Malina

Malina

Author

Ingeborg Bachmann

Language

German

Year

1971

Country

Germany

Genre

Novel

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Malina is a 1971 novel by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. It tells the story of a female writer and her relationships with two different men, one joyous and one introverted. The text deals with themes including gender relations, guilt, mental illness, writing, and collective and personal trauma in the context of post-Second World War Vienna. The book was adapted into a 1991 film with the same title, directed by Werner Schroeter from a screenplay by Bachmann's compatriot Elfriede Jelinek. In 2026, it was adapted into an opera by librettist Tina Hartmann and composers Peter Gilbert and Karola Obermueller.