Gustaf Fröding
Gustaf Fröding ( pronunciation : [ ˈɡɵsˌtav ˈfrøːˌdɪŋ ], * August 22, 1860 at Alster mansion near Karlstad ; † February 8, 1911 in Stockholm ) is the most important Swedish poet of the 1890s.
Life
Gustaf Fröding, born in 1860 at Herrenhof Alster in Värmland , came from a family of civil servants and entrepreneurs. His mother, Emilia Fröding (nee Agardh), was the daughter of the Bishop of Karlstad, Carl Adolph Agardh .
Fröding attended high school in Karlstad and began studies at Uppsala University in 1880 , which he did not graduate. During his student days, he came into radical liberal circles that shaped him politically. In 1887 he got a job with the radical newspaper Karlstads-Tidningen , which he left a year later when an inheritance enabled him to devote himself to his literary interests. A first mental illness took him to a mental hospital in Görlitz (Silesia) in 1889/90 , where he completed his first collection of poems Guitarr och dragharmonika (guitar and accordion), which was published in 1891. The collection of poems was an immediate success and within a few years had a circulation like no other before.
Gustaf Fröding was completely unaware of his success, as at the time of publication he was in a Norwegian nursing home receiving treatment for his severe alcoholism and nervous complaints. He then returned to Karlstads-Tidningen , where he wrote cultural articles and poetry. At the same time he was working on his second collection of poems, Nya dikter (new poems), which came out in 1894. This collection of poems, which, like the first one, is a mixture of humorous poems with Värmland motifs and more serious, this time socially critical poems, was even more successful.
This time, too, Gustaf Fröding was unable to enjoy the success, as one month before the publication he fell ill with severe psychosis from which he was only supposed to recover temporarily. Fröding temporarily spent the rest of his life in various neurological hospitals and nursing homes. Nevertheless, he continued to write, and in 1896 his third collection of poems, Stänk och flikar ( Spritzer und Zipfel), was the highlight of his lyrical work. But a poem in which an innocent sexual intercourse between two young people in a dreamed past golden age is portrayed, led to a lawsuit for immorality in which the sick Fröding was both the publisher and his friends, especially the poet friend Verner von Heidenstam , who took him had encouraged the publication of this poem. Although Fröding was acquitted, the events intensified his psychosis and drove him to attempt suicide.
Gustaf Fröding moved to Uppsala with his sister Cecilia in 1896 . In the following two years he published the poetry collections, Nytt och gammalt (new and old) and Grailstänk (grail splash). But his illness worsened so much that he was admitted to a nervous hospital in 1898, from which he was not released until 1905. He spent the last years of his life in Villa Gröndal in Stockholm , where he was looked after by a nurse. 1910, a year before his death, appeared Efterskörd (post-harvest) and 1913, the collection was posthumously Reconvalescentia laid. Both contain poems of very unequal quality.
Eponyms
In 2007 the asteroid (10122) Fröding was named after him.
Works
- 1891 Guitarr and dragharmonika
- 1894 Nya dicter
- 1895 Räggler å paschaser 1
- 1896 Stänk och flikar
- 1897 Räggler å paschaser 2
- 1897 Nytt och gammalt
- 1898 grail drink
- 1910 Efterskörd
- 1913 Reconvalescentia
Secondary literature
- Lutz Röhling: The defense of ennui: modernity and modernity in the lyric work of Gustav Fröding . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990.
Others
In 2012 the Swedish rock band Mando Diao released the album Infruset , in which all of the lyrics consist of Fröding's poems.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustaf Fröding in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography based on examples of poems in German.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plate tests online team: Mando Diao - Infruset - Plattentests.de review. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fröding, Gustaf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alster mansion |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1911 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |