Karl Larsen (writer)

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Karl Larsen before 1902

Karl Halfdan Eduard Larsen (born July 28, 1860 in Rendsburg , † July 11, 1931 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish writer who described the Copenhagen proletariat and petty bourgeoisie as well as wrote dramas , novels , travel books and essays .

Life stations

Larsen was orphaned at an early age as the son of a Danish officer who fell at Düppel and raised by his grandparents in Copenhagen. He initially pursued sociological studies, but gradually immersed himself in literary interests, which were promoted through long trips. In 1889 he went public with two stage plays.

Literary appreciation

Its production is rich, interesting and varied. Above all, it is important for him to portray people in their originality or how they find them distorted as cultural waste. In women, he is fascinated by the instinctive and indomitable. In some study collections he depicts the Danish folk character humorously and aptly through various Copenhagen vagabond types . The embryonic element, the immediate in the mental life and in the expression of the common man has prompted him to do literary and cultural-historical works, for which he was awarded the title of professor. In addition, he created travel pictures from Germany, Russia and Spain. In his later works he became increasingly concerned with the relationship between Denmark and Germany.

Publications (incomplete)

  • Women . 1889.
  • Honor . 1889.
  • The colorful book . 1891.
  • Cirkel . Gyldendal , Copenhagen 1893.
  • Translation from French: Soror Mariana Alcoforado ; Sister Marianna and her love letters . 1894, German: Insel, Leipzig 1905.
  • Dansk Soldatersprog til Lands and Vands . Schubothe, Copenhagen 1895.
  • Outside the ranks . Copenhagen 1896.
  • Kresjan Westerbro . 1897.
  • Danish men . Bojesen, Copenhagen 1898.
  • Poetic Germany , 1898, German 1904.
  • Courage and the bare sword , 1898.
  • Doctor Ix . German edition by Ernst Brausewetter . Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin 1898.
  • Sixteen years . Bojesen, Copenhagen 1900, German: Langen, Munich 1903.
  • Vort Folk i 64 ; Et Foredrag holdt i Christiania 1900. North. Forlag, København 1900.
  • Philistine , German 1902.
  • Dragoons Niels Kjeldsen and his murderers . E. Bojesen, Copenhagen 1902, German 1903.
  • But what do you see the splinter , German translation by Mathilde Mann . A. Juncker, Berlin 1903.
  • In great, holy Russia , German translation, 1904.
  • War and people: psychological images from a modern war . Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1905.
  • Poetic journeys: first journey in Germany and in great holy Russia . Insel, Leipzig 1906.
  • Daniel Daniela: From the diary of a cross-bearer . Concordia Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Hermann Ehbock Berlin 1908. (Published anonymously, Danish edition from 1922 under his name.)
  • A modern people at war: in excerpts from Danish letters and diaries from 1863/64 , German edition. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel [a. a.] 1907.
  • What is Denmark for the German, what should it be for him? Verkehrsbureau Norden, Berlin around 1910.
  • The whole point . Gyldendal, Copenhagen / Kristiania 1911.
  • Japan in the fight , German translation by Arnold Kalisch . Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1911.
  • Who went abroad . Reiss, Berlin 1913.
  • Professor Bédier and the diaries of German soldiers . Reimer, Berlin 1915.
  • Germany's national militarism and other things . Reiss, Berlin 1915.
  • Work service - impressions from the war in Germany and Austria . Reiss, Berlin 1916.
  • From the inner German front , Berlin: Reiss, 1917.
  • Aesthetist, patriot, polemicist , Copenhagen: Aschehoug, 1917
  • A Dane and Germany . Paetel, Berlin 1921.
  • The eagle flight over the Rhine and the equator . Reimar Hobbing , Berlin 1924.
  • What does France want? R. Hobbing, Berlin 1925.
  • HC Andersen's life without poetry: illustrated in terms of cultural history , German translation by Else von Hollander-Lossow. de Gruyter, Berlin [a. a.] 1926.

literature

  • Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, pp. 202–203

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Larsen, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larsen, Karl Halfdan Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1931
Place of death Copenhagen