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The Radio Family by Ingeborg Bachmann

konigsburg's review against another edition

2.0

A series of radio program scripts written in the early 50s in Vienna for an American-funded propaganda effort to subtly shape post-war Austria. The scripts were discovered in the 1990s and are by the same author who later wrote much darker stuff. There is humor here, mixed with a light-touch middle class morality - ‘currency speculation is bad; be open to modern art, take an interest in culture, those who supported the Nazis in the war can be rehabilitated...’ - but it doesn’t add up to much more than a misty window into idealized family life in the 1950s.