Karl Friedrich Kurz

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Karl Friedrich Kurz

Karl Friedrich Kurz (born September 23, 1878 in Bremgarten (Hartheim am Rhein) , † June 26, 1962 in Norway ) was a German writer.

Life

As a child, his parents moved with him to Basel . He wanted to become a painter and enrolled at the academy in Karlsruhe .

But the circumstances made him a writer. He wandered around many parts of the world ( East Asia , Japan ) before settling in Norway . Here he wrote stories in German. In addition to the writer Knut Hamsun, he was influenced by nature and the life of the people in the fjords of Sogn and Sunnfjord .

His stories were successful and sold well. In 1934 he was awarded the Great Schiller Prize by the Swiss Schiller Foundation in Zurich. For his novel Tyra, the fairytale island he received the National Socialist reinterpreted and from the same year NSDAP awarded Wilhelm Raabe Prize .

He first lived in the Solund area , then near Vadheim in the Sognefjord , moved to Vårdal ( Dalsfjorden ) in Sunnfjord in 1924, where he lived until 1950 when he left his family and settled in Nessjøen ( Sotra ) in Hordaland . He lived there until his death.

His posthumous writings are largely lost.

Kurz is buried in the cemetery of Holmedal ( Dalsfjorden ), Sunnfjord.

Novels and short stories

  • From the Nile to the Fujijama (1910, his first work)
  • Kohana (Japanese idyll of love) , Huber; Frauenfeld and Leipzig (1910)
  • Midnight Sun and Northern Lights (1914)
  • Herren vom Fjord , Westermann (1947) (also translated into Norwegian by Heidi Helle and Rolf Losnegård: Herskap ved fjorden , ISBN 978-82-7959-033-0 )
  • In the Kingdom of Mjelvik , Westermann (1930)
  • Tyra, die Märcheninsel (1935) (for this novel he received the Wilhelm Raabe Prize of the city of Braunschweig in 1934 )
  • The Son of the Sea (1937)
  • The golden wave (1937)
  • A Blessed Liar (1938)
  • Dream and goal , Dt. Buch-Gemeinschaft (1940) (for this story he received the Grand Schiller Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation in 1934 )
  • Mr. Erling's maid , Westermann (1947)
  • The ghost carriage , Westermann (1953)

Other works

  • Interviews with residents of Vårdal, Sunnfjord and Nessjøen, Sotra v / Frode Inge Helland.

literature

  • Norvald Tveitt: Fra gull til grønne skoger . ( From gold to green forests ; see Erik Grant Lea ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the classification of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize and its award winners in National Socialist cultural policy, cf. Horst Denkler : The Wilhelm Raabe Prize - A German Story. Radio essay. In: Hubert Winkels (Ed.): Rainald Goetz meets Wilhelm Raabe: the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, its history and topicality. Wallstein Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3892444897 , pp. 20-46 (Kurz is mentioned as the winner of 1934 on p. 33 in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME In short, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremgarten (Hartheim am Rhein)
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1962
Place of death Norway