Jørgen Sonne (Author)

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Jørgen Jacobsen Sonne (born October 15, 1925 in Copenhagen ; † September 9, 2015 ) was a Danish poet and author. He was best known as a translator of French poetry.

life and work

Jørgen Sonne taught history and English in high schools. He made his debut as a poet in 1950 with Korte digte (short poems) with poems of time and bitter love poems. In the poetry collection Italiensk suite , published in 1954 by Gyldendal , dark moods of crisis predominate, but there are also calm poems, for example about the altarpiece “Adoration of the Shepherds” in the Uffizi . In 1960 he took stock of his life in Midtvejs (Halfway) .

One of his best works is the collection of poems Krese (circles) peppered with refined irony . In the middle section are museum poems in which the sun takes rare objects as an opportunity to wander mentally into other times in order to deal with two topics in the past and present. In his works, in the tradition of surrealism and with idiosyncratic, fantastic realism in dissonant images, he describes violence and sacrifice, culture, eroticism, proximity and distance as well as primeval apocalyptic landscapes.

“Jørgen Sonne grinds his poems like crystals, unchallenged by fashion trends and current events. He can inject a nuance of Virgil or Villon with artistic finesse, and in general he requires his reader to experience it intensely. "

- Nordic literary history

In later years he increasingly published essays, reviews and short lyric prose.

Jørgen Sonne mainly translated French poets, for example Baudelaire , Lautréamont , Mallarmé , Nerval and Rimbaud . Jørgen Sonne lived in Glumsø .

Awards

Sonne received numerous awards, including the Emil Aarestrup Medal in 1976 and the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy , the Swedish-Danish Humanistic Prize in 1988 and the Danish Translation Prize in 1995; in 2000 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy.

Publications (selection)

Danish original editions

Poetry

  • 1950: Korte graduated
  • 1954: Italiensk suite
  • 1960: Midtvejs
  • 1963: Krese
  • 1976: Huset. Idyllic
  • 1980: Nærvær. Suite på rejsen

prose

  • 1973: Horisonter. Introductions and essays . (Essays)
  • 1979: Deruda. 25 år named Denmark . (Essays)
  • 1983: Natten i Rome . (Novel)
  • 1987: Mysteries Pills . (Drama)
  • 1994: Fra jul til jul. Mulige intruders. Halvtreds år i kongeriget . (Memoirs)
  • 2006: Emil Aarestrup - prosa and person . (Literary studies)

German-language editions

  • Poems. 1950-1992 . From the Danish by Hanns Grössel. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-88423-107-3
  • A selection of his poems appeared in: My face is a body. New posie from Denmark . Edition die horen , Bremerhaven 1989, ISBN 3-88314-914-4

literature

  • Mogens Brøndsted: Jørgen Sonne . In: Nordic literary history . Volume II. Fink, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7705-2105-6 .
  • Per Olsen, Søren Schou (ed.): Denne Sonne. Festkrift til Jørgen Sonne . Munksgaard / Rosinante, Copenhagen 1995, ISBN 87-16-14277-2 .
  • Orla Pedersen: Jørgen Sonne. In: Dansk digtere i det 20. århundrede . IV. 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Politiken (Danish). Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ Nordic literary history . Volume II. Munich 1984, page 595
personal data
SURNAME Sun, Jørgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sun, Jørgen Jacobsen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish poet, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2015