Sandra Richter

In the organizer's words:

• Rainer Maria Rilke or The Open Life
• A biography
• Literature

Being open and writing was all Rilke wanted: a modest and at the same time ambitious wish. As an author, he experienced "the whole of life [...] as if it went right through him with all its possibilities". But also with all its contradictions: Rilke fled from his muses and could not be without them, lamented the consequences of man-made progress and was enthusiastic about technology, he loved the simple life and had a pronounced fondness for beautiful things and residences. With The Notes of Malte Laurids Brigge, he created one of the first modern novels and epoch-making cycles of poetry whose expressive power still resonates today.
In her biography, Sandra Richter works with new sources that came to the Marbach Literature Archive in 2022 with the purchase of the large Rilke archive. Rilke appears in a new light: robust, assertive, a

lert in company, cheerful and self-deprecating and more knowledgeable about financial matters than is generally assumed.

Sandra Richter is Professor of Modern German Literature in Stuttgart and has been Director of the German Literature Archive Marbach since 2019, which is planning an exhibition and events on Rilke and his work in 2025/26.

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