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Matinee featuring a reading and panel discussion to mark the 100th anniversary of Ingeborg Bachmann’s birth

 


Susanne Kogler from the Department of Arts and Musicology will be taking part in a matinee at the Salzburg Literature Festival to mark the 100th anniversary of Ingeborg Bachmann’s birth, held in the Europasaal at Edmundsburg. Together with Manfred Mittermayer, she will speak on stage about Ingeborg Bachmann and her intellectual and emotional approaches to music in general and to concrete music in particular. Cassandra Rühmling will read selected passages.

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