Cecilie Lund

Cecilie Ane Andrea Lund (born Lynge ; born November 28, 1917 in Nuuk ; † September 9, 1999 in Qaqortoq ) was a Greenlandic writer , poet , musician , translator , teacher , Højskoleleiterin and women's rights activist .

Life

Cecilie Lund was the youngest daughter and the eighth children of the pastor, poet, painter and regional councilor Niels Lynge (1880-1965) and his wife Ane Theodora Cecilie Rosing (1883-1940). Her brothers include the Provincial Councilor Klaus Lynge (1902–1981) and the writer Hans Lynge (1906–1988). On September 24, 1939, she married the sheep farmer Henning Lund (1917–1998), son of the fisheries manager Louis Lund and his wife Marie Katrine Elisabeth Julia Johannesen. The marriage resulted in four sons and two daughters: Louis (* 1941), Naja (* 1943), Kristian (* 1945), Katrine (* 1949), Niels (* 1951) and Kunuk (* 1956).

Cecilie Lund was born in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, but grew up in Maniitsoq and later in Alluitsoq , where her father was a pastor. She attended Efterskole in Qaqortoq , which was unusual for girls at the time, and graduated in 1934. Because of her gender, she was denied further training at Grønland's seminarium , as she wished. Instead, she attended the catechist school in Aasiaat , which, however, only gave women the title of toddler teacher after graduation. She started to work in Alluitsoq, where she met her future husband and then gave up work because of her children and was a housewife. Only when her husband was sick did she replace him. In 1946 the couple and three children founded the Qanisartuut shepherd's settlement . Because there was no school nearby, Cecilie taught her children herself. Later she began to write poems and novels, to compose music and to write articles in newspapers. Their stories and poems were published in the newspaper or read on the radio. She also translated from Danish into Greenlandic. In 1965 she won a writing competition with her story Pitdlagkatut asime inûneĸ . She deals with the life of a young criminal and is inspired by her own life as she and her husband rehabilitated criminals on her farm in the 1950s and 1960s. Cecilie Lund was also active as a women's rights activist. In the mid-1960s she became chairwoman of the South Greenlandic department of the women's association Arnat Peqatigiit Kattuffiat (APK). In 1977 she became head of the newly founded Arnat Ilinniarfiat in Sisimiut , which Kathrine Chemnitz and Guldborg Chemnitz had fought for years to establish. She only held this office for two years. In 1989 she gave up her job entirely and settled in Qaqortoq, where she died in 1999 at the age of 81.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cecilie Lund in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon