg Bachmann's most famous stories.

References to other works about the Undine

Jean Giraudoux's work on Undine, like “Undine goes”, has a character named Hans. This is in “Undine goes” for all men.

Interpretative approaches

In a much-cited interview on November 5, 1964, Ingeborg Bachmann replied to the question of whether the story “Undine goes” is a self-confession with the following words: “It is a self-confession for me. I just think there is enough misunderstanding about it. Because the readers and also the listener immediately identify - the story is written in the first-person form - this I with the author. That is by no means the case. Undine is not a woman, not even a living being, but, to put it with Büchner, 'art, oh art'. And the author, in this case me, is to be found on the other side, that is, among those named Hans. "

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First print in FAZ , May 25, 1961
- again in the volume of short stories The thirtieth year , Piper, Munich 1961
“We have to find true sentences.” Conversations and interviews. ibid. 1983

Secondary literature

Peter von Matt : betrayal of love. The faithless in literature. Dtv , Munich 1991, p. 240 ff. (Interpretation)
Mona El Nawab: Ingeborg Bachmann's “Undine goes”. A historical comparison of material and motifs with Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué “Undine” and Jean Giraudoux 's “Ondine”. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 1993. ISBN 3-88479-764-6
Ruth Neubauer-Petzoldt: Boundaries of love. Ingeborg Bachmann's “Undine goes”. In: Mathias Mayer (ed.): Works by Ingeborg Bachmann . Reclam , Stuttgart 2000. pp. 156-175. ISBN 3-15-017517-8
Jean Firges : Ingeborg Bachmann: “Malina.” The destruction of the female self. Exemplary series literature and philosophy, 26. Sonnenberg, Annweiler 2009. ISBN 9783933264534 . Esp. P. 48–63: “Undine as a figure of identification .” With bibliography

notes

↑ The study examines three constitutive elements in Bachmann's work: first, the role of love as the basic energy of her literary production, second, the examination of the legacy of fascism in the thinking of post-war society, third, the literary doppelganger of the writer and her attempt to defend the position of women To determine the author in the symbolic order of the male-determined literary world. The three approaches threatened with failure gradually lead to the destruction of the writer's feminine ego. The study interprets the following texts by Bachmann: the radio play " The Good God of Manhattan ", the poem "Mein Vogel", the novel "Malina" and this story.

[1] The study examines three constitutive elements in Bachmann's work: first, the role of love as the basic energy of her literary production, second, the examination of the legacy of fascism in the thinking of post-war society, third, the literary doppelganger of the writer and her attempt to defend the position of women To determine the author in the symbolic order of the male-determined literary world. The three approaches threatened with failure gradually lead to the destruction of the writer's feminine ego. The study interprets the following texts by Bachmann: the radio play " The Good God of Manhattan ", the poem "Mein Vogel", the novel "Malina" and this story.