Ingeborg Bachmann –
Senza Casa
Autobiographical sketches,
notes and diary entries
'The attempt to express yourself, to feel, to share the shadows…this is a very dark thicket that withstands any blade.' – Ingeborg Bachmann
With Ingeborg Bachmann's only recently published autobiographical sketches, a previously unknown treasure of insights into the poet's life full of poesy, emotion and humour has been unearthed. The notes and diary entries, in part made with long periods of time between them, clearly illustrate the author's lack of a sense of belonging to one place, her restless vagabondage between many stations and languages. Accounts from the Italian homes she shared with Hans Werner Henze on the island of Ischia and in Naples, stories of stays in Vienna, Klagenfurt, Paris and Rome and reading tours throughout Germany reveal the tension between the utopia of an unfettered bohemian lifestyle and the worry about making ends meet. What emerges from Ingeborg Bachmann's fragmentary notes is the courage to face an insecure existence as a space for experimentation and experiences and an essentially homeless life, that self-same life senza casa. Sophie Rois congenially lends her voice to the great 20th century poet and prose writer.
Apart from an interlude at the Deutsches Theater from 2018 to 2022, Sophie Rois has been a member of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz ensemble since 1993. She worked closely with the directors Frank Castorf and René Pollesch for many years. She has been awarded the Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring prize, and has appeared in numerous TV films and movies. She won several awards for her starring role in the movie 3 (director: Tom Tykwer), including the Deutscher Filmpreis German film prize 2011. She won the Grimme-Preis television award for her portrayal of Erika Mann in the TV miniseries The Manns. The Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung foundation also awarded her the Theaterpreis Berlin.
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