Bo Bergman

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Bo Bergman

Bo Hjalmar Bergman (born October 6, 1869 in Stockholm , † November 17, 1967 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish writer , theater and literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy from 1925 until his death.

Life

Bergman studied in Uppsala and passed his exam there in 1889. He spent his entire working life as a postal worker in Stockholm until his retirement in 1933. He began writing poetry while working for the Swedish postal service. His first poem anthologie Marionetterna was published in 1903. In addition to his work at the Post, Bergman also worked as a literary critic for the Swedish cultural magazine Ord och Bild from 1900 to 1904 . He also worked for the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter and as a theater critic from 1905 to 1939. Bergman is buried on the Norra begravningsplatsen in Solna, Sweden .

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Bergman was a close friend of the Swedish novelist Hjalmar Söderberg, with whom he maintained extensive correspondence from 1891 until Söderberg's death in 1941. Like Söderberg's, Bergman's works were also heavily influenced by decadence poetry , especially Charles Baudelaire's flaneur literature . Bergman's early poems are typically decadent and disaffected. They include a deterministic view of a changing world in which all value systems and all scientific and metaphysical processes that contribute to understanding the universe are meaningless. Bergman's poems reflect natural lyric moods, united with a love motif as central lyric reflections. Marionettena ( The Puppets ) assumes that the fate of humanity rests in the hands of a bearded old man who controls their every move.

Like Söderberg's, Bergman's worldview also paved the way for militant humanism. This is particularly evident in his later works in response to the growing threat posed by Nazism . This time criticism is u. a. visible in the collection of poems Das Reich . In the years after 1950 he continued his writing activity with a unique vitality. The central motif is treated with the same mastery of form and melody as in previous years.

Bergman also wrote short stories and novels, as well as an autobiography and a drama. His works inspired some great Swedish composers such as Wilhelm Stenhammar , Ture Rangström and Karin Rehnqvist .

Anthologies

  • 1903 - Marionetterna ( The Marionettes )
  • 1908 - Enomanniska ( A Man )
  • 1917 - Elden ( The Fire )
  • 1922 - Livets ögon ( The eyes of life )
  • 1939 - Gamla gudar ( Old Gods )
  • 1944 - Riket ( The Reich )
  • 1952 - Stunder ( moments )
  • 1969 - Äventyret ( The Adventure )

Novellas

  • 1904 - Drömmen och andra noveller ( The dream and other stories )
  • 1915 - Skeppet ( The Ship )

drama

  • 1963 - Det eviga spelet ( The Eternal Game )

Autobiographies

  • 1964 - Trasmattan ( The Patchwork Quilt )
  • 1968 - Noaks Ark ( Noah's Ark )

Letters

  • 1969 - Kära Hjalle - Kära Bo (Brevväxling med Hjalmar Söderberg) ( Dear Hjalle, Dear Bo.Correspondence with Hjalmar Söderberg )

literature

  • Bo Bergman, Poems , Bergland Verlag (1964)
  • Sten von Friesen, Jan-Öjvind Swahn, Bra böckers lexikon , Bra Böcker AB

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography of Bo Bergman on Nationalencyklopedin (www.ne.se)
  2. ↑ Short biography on danne.orfi.se
  3. ↑ a b Sten von Friesen, Jan-Öjvind Swahn, Bra böckers lexikon
personal data
SURNAME Bergman, Bo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergman, Bo Hjalmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1967
Place of death Stockholm