Ilse Aichinger's legacy in the German Literary Archive in Marbach has yielded around a hundred unpublished poems and sketches for poems along with many preliminary drafts. The study places them in relation to the published poems. Examinations of Aichinger's prose poems, characteristic stylistic features and lines of development, her work in text, and her publishing policy reveal the poetical principles that shaped this poet's lyrical works.

Hannah Markus, Centre for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin, Germany.