Jon Fosse

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Jon Fosse (2007)

Jon Fosse (born September 29, 1959 in Haugesund , Norway ) is a Norwegian author. He grew up in Strandebarm in the municipality of Kvam in Hardanger and now lives with his family in a village on the Austrian-Slovakian border.

life and work

At first Jon Fosse mainly published volumes of poetry and novels, in recent years he has mainly devoted himself to acting. His plays are now performed all over the world, and translations are available in over 40 languages. In 2007 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the French Ordre national du Mérite . In 2007 the Daily Telegraph also ranked Fosse 83rd in the Top 100 living geniuses ranking .

In 2000 z. B. staged three of his plays on some of the most important German-speaking theaters in German translation: at the Salzburg Festival , at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and the Deutsches Theater Berlin , at the Hamburg Thalia Theater and at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . These are the pieces The Name , The Night Sings Its Songs and The Child . The Münchner Kammerspiele brought z. B. 2002 dream out in the fall . The libretto for the opera of the same name by Georg Friedrich Haas (London 2015 and Heidelberg 2017) was based on the novel Morgen und Abend .

The generation of writers that Jon Fosse belongs to introduced postmodernism to Norway in the 1980s . This style sees itself in a conscious contrast to the socio-critical current of the 70s. With Fosse, this is not reflected in a penchant for intertextuality , but rather in a penchant for the religious. His home region of Western Norway also appears frequently in his texts . His works, mainly written in Nynorsk , often appear gloomy, and his lyrics are partly based on Georg Trakl .

In his novels he clearly prefers the personal narrative style , in which there is no omniscient narrator and the events are only filtered through the eyes of the first-person narrator . This becomes very clear e.g. B. in the story Morgen und Abend ( Morgon og kveld , 2001, German 2003). Here a dying fisherman tells an old woman who cares for him the story of his life and, above all, the story of the love between him and his wife who died before him. Despite the gloomy theme, Fosse succeeds in letting something light shimmer through that is far removed from obtrusive conversion religiosity. In his novel Melancholie (Ger. 2001, Norw. Melancholia I , 1995, Melancholia II , 1996) Fosse describes the life of the mentally confused painter Lars Hertervig .

Like the novels, his dramas focus on encounters between people, which can bring the respective protagonists to a new understanding of one another.

After leaving the Lutheran state church, Fosse first became a Quaker and converted to Catholicism in 2013 . He lives in the Lower Austrian municipality of Hainburg an der Donau .

Works

Dramas

  • And we will never part ( Og aldri Skal vi skiljast , 1994)
  • The Name ( Namnet , 1995) - National Ibsen Prize (1996), Nestroy Prize (2000)
  • There is someone else to come ( Nokon kjem til å komm , 1996)
  • The Child ( Barnet , 1996)
  • Mother and Child ( Mor og barn , 1997)
  • The Son ( Sonen , 1997)
  • The night sings its songs ( Natta syng sine songar , 1997)
  • Summer day ( Ein sommars dag , 1999)
  • The Guitar Man ( Gitarmannen , 1999)
  • Dream in autumn ( Draum om hausten , 1999)
  • Visit ( Besøk , 2000)
  • Winter ( Vinter , 2000)
  • Beautiful ( Vakkert , 2001)
  • Death Variations ( Dødsvariasjonar , 2001)
  • Lila / Purple ( Lilla , 2003)
  • Sleep ( Svevn , 2005)
  • Rambuku (2006)
  • Shadow ( Skuggar , 2006)
  • I am the wind ( Eg er vinden , 2007)
  • Death in Thebes, WP: 2010 as part of the Salzburg Festival . It is a summary of three Sophocles dramas. Directed by Angela Richter . Venue: Republic

Novels

  • Red, black ( Raudt, svart , 1983)
  • Melancholia ( Melancholia I & II , 1995/96) - Melsom Prize
  • Morning and Evening ( Morgon og kveld , 2000)
  • This is Alise ( Det er Ales , 2003)
  • Trilogy. Sleepless, Olav's dreams, drowsiness in the evening. Translated from the Norwegian by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2016. ( Trilogies , 2014)
  • The other name. Heptalogy I – II. Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019. ( Det andre namnet. Septologies I – II , 2019)

narrative

  • Sleepless ( Andvake 2008)

libretto

  • Melancholia based on his novel Melancholie , set to music by Georg Friedrich Haas , (premiered in Palais Garnier, Paris, on June 9, 2008)

Poetry

  • This inexplicable silence (Denne unforklarlege stille), with etchings by Olav Christopher Jenssen and translated by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel , Verlag Kleinheinrich, Münster 2016

Children's book

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ One of many in Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 21, 2013, p. 53
  2. ^ Jon Fosse's “And we shall never part” ( English ). Retrieved April 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ Alfred Fidjestøl: Åtvarer mot kjendiseriet (Norwegian) . In: Klassekampen , October 24, 2007. Archived from the original on December 29, 2008 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 6, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klassekampen.no 
  4. ↑ Top 100 living geniuses ( English ) Retrieved April 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 21, 2013, p. 53

See also

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Fosse, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian author
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Haugesund