Britt-Mari eases her heart
Britt-Mari eases her heart (original title: Britt-Mari lättar sitt hjärta ) is the title of a girl's book by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren , which was published in 1944 by the Stockholm publisher Rabén & Sjögren .
content
The main character of the letter novel is the fifteen-year-old Britt-Mari Hagström, who lives with her parents and siblings Majken, Svante, Jerker and Monika in the fictional town of Småstad (German: "small town"). The father is the director of a boys' school, the mother a translator who spends the whole day at her typewriter. The eldest daughter Majken takes care of the family.
When Britt-Mari was given her mother's discarded typewriter as a present, she was seized with typing fever and began to write letters to the Stockholm girl Kajsa Hultin, in which she described her daily life, her thoughts and feelings. Britt-Mari's tone of voice in the letters is characterized by humor, self-irony and wit.
history
After Astrid Lindgren's first work Pippi Longstocking was rejected by the Stockholm publishing house Bonnier , among other things because it seemed too demanding as a children's book to one reviewer, her following manuscript, with the working title Britt Hagström, 15 years old, won the second prize for a girl's book endowed with 1200 Swedish crowns. Competition from the Rabén & Sjögren publishing house. Just a few months later, in November 1944, the book was published as Britt-Mari lättar sitt hjärta (German: Britt-Mari eases her heart ). It received positive reviews from Sweden's leading children's and youth book critics. Greta Bolin described the book in the Svenska Dagbladet as "enormously amusing, full of humor and lively irony, every now and then downright spiritual". Eva von Zweigbergk wrote in Dagens Nyheter : "The book has a sense of humor and a heart."
expenditure
- Britt-Mari lättar sitt hjärta . Rabén & Sjögren, Stockholm 1944.
- Britt-Mari eases her heart . Translated from the Swedish by Else von Hollander-Lossow . Oetinger, Hamburg 1954.
- Britt-Mari eases her heart . German by Anna-Liese Kornitzky. Oetinger, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7891-4134-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jens Andersen : Astrid Lindgren. Your life . DVA, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04703-8 , pp. 195–196.