In late May of 1952, a twenty-five-year-old Austrian read her poems in a near whisper at a gathering of prominent post-war (mostly) German writers, critics, artists, and intellectuals known as Gruppe ...

Veteran director Margarethe von Trotta delivers a mawkish melodrama more interested in poet and author Bachmann's romantic life than her work. Then again, the movie’s Bachmann would be unlikely to ...

Theirs was an unlikely friendship. Or, as they would later wryly comment, an "exemplary" one. He came from that once vibrant centre of Jewish-German culture, Czernowitz, Bukovina, and had survived a ...