Hans A. Hansen

Hans Albert Noah Lârsêraĸ Hansen (born November 22, 1925 in Qeqertarsuatsiaat ; † December 27, 1997 ) was a Greenlandic journalist and writer .

Life

Hans A. Hansen was the son of the hunter and regional councilor Nikolaj Hansen (1892–1935) and his wife Ane Maria Benigne Lynge (1896–?), Who originally came from North Greenland . On December 28, 1952, he married Charlotte Augusta Malene Johnsen (* 1932), daughter of the cooper Hans Ole Johnsen (1898–?) And his wife Sofie Charlotte Benigne Lynge (1897–?), A half-sister of the first wife of Jonathan Petersen (1881 -1963).

Hans A. Hansen spent his first years in his native Qeqertarsuatsiaat. When his father died, the family moved to Nuuk , where his brother worked at KGH . He was supposed to be trained as a teacher there, but to support his family he was forced to work as an office assistant. In his spare time he was busy with the old radio station in Nuuk and in 1948 he started working there as a freelancer . In 1956 he was given a permanent job and was supposed to complete an apprenticeship as a studio technician, but his interest in radio broadcasts was so great that after only a month he was trained as a radio program editor. The training took place in Denmark and he was taught by Sam Besekow , among others . In 1958, together with the Dane Mogens Kilde from Danmarks Radio, he became the first radio journalist at the newly founded KNR . He was solely responsible for the Greenlandic program and did not get a colleague until 1961. Using primitive recording technology, he traveled the country creating radio broadcasts. In the 1970s he received further training in television journalism in Denmark and Sweden, as televisions were also spreading in Greenland at that time. In 1980 he finally started working in television and became director of Nuuk-TV. In 1986 he took early retirement to devote himself to writing. In 1988 he became head of radio before he finally retired in 1991.

He was the initiator of Greenland's first film and television production company, Nanok Film . He was also active as a composer, drama and radio play writer and film producer. His film productions include Suna tamarmi killiffissalik and Takorluukkat sisamat, as well as some government-ordered cartoons for anti-alcoholism campaigns. He also translated literature into Greenlandic. Hans A. Hansen also worked as a writer under the pseudonym Albert Nuka . In 1989 he wrote his debut novel Pillagaq Akuamiu (The Punished Man from Akua). It became the first part of a trilogy . In 1993 the sequel Angerlartoq (The Homecoming) appeared and in 1995 he brought out the third part, Pujoq kivivoq (The Fog Lays Down ). In the same year, his Danish collection of short stories, Stavnsbundne får vinger - og andre fortællinger (Local people get wings - and other stories) appeared. In 1992 he received the Greenland Culture Prize and in 1997 he was made a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog . Hans A. Hansen died of a stroke in late 1997 at the age of 72.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans A. Hansen at litteraturpriser.dk
2. ^ Family Lynge von Bendt Lynge (1901–1987) (.pdf)
3. ↑ Radiopionér, TV-mand og forfatter in the Atuagagdliutit of June 22, 1992
4. ↑ Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 25th f .
5. ↑ Fortjenestfuld KNR-pioner in the Atuagagdliutit of January 26, 1998