Astrid Väring

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Astrid Väring (born Astrid Glas on December 15, 1892 in Umeå ; died on March 22, 1978 in Bromma , Stockholm ) was a Swedish writer . She also worked as a journalist and translator .

Life

Astrid Glas came from families who had lived in the small town of Umeå for a long time. Her father Karl-Erik Glas was a mathematics teacher and at times a member of the city council. The mother Rosa Glas was born Scharin, daughter of the local businessman Nils August Scharin and a member of the Unander-Scharin family. Astrid's eldest sister Tyra became a private tutor and later remained Astrid's close correspondent. The middle sisters were mentally retarded; their existence was hidden as much as possible by the locally prominent family.

Astrid graduated from school in 1909 and achieved her best grades in language subjects. From the following year she studied in a teacher training college in Stockholm . In 1916 she began working as a journalist for the Västerbotten courier under the pseudonym Rita ; she wrote reviews and socially critical reports. In May 1919 she married Eugen Väring, a pastor and teacher, and moved with him to Vänersborg . She divorced him in 1938. Her experiences, which she made in southern Sweden as a farm worker in a peasant family, she processed in her first novel in 1924. In the same decade, her parents died and she inherited her grandfather's diary, which she also processed literarily.

Her literary breakthrough in the 1940s enabled her to be financially independent; In 1941 she received a literary prize endowed with 25,000 crowns. She got to know Martin Öhmann, with whom she developed a close relationship. She suffered from accusations that she or Öhmann were National Socialist agents and blamed intrigues around them. Öhmann was in psychiatric treatment several times. Based on his experiences, Väring campaigned for the mentally handicapped and wrote from the perspective of those affected. The controversial novel You, who you enter here, was made into a film in 1945 despite protests and sparked a broad social debate in which hospital staff and relatives of patients faced each other. She was accused of exaggerating; however, she published another account of the situation of unjustly treated, mentally ill prisoners. From 1947 to 1954 she was finally married to Öhmann for the second time.

Works

Her historical and contemporary novels were often socially critical and portrayed interpersonal relationships. These were the focus, but their poetic expression that glorified the past was also praised. The early novels deal with the development problems in northern Sweden and Lapland - Väring was one of the first to discover the region in literary terms. The work found a mainly female readership and was viewed critically in upscale circles. Her later works found fewer and fewer readers, her last novel was long rejected by publishers.

  • I rang med husets katt (1924)
  • Frosten: skildring från 1860-talets Västerbotten (1926, German: Harte Zeiten )
  • Vintermyren (1927, German: Das Wintermoor , 1929)
  • Marja: berättelse från fjället (1928, German: Marja: a story from the Swedish highlands , 1930)
  • Vådeld: noveller (1930, German: Schadenfeuer )
  • Manuel. Del 1, Mörkrets väldighet (1931, German: Manuel )
  • Skeppet Viktoria: noveller (1932, German: Das Schiff Viktoria )
  • Utanför: dikter (1933, German: Outside , volume of poems)
  • Manuel. Del 2, Det vita molnet (1934, German: Manuel )
  • Släkten: roman (1934, German: The sex )
  • Ett skepp kommer lastat: roman (1935, German: a ship is being loaded )
  • Känner du väl det land ?: roman (1936, German: Do you know the country )
  • Härmfågeln (1939, German: The Mocking Bird )
  • Langtan heter vår arvedel (1941, German: Sehnsucht is our inheritance )
  • Katinka (1942, German: Katinka )
  • I som här inträden (1944, German: you who enter here )
  • Du skall icke dräpa (1946, German: You shouldn't kill )
  • Föranleder ingen åtgärd (1947)
  • Trollkona: roman från fjället på 1830-talet (1956)

Translations from English

  • Ernest Raymond: Miraklet i Bredon ( The mirachle of Brean )
  • Ernest Raymond: Floden ( A song of the tide )
  • Harold Dearden: Vår osäkra värld ( Time and chance )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anders Johansson, handwriting 62. Författarinnan Astrid Värings arkiv (Umeå archive, Swedish)
  2. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 482.
personal data
SURNAME Väring, Astrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glas, Astrid (maiden name); Vaering, Astrid (variation); Rita (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Umeå
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1978
Place of death Bromma , Stockholm