Finland Swedish modernism
The Finland Swedish modernism was an epoch Finland-Swedish literature , the first modernist literature within Scandinavia is applicable, the title of one essay by Hagar Olsson as Ny generation called.
Edith Södergran , who had attended a German school in Saint Petersburg , brought the modern literary currents that were already widespread in Central Europe to Finland and is therefore considered the founder of Finnish-Swedish modernism. The publication of her first volume of poems, Dikter (Gedichte), in 1916 is considered to be the beginning of Finnish-Swedish modernism. For a long time, however, modernist literature did not experience much reception. It was not until the 1940s , when similar trends emerged in the other northern European countries, that Finnish-Swedish modernism came beyond the status of an underground movement.
Besides Södergran and Olsson, important representatives were Gunnar Björling with his Dadaist-minimalist poetry, Rabbe Enckell , who was active until the 1970s, Henry Parland with his thing poems, Sally Salminen and the expressionist and later pantheist Elmer Diktonius . The latter was also co-editor of the two major literary journals of Finnish-Swedish modernism, Ultra and Quosego .
anthology
- Finland-Swedish avant-garde literature. Edith Södergran, Henry Parland, Elmer Diktonius, Gunnar Björling, Rabbe Enckell. 5 volumes in cassette, 2014. ISBN 978-3-930754-90-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lutz Rühling: sacrifices of reason for the construction of metaphysical meaning in texts of the Scandinavian literatures from the baroque to the postmodern Palaestra (Göttingen): for the construction of metaphysical meaning in texts of the Scandinavian lituratures from the baroque to the postmodern , ISBN 9783525205891
- ↑ Horst Bien and others: Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literatures , Leipzig 1978