“The Radio Family” was a radio soap opera that was broadcast in the American sector of occupied Vienna in the 1950s. Presumably conceived as a contribution to the re-education of the population after the defeat of the Nazis, the programmes focused on the Florianis, an “ordinary” middle-class Viennese family, “eavesdropping” on them in their everyday life. Ingeborg Bachmann was at the beginning of her writing career when she became a member of the script team of three in 1951. The 15 scripts she contributed were thought lost until they turned up in the literary estate of one of the other writers in the 1990s. They provide a fascinating and often amusing picture of the way Austria saw itself – or, perhaps, wanted to see itself – in the early 1950s.

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German original title