Ingeborg Bachmann und Paul Celan als Antihelden in Hans Weigels Unvollendete Symphonie. Der Schlüsselroman oder die Kunst der Verschleierung
Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan as Fictional Antiheroes in Hans Weigel’s Unvollendete Symphonie. The Art of Veiling and the Verisimilitude in the Autobiographical Novel

Summary/Abstract: The new wave of emerging hybrid writing forms use intertextuality and suspense maintaining techniques adopted from drama more and more. This is the case of the novel Unvollendete Symphonie written by Hans Weigel. The author and theatre critic reconstructs, via writing, the fictional personae of the poets Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan during the insecure times of post-war Vienna. Applying the dramatic device of disguise and fleshing out hyperbolic characters, the alleged roman à clef contrasts the two antiheroes with the real hero of the text, the assumed alter ego of the author, Peter Taussig. Drama, intrigues and conspiracies define their actions and adventures. To which extent can the biographical publications regarding Celan’s stay in Vienna shed some light upon the complex relationships that reside within the novel’s plot? What is the manner in which Bachmann and Celan have been reconstructed from real life into fiction and what makes them antiheroes? These are just some of the questions I hopefully wish to answer to in this paper.

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