Autobiographischer Rückblick und/oder autobiographische Vorausschau? Zum Verschwinden des Ich in Ilse Aichingers autobiographischem ‚Projekt‘
An Autobiographical Retrospect and/or an Autobiographical Glance at the Future. The Disappearance of the Self in Ilse Aichinger’s Autobiographical

Summary/Abstract: The works of the late Ilse AICHINGER, i.e. the texts published after the edition of her collected works, clearly express an autobiographical desire which, however, can never manifest itself in the form of an autobiography. This “failure” seems to be inevitable and consistent within the poetological way of seeing herself. This article analyzes the texts of the volume Film und Verhängnis. Blitzlichter auf ein Leben (2001) in order to place them within modern “Autobiographical Writing”. Not only the inevitable failure of an autobiography is clearly expressed but also the explosive nature of her project in regard to autobiographical attempts which only want to look back as AICHINGER’s project tries to include the future as well.

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