Editing Ingeborg Bachmann (section)

==Later life and death==
During her later years she suffered from alcoholism and from an addiction to medication ([[barbiturate]]s and [[benzodiazepine]]) prescribed by her doctor.<ref>Ina Hartwig: ''Wer war Ingeborg Bachmann?'', S. Fischer 2017. p. 223.</ref> A friend described it:<blockquote>"I was deeply shocked by the magnitude of her tablet addiction. It must have been 100 per day, the bin was full of empty boxes. She looked bad, she was waxlike and pale. And her whole body was covered in bruises. I wondered what could have caused them. Then, when I saw how she slipped her [[Gauloises|Gauloise]] that she smoked and let it burn off on her arm, I realized: burns caused by falling cigarettes. The numerous tablets had made her body insensible to pain."<ref>Peter Beicken: ''Ingeborg Bachmann'', Becksche Reihe 605, Second Edition. Munich 1992, p. 213.</ref></blockquote> 
On the night of 25 September 1973, her nightgown caught fire and she was taken to the [[Sant'Eugenio Hospital]] at 7:05 A.M. the following morning for treatment of second and third degree burns.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Kretschmer |first1=Heike |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGvNCpl2oV0C|title=Über Ingeborg Bachmann 2: Band 2: Porträts, Aufsätze, Besprechungen 1952–1992 |trans-title=I. B.: Portraits, Essays, Conversations |last2=Schardt |first2=Michael Matthias |date=2011 |publisher=Igel Verlag |isbn=978-3-86815-537-2|language=de}}</ref> Local police concluded that the fire was caused by a cigarette. During her stay, she experienced withdrawal symptoms from [[barbiturate]] [[substance abuse]], though the doctors treating her were not aware of the cause. This may have contributed to her subsequent death on 17 October 1973.<ref>{{Cite book| last=Lennox| first=Sara| date=2006| chapter=Part One: Bachmann and History, Chapter 1. Bachmann in History: An Overview| chapter-url= https://scholarworks.umass.edu/umpress_cotmd/3/| title=Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann| publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|language=en|isbn=978-1-55849-552-4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=West|first=Adrian Nathan|title=Society Is the Biggest Murder Scene of All: On Bachmann's "Malina"|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/society-is-the-biggest-murder-scene-of-all-adrian-nathan-west-on-ingeborg-bachmanns-malina/|access-date=15 September 2020|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=30 October 2019}}</ref>