Typed letter signed
Austria, around 1968
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) - Austrian writer
Bachmann apparently rejected an offer by the then vice-president of the PEN Club Franz Theodor Csokor
Sheet size: 29,7 x 21 cm, folded half-page
In very fine condition

The present, typewritten letter with autographed signature by the Austrian poet and prose writer Ingeborg Bachmann is to be dated around 1968. Here she writes to Franz Theodor Csokor, the then Vice-President of the PEN Club, short for poets essayists novelists, a writers' association, which was founded in London in 1921. Some words from it read as followed ‘...leider macht es mir eigene Arbeit unmöglich, die mir [...] zugedachte Stelle als Delegierte der österreichischen Gruppe anzunehmen...’. Apparently Bachmann rejected here a job offer Csokor proposed to her.



The typewritten letter is in very fine condition. It was folded half-page and smoothed. The paper bears a watermark of the company EXTRA TENAX.



Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973)

Ingeborg Bachmann was born 1926 in Klagenfurt. At a young age she began to compose music and writing poetry. From 1945 to 1950 she studied philosophy, psychology, German philology and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna. Her doctor father was the philosopher and scientific theorist Victor Kraft. Bachmann won the Literature Prize of the Gruppe 47 for the book of poems ‘Die gestundete Zeit’ in 1953. Since 1977, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize is awarded annually at the Klagenfurt Literature competition, it is considered one of the most important literary prizes in Germany.