Annik Saxegaard

author
Surname	Anna Constance Saxegaard Annik Saxegaard
gender	Female
Born	May 21, 1905 Stavanger Norway
Died	August 16, 1990 Kiel Germany
pseudonym	Ulla Scherenhof Nina Nord Cara Mell Eddie Eng
job	Writer author of young books
Author of	158 publications
Involved in	7 publications

Annik Saxegaard (born May 21, 1905 in Stavanger , Norway , † August 16, 1990 in Kiel ), known under the pseudonyms Berte Bratt , Nina Nord or Ulla Scherenhof , was a writer . The pseudonym “Scherenhof” is a translation of the name “Saxegaard” (norw. Sax = scissors, gaard = court).

Life

Annik Saxegaard's mother studied music, her father was an engineer, a profession that some of her later male characters in fiction would also take up. The family also had an older sister, but Saxegaard had no contact with her in later years.

The family later moved to Oslo , where Saxegaard graduated from high school in 1925. At first she tried her hand as an actress, but was already earning money writing at that time, and she also worked on the radio. From 1937 to 1946 she was married to the railway worker Christian Mohn.

When her parents divorced, Saxegaard moved with her mother to mountains . Here she ran a radio show, gave lectures, wrote advertising texts and eventually began writing animal stories for toddlers. After this became a success, she first published a novel. Then she began to write girls' books, which made her very popular, especially in Germany. Under the pseudonym Berte Bratt , she became one of the most widely read authors of books for girls in Germany, with a total circulation of over 5 million copies. Some of her novels were initially published as Lore novels under the pseudonym Nina Nord , and she also used the pseudonym Ulla Scherenhof (Gina series).

In 1958 she moved to Germany. From then on she wrote her books almost exclusively in German. She lived in Kiel with a German friend and lived there until her death on August 16, 1990.

Berte Bratt, whose first book was published by Franz Schneider Verlag in 1937 , made a name for herself on the radio as the director of fairy tales and entertainment programs shortly after graduating from high school. A little later, her first book hit appeared: "My daughter Lisbeth" - a girl's book. Since then, as she herself said, she had written incessantly. About eighty books - mostly girls' books - were published by the time she died. Fifty of these titles were published in German, initially as translations, and later she wrote in German herself. The titles that have appeared as "tailor's books" are particularly well known.

Works (selection)

• My daughter Lisbeth , 1950 (Norwegian: Min datter Lisbet)
• A girl of 17 years , 1952 (Norwegian: Lisbet! Lisbet!)
• Two happy summers , 1954 (Norwegian: En time med rutebil)
• Life becomes more beautiful, Anne , 1954 (Norwegian: Trass i old)
• Daring - won , 1954 (Norwegian: Amor går på fire)
• Anne and Jess , 1955 (Norwegian: Slik Skal det være, Anne!)
• Anne, the best companion in life , 1955 (Norwegian: Alle smiler til Anne), illustrations: Gerda Radtke, Franz Schneider Verlag, Munich
• Stay with us, Beate , 1958 (Norwegian: Pålitelig ung dame får post)
• Nina, I like you this way! , 1959 (Norwegian: Bli som du er, Nina)
• Have courage, Katrin! , 1962 (Norwegian: Umulige Cecilie)
• Moni dreams of great happiness , 1967
• Dear Inge! , 1968
• Big little sister Gina , Engelbert-Verlag, Balve, 1968
• Great Gina , Engelbert-Verlag, Balve, 1969
• Nicole: A heart full of love , 1969
• My dreams move south , 1969
• Gina dares , Engelbert-Verlag, Balve, 1970
• Detours to happiness , 1971
• The ladder of happiness has many rungs , 1971
• Sonja's third great moment , 1973
• Just a year, Jessica! , 1973
• Guests at Gina , Engelbert-Verlag, Balve, 1974
• I count the days on the calendar , 1975
• Well done, Gina , Engelbert-Verlag, Balve, 1976
• Are you participating, Senta? , 1977
• Sunny days with Katrin , 1978
• Little dog and big love , 1980
• Everything turned out differently in 1981

As Annik Saxegaard

• Two rooms and kitchen
• The goal is happiness
• Inge's dreams come true
• Mommy's men
• My mistress and me
• Our Foxel Burre Bums
• The three of us from the Nordhof
• Our kitten's pussy
• Mohrli, snow white and bingo

As Berte Bratt

• But then summer came
• Everyone calls me a pony (Norwegian: Slik er Ponny)
• Everything turned out differently
• Anne the best companion in life
• Anne and Jess The way to happiness
• Stay with us, Beate! (Norwegian: Pålitlig ung Dame får post)
• The heart in the right place (Norwegian: Kjære stabukken min!)
• The little souvenir (Norwegian: Store Ingrid og lille Ingrid)
• Life is getting better, Anne!
• Think of our love (also under the title: My wife - the soul doctor & I believe in you and your love)
• The best day of my life
• The ladder of happiness has many rungs
• A girl of 17 years
• A good girl
• Dared, won!
• Have courage, Katrin
• I count the days on the calendar
• Little dog and big love
• Cruise with obstacles (also under the title: A man for Mette)
• Dear Inge!
• Are you participating, Senta?
• Marion's happy decision (Norwegian: Hvad Skal vi gjøre med Marion?)
• My big brother
• My daughter Liz
• My dreams are moving south
• Moni dreams of great happiness
• New luck for Gisela (also under the title: Elisabeth goes her way)
• Nicole - a heart full of love
• Nina, I like you that way! (Norwegian: Bli som du er, Nina)
• Just a year, Jessica!
• Regina can do it! (also under the title: Be wise Regina) (Norwegian: Bare en liten løgn)
• Sonja's third great moment
• Sunny days with Katrin
• Sylvi makes her luck (also under the title: An unusual job)
• Detours to luck
• Our Claudia, a girl of our time
• We can do it together
• Two letters for Britta (Norwegian: Hele verden er min)
• Two happy summers
• Two rooms and a kitchen (published under her real name Annik Saxegaard)

Anthologies

• Daring, won + sister Lise,
• My daughter Liz + a girl of 17 years,
• Sylvi makes her luck + a good girl,
• Detours to happiness + Just one year Jessica,
• The goal is Glück + Inge betw. Sport u. Love,
• Anne (Life gets better, Anne; Anne and Jess; Anne, the best companion in life)
• The goal is happiness + two rooms and a kitchen
• Beate (stay here, Beate; have courage, Katrin; my dreams are moving south; the ladder of happiness has many rungs)

As Ulla Scherenhof

• Big, little sister Gina
• Great Gina
• Gina dares
• Guests at Gina's
• Well done, Gina
• Billy the rascal
• We stick together

As Nina Nord

• Charming Vivi (Lore-Roman 626),
• A shooting star fell from the sky (Lore novel 658),
• Shot run into happiness (Lore-Roman 705),
• Think of our love (Lore novel 745),
• Two happy summers (Lore-Roman 789),
• The room with the mother-in-law (Lore-Roman 832)

literature

• Malte Dahrendorf: Berte Bratt . In Klaus Doderer (ed.): Lexicon of children's and youth literature , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel, Volume 1, 1984.

Web links

• Literature by and about Annik Saxegaard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Annik Saxegaard  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna Constance Saxegaard on the German National Library ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Annik Saxegaard in the Norsk biografisk leksikon
3. ↑ Annik Saxegaard book on book-info.com
4. ↑ Berte Bratt books on book-info.com