24.08.2026
"Malina" by Ingeborg Bachmann as a "reading performance" on the MQ Summer Stage
August 28, 7:00 p.m. | Posted by Sabine Mitterecker
The great novel *Malina* by Ingeborg Bachmann—one of the most significant German-language authors of the 20th century—will be presented in a “reading performance” featuring Juliane Werner and Lens Kühleitner, directed by Sabine Mitterecker, to mark the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth, on August 28, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. on the MQ Summer Stage.
“There is no war and peace… It is war. And you are the war. You yourself.”
The great novel *Malina* by Ingeborg Bachmann—one of the most significant German-language authors of the 20th century—will be presented in a “reading performance” featuring Juliane Werner and Lens Kühleitner, directed by Sabine Mitterecker, to mark the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth, on August 28, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. on the MQ Summer Stage.
*Malina*, published in 1971, captivates and stirs the soul: the experiences of the literary characters resonate in the present day. In the shadow of their abysses, the struggle for the beauty of language is ever-present—a language that, as Ingeborg Bachmann put it, serves as a placeholder for the human voice and clings to hope, no matter how the word “future” is spelled. Using radically poetic means, Ingeborg Bachmann—in this sole novel published during her lifetime, which serves as the prelude to the “Ways of Death” cycle—was the first woman in post-1945 German-language literature to describe, in an incomparable way, the lingering effects of war, destruction, and betrayal in society—as reflected in the relationships between men and women—in an incomparable way. Let us banish from our minds the image of the delicate, shy, young Ingeborg Bachmann. This evening celebrates one of the most important Austrian and German-language authors, whose work can perhaps only now be read free from the grip of a male gaze and biographical attributions.
“…a biography is too comfortable a bed for Bachmann’s works, and we are not entitled to such a bed.”
A production by INNSBRUCK INTERNATIONAL. Biennial of the Arts 2026, premiered on May 1, 2026, Rights: Suhrkamp Verlag
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