Steen Steensen Blicher

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Steen Steensen Blicher

Steen Steensen Blicher (born October 11, 1782 in Vium , † March 26, 1848 in Spentrup ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and Danish writer.

Life

Blicher came from Jutland and was the son of a Protestant pastor. In 1796 he attended high school in Randers and passed the Abitur examination in 1799. While he was in high school, his mother developed a mental illness. This event shaped him deeply. In 1801 he was first tutor in Holgershåb on the island of Falster . From 1803 he studied in Copenhagen and passed his theological exam in 1809.

Gravestone in the cemetery in Spentrup

In 1810 he became a teacher at the Latin school in Randers, but gave up teaching in 1811. On June 11, 1810, he married; the marriage gave birth to 10 children but was unhappy. In addition, he struggled all his life with financial problems that were not resolved by the pastor's office in Thorning in Central Jutland, which he filled from 1819 to 1825. In 1825 he became pastor in Spentrup near Randers and remained so until his death in 1848. The economically precarious situation of a country pastor, who was constantly distracted from secondary work to support the growing family, may have contributed to the fact that Blicher was “never a good pastor become [is] rather one who tended to neglect his community spiritually to instead efforts should be made extricate her from the economic misery ". In an enlightened spirit, he tried to bring about progress in the cultivation of the soil in the poor north of Jutland, for example the promotion of flax cultivation and the reforestation of the heathland, and advocated the liberation of farmers in Denmark.

In the spirit of his time, Blicher was liberal and nationally oriented. Twice he intervened in Danish domestic politics from his village parish. In May 1813, the "literary Jewish feud" broke out in Denmark, a brief but fierce dispute over the question of legal equality for Jews living in Denmark. Along with Jens Immanuel Baggesen, Blicher was one of the two staunch defenders of the emancipation of the Jews. The dispute was ended in March 1814 by a royal edict that legally equated the Jews in Denmark with the non-Jewish Danes.

1839–44, Steen Blicher organized open-air meetings on the Himmelberg. The Himmelberg Festival, modeled on the German Hambach Festival of May 1832, was intended as a national celebration to bring the Danes together to strengthen and express their Danishism.

In 1845 Blicher suffered a nervous breakdown, he retired in 1847 and died on March 26, 1848 in Spentrup. He was buried in the Spentrup churchyard.

Works

Blicher began as a poet and translated the Ossian into Danish in 1807/1809 . He developed his special effect with his over 100 stories that are set in Jutland. Blicher has also published historical-topographical works about his homeland, which provide the background for the stories.

  • The Himmelberg , stories (The Himmelberg, The Robber's Room, The Stocking Merchant, Diary of a Village Coaster, The Pastor of Veilby, Late Awakening, The Sagittarius of Aunsbjerg, The Three Holy Evenings, Oh! How Changed !, Peer Spillemands Journey to Parnassus, Peer Spillemands Schiffsjournal, Keltringleben) translated from Danish by Inger and Walter Methlagl . Libelle Verlag, 2007.
  • Brudstykker af en Landsbydegns Dagbog , Novelle 1824 (German then in Tjele 1948), film adaptation: Denmark 1974 (director: K. Rifbjerg / J. Cornell); (German new edition: Fragments from the diary of a country lover , translated and edited by Walter Boehlich. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-921592-81-X )
  • Røverstuen , Novelle 1827 ( Eng . The Robbers' Den , 1849)
  • Præsten i Vejlbye , Eine Kriminalgeschichte 1829 (German: The pastor of Veilby, no year before 1833), film adaptation: Denmark 1920 (director: A. Blom); Denmark 1931 (directed by G. Schneevoigt); Denmark 1960 (Director: P. Kjærulff-Schmidt)
  • Telse . Fortælling fra Ditmarskerkersche, Novelle 1829 (German Telse, 1838)
  • De tre Helligaftener , Novelle 1840 (German. The three holy evenings. A Jutland robber story, 1849)
  • E Bindstouw, Fortællinger og Digte i jydske Mundarter , stories 1842

literature

Web links

Commons : Steen Steensen Blicher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Boehlich in the afterword to Blicher's fragments from the diary of a village coastal . Berlin 2007, p. 82
personal data
SURNAME Blicher, Steen Steensen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Lutheran pastor and Danish writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Vium
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1848
Place of death Spentrup