Johannes Anker Larsen

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Johannes Anker Larsen (born September 18, 1874 in Henninge , Langeland Island , † February 12, 1957 in Birkerod near Copenhagen ) was a Danish writer.

Life

Larsen was the son of a seaman and studied theology for a short time in 1894 , then law and philology in Copenhagen. In 1898 he left university. From 1905 to 1913 Larsen worked as a journalist and actor , later as a dramaturge , from 1928 at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. He has published several novels and short stories, including comedies, mostly in collaboration with Egil Nostrup . Especially he was known during his lifetime for his novel The Philosopher's Stone , by which he was honored as the winner in a Danish-Norwegian-Roman competitions, and through the little psychology of religion , semi- autobiographical book With the door open .

meaning

His works, which were mainly created in the period after the First World War , are strongly influenced by the thinking and works of Søren Kierkegaard , the Danish religious philosopher Vilhelm Grønbechs and the Danish philosopher Feilberg . Ultimately, however, he draws on the immortal wisdom of all the great Indian and Chinese teachings, the Bhagavad Gita , Daoism , but also the Gnostic - Christian teachings and the ideas of the Theosophists . Recurring in his works is the theme of the search for eternity, for the lost true religious feeling beyond the classical, established churches and their priesthood and the revival of the forgotten ability of mystical seeing and experiencing with the aim of enlightenment, or in the language of Bible : the realization of eternal life. He seeks to create the mystical experience of the unity of the visible and invisible, temporal and eternal world.

Works

Novels

  • Karen Kruse, 1912
  • Pentecost Sunday or Pastor Nemko's Visitation, 1912
  • The Bay, 1919
  • The Philosopher's Stone, 1923
  • Martha and Maria, 1925
  • Sanctification or the Church That Grows Up Heaven, 1928
  • Rausch, 1931
  • I want what I should or King Lear of Svendborg, 1932
  • Olsen's Folly, 1941
  • Hansen, 1949

Lectures and spiritual biography

  • From real life, lectures given in Amersfoort [1927, Berlin 1928 and Zurich 1925]
  • With the door open. An experience report in 1923

Novellas

  • A Dream (1904)
  • The Child (1905)
  • A Sucker (1905)
  • Imprisoned (1905)
  • A Strict Time (1905)
  • Birthday present (1905)
  • Kristian Københavner (1905)
  • Spiders (1905)
  • Niels Christmas Eve (1905)
  • My (1908)
  • Power (1908)
  • Magdalena vom Lande (1908)
  • The candidate (1908)
  • Eros (1918)
  • Human eye ([1918)
  • Cupid and Psyche (1918)
  • Anno Domini MXMVIV (1918)
  • Flowers from Paradise (1918)
  • Loyalty (1946)
  • The miracle (1946)
  • Madness (1946])
  • Fulfillment (1946)
  • The paper boat, a man and a woman

Plays

(partly in cooperation with Egill Rostrup)

  • The son of Zeus (1935)
  • The Prophet's Wife (1935)
  • Per Bunkes prehistory (1908)
  • Black Peter (1913)
  • Magdalena vom Lande (1912)
  • The Count's child
  • One thing
  • Niels Nielsen
  • Charles the Bold
  • Karen
  • Maren and Mette (1910)
  • Five Hundred Percent (1917)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Fankhauser: Johannes Anker Larsen. Bern Week, 1926, accessed on May 7, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Larsen, Johannes Anker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Henninge , Langeland Island
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1957
Place of death Birkerod near Copenhagen