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The great Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann died in Rome but was buried in Klagenfurt, the city of her childhood. Only days later, Uwe Johnson made a pilgrimage to her grave site and to Klagenfurt itself, which Bachmann had always promised to show him. Johnson re-creates her presence by layering the cultural, physical, and historical landscape of the city - from its picturesque lake and totemic dragon to a personal visit from Hitler during Bachmann's childhood - with Bachmann's letters, interviews, and published writings. The result is a biographical montage that explores the vast forces behind a single extraordinary life. A Trip to Klagenfurt illuminates the writers' friendship as well as Johnson's entire generation.
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Gesine and her daughter, Marie, emigrate from West Germany to New York City, where they are caught up in the political events of 1968
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Uwe Johnson was born on July 20, 1934, in Kammin, Pomerania (now Kamień Pomorski, Poland). His father was a Swedish-descent peasant from Mecklenburg and his mother was from Pommern. At the end of World War II in 1945, he fled with his family to Anklam (West Pomerania), his father died in a Soviet internment camp (Fünfeichen). Later the family eventually settled in Güstrow.
There, Uwe Johnson attended school in Güstrow until 1952. He went on to study German philology, first in Rostock (1952–1954), then in Leipzig (1954–1956). His Diplomarbeit (final thesis) was on Ernst Barlach. Due to his lack of political support for the Communist regime of East Germany, he was suspended from the University on June 17, 1953, but was later reinstated.
During the winter of 1953, he began writing. His first novel was Ingrid Babendererde: Reifeprüfung 1953, but it was refused by several East German publishers when he declined to alter it to suit their ideology. He eventually found a West German publisher for his second novel, Mutmassungen über Jakob (1959; Speculations About Jakob). Its modernist narrative and its frank engagement with the problems faced daily by German citizens brought Johnson critical acclaim. Aware that his work would not be published in East Germany as long as he wrote what he wished to write and unable—because of his political record—to find a job there, he moved to West Berlin shortly after publishing the novel. This move was an event he distinctly did not consider “escape. ”
He continued to experiment with narrative and examine the meaning of a divided land with the publication of Das dritte Buch über Achim (1961; The Third Book About Achim); Karsch, und andere Prosa (1964; "Karsch, and Other Prose"), a collection of shorter fiction that included the novella Eine Reise wegwohin (An Absence); and Zwei Ansichten (1965; Two Views). In each of these works, Johnson’s narrative abruptly shifts from one consciousness or setting to another; words assume different meanings when used by different characters; and objects and events are described with intricate exactness, as if to emphasize their constancy against the mutability of emotions, memory, and human expression.
From 1966 to 1968, Johnson lived in New York. There he began his masterwork, the tetralogy Jahrestage: aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl (1970–73, 1983; Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl). In it he used a montage technique, combining newspaper clippings, notes, and diary entries—as well as the presence of a writer named Uwe Johnson—to examine the issues that continued to engage him. He published the first three volumes upon his return to West Berlin. In 1974 Johnson moved to England, ostensibly to complete his tetralogy. There he underwent a personal crisis, and, though he continued to publish other work, he suffered from writer’s block; the last volume of Jahrestage was not finished until the year before his death.
Johnson’s later works included a reflection on the poet Ingeborg Bachmann, Eine Reise nach Klagenfurt (1974; A Trip to Klagenfurt: In the Footsteps of Ingeborg Bachmann), published after her death; Berliner Sachen (1975; “Berlin Matters”), a volume of previously published essays, including two in English; and Begleitumstände: Frankfurter Vorlesungen (1980; “Circumstances: Frankfurt Lectures”), a collection of autobiographical lectures he gave to reestablish the poetics chair at the University of Frankfurt. Living an isolated life in England and, by many accounts, drinking heavily, Johnson died at home on or about February 22, 1984, in Sheerness, England. His body was not found until 13 March that year. At the time of his death, he had been planning a one-year stay in New York City.
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Once in the West, Johnson became a member of Gruppe 47, a writers’ association.
In 1962 Uwe Johnson married Elisabeth Schmidt, the same year a daughter was born to them.
