Ingeborg Bachmann - Reise in die Wüste

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Thu Jun 04 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

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Goethe-Institut Ottawa | Ottawa, ON

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Entre l’amour, les mots et l’Europe. Partie de la série CinéAllemand.
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Une série de films allemands sous-titrés en français, sélectionnés autour d'une thématique définie depuis le printemps 2025, présentée par le Goethe-Institut Ottawa dans ses locaux situés à l'Alliance française d'Ottawa (352, rue MacLaren, K2P 0M6) :

Ingeborg Bachmann – Reise in die Wüste
Suisse/Autriche/Allemagne/Luxembourg, 2023, 111 min
Réalisation : Margarethe von Trotta
Avec : Vicky Krieps, Ronald Zehrfeld, Tobias Resch, Basil Eidenbenz, Luna Wedler, Marc Limpach, Roberto Carpentieri, Katharina Schmalenberg, Bettina Scheritzel, Nina Vorbrodt

Elle est autrichienne, lui suisse, elle poète, lui dramaturge, elle audacieuse et vulnérable, lui hardi et un peu bourgeois : Ingeborg Bachmann et Max Frisch sont déjà des stars internationales de la scène culturelle lorsqu'ils se rencontrent pour la première fois à Paris, à l'été 1958. Les quatre années qui suivent, ils tentent de vivre un grand amour et une relation ouverte entre Zurich, sa ville natale, et Rome, sa ville d'adoption. Frisch envie sa renommée ; Bachmann est agacée par le cliquetis de sa machine à écrire et par sa jalousie. Elle est émancipée, libre, mobile, productive ; à Berlin, elle rédige le célèbre discours « Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar » (La vérité est supportable pour l'homme). Ce n'est qu'ensuite, avec Adolf Opel dans le désert et auprès de Hans Werner Henze en Italie, qu'elle prend pleinement conscience de sa souffrance, et surtout de son intensité.
Von Trotta entremêle les périodes d’avant et d’après la catastrophe. Elle met en scène de manière directe, sobre et élégante. Ronald Zehrfeld, dans le rôle d’un corpulent fumeur de pipe, et Vicky Krieps (après Sissi dans un autre rôle culte) sont parfaits dans leurs rôles. Ce film ne traite pas de la fin tragique de Bachmann, mais de son espoir d’amour et de respect, dans la littérature comme dans la vie.

Original avec sous-titres français.
Gratuit. Don recommandé : 5 $.

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A series of German films with French subtitles, selected around a defined theme, presented by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa at the Alliance française d'Ottawa (352, rue MacLaren, K2P 0M6) since spring 2025:

Ingeborg Bachmann – Reise in die Wüste
Switzerland/Austria/Germany/Luxembourg, 2023, 111 min.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Ronald Zehrfeld, Tobias Resch, Basil Eidenbenz, Luna Wedler, Marc Limpach, Roberto Carpentieri, Katharina Schmalenberg, Bettina Scheritzel, Nina Vorbrodt

She is Austrian, he Swiss; she is a poet, he a playwright; she is a daredevil yet vulnerable, he is adventurous but a little conservative. When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabble in great love and an open relationship between his hometown of Zurich and her adopted Rome. Frisch envies her fame; Bachmann finds his typewriter clatter and his jealousy annoying. She is emancipated, experiments with a liberated existence, is mobile and productive; in Berlin, she writes the famous speech: "The Truth is Bearable for Humankind". She only realises afterwards that she is suffering, and by how much – with Adolf Opel in the desert, and with Hans Werner Henze in Italy.
Margarethe von Trotta interweaves the times before and after the catastrophe. Her direction is frank, sober and elegant. Ronald Zehrfeld as the corpulent, pipe-smoking Frisch and Vicky Krieps (in the role of another cult figure after Empress Sisi) are the perfect match. This film is not about Bachmann’s fatal end, but about her hopes for love and respect, in literature, and in life.

Original with French subtitles.
Free of charge.

Recommended donation $5.

Photo: Berlinale 2020 © Wolfgang Ennenbach

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