Henry Parland

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Henry Parland

Henry George William Parland (born July 29, 1908 in Vyborg , Grand Duchy of Finland , † November 10, 1930 in Kaunas , Lithuania ) was a Finnish-Swedish poet and writer .

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Henry Parland was the eldest son of the engineer Oswald Parland and his wife Ida (nee) Sesemann . The British ancestor Parlands moved to St. Petersburg to work for Tsarina Katarina . His mother came from a Baltic German family known in Vyborg . To avoid the turmoil of the Russian Revolution , the family, which spoke Russian and German , moved to Finland in 1912 . He only learned Swedish by attending school in Grankulla . After graduating from high school, Henry Parland studied law at the University of Helsinki from 1927 . The literary magazine Quosego published his first poems in 1928. In 1929 his only volume of poetry published during his lifetime was published. From May 1929 he worked at the Swedish consulate in Kaunas, where his uncle lived. There he died of scarlet fever at the age of 22 .

Most of his poems, short stories and essays, as well as a fragment of a novel, were only published posthumously by friends and his brother, the writer and psychiatrist Oscar Parland .

Works

  • Ideal realization (poems), 1929

Posthumously

  • Återsken , 1932
  • Hamlet sade det vackrare , 1964
  • The stora Dagenefter , 1966
  • Säginteannat , 1970
  • Sönder (om framkallning av Veloxpapper) , Helsinki, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 2005, 2014, 2019
  • Dikter , Helsinki, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 2018
  • Prose , Helsinki, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 2019

In German translation

  • eg writing like right now. Poems in Swedish and German. Translation and afterword by Wolfgang Butt, Otava, Helsinki / Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1984 ( Trajekt Collection , 17), ISBN 3-608-95293-4 .
  • Gisbert Jänicke (ed. And transl.): The land that is not. A Swedish anthology from Finland. VEB Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1986, ISBN 3-356-00044-6 , pp. 192-218 (poems and short stories by Henry Parland ).
  • Broken. (About developing Velox paper) . Novel, translated and provided with an afterword (pp. 147–159) by Renate Bleibtreu . Friedenauer Presse , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-932109-52-2 .
  • Erhållit Europe - vilket härmed Krankännes / Once Europe - received with thanks. Bilingual selection, transferred and ed. by Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke . Münster 2014.

literature

  • KJL ( Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke ): Henry Parland. In: Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon , Volume 12, Munich 1991, Volume 12, ISBN 3-463-43012-6 , pp. 967-969.
  • Per Stam: Krapula: Henry Parland och romanprojektet Sönder (Skrifter, 612. With summary "Krapula. Henry Parland and the novel project Broken ", pp. 359-370). SLK, Helsinki 1998, ISBN 951-583-042-7 ; also as: Litteraturvetenskapliga Institutions vid Uppsala Universitet, Skrifter 35, ISBN 91-88300-40-4 .
  • Parland, Henry. In: Contemporary Authors , Thomson Dale, Detroit 2006, pp. 301-302.
  • Richard Kämmerlings: The Trembling of Time. "Broken (via developing Velox paper)". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 225, September 27, 2007, p. 33.
  • Uwe Stolzmann: When Ami comes. The Swede - Henry Parland created a small masterpiece in prose in 1929. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 8, 2007.
  • Lothar Müller: Hot spirits, well chilled. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 20, 2007.
  • Nicole Henneberg: love on paper. In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 12, 2007, p. 22 ( online ).
  • Henry Parland: Pavasaris Kaune. Eilėraščiai. Straipsniai. Laiškai (Spring in Kaunas. Poems. Articles. Letters.) Translator and compiler: Petras Palilionis. Varpas, Kaunas (Lithuania) 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notation varies
  2. ↑ Book review, English
  3. ↑ Ideal realization
  4. ↑ Återsken
  5. ↑ Sönder (om framkallning av Veloxpapper). Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
  6. ^ Dicters
  7. ↑ Prose. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Parland, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parland, Henry George William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finland-Swedish poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyborg , Grand Duchy of Finland
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1930
Place of death Kaunas , Lithuania