Kerstin Ekman

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Kerstin Lillemor Ekman ( pronunciation : [ ˌɕæʂːtin ˈeːkman ], born August 27, 1933 in Risinge , Östergötland County ) is one of Sweden's most respected writers .

Life

Kerstin Ekman studied Scandinavian languages, German, pedagogy and, as a major, literary history at Uppsala University . In 1957 she received her Mag. Phil . Afterwards she worked for a few years as a teacher at a community college and in the dramaturgy of a Swedish film company. She occasionally directed herself, but mainly edited scripts and devoted herself particularly to the film dialogues. In 1959 she made her debut with the detective novel Trettio meter mord (30 meters murder). More crime novels followed, but in the late 1960s she increasingly moved away from this genre. With the documentary novel Menedarna (the perjury) in 1970 and the description of the wilderness Mörker och blåbärsris (dt. Midsummer dark ) 1972 it achieved a literary breakthrough in the Vallmsta tetralogy consisting of Häxringarna 1974 (dt. Fairy rings ), Springkällan 1976 (dt . The spring source ), Änglahuset 1979 (German: the angel house ) and En stad av ljus 1983 (German: city ​​of light ), culminated. The tetralogy describes the (industrial) development of a small town in central Sweden (following the example of Katrineholm ) through a century; the fate of women is the focus.

In 1978 Ekman was elected to the Swedish Academy . Because she accused the Swedish Academy of exercising too much restraint during the attacks on Salman Rushdie , she and Lars Gyllensten withdrew from the work of the academy in 1989 . Ekman has decided not to consider himself a member since then, while the rules of the academy did not provide for membership to be terminated until 2018. On May 7, 2018, her application to leave was finally approved.

In the late 1970s drew Ekman with her husband, a call to the Mittuniversitetet ( Sundsvall , Östersund and Härnösand had received), according to Norrland . The Nordic landscape, the people in Norrland, but also the economic and social modernization of society remained an important theme of her literary work. She is particularly interested in shaping the fate of those who are excluded from the modernization process, both voluntarily and involuntarily. Handel's vid vatten 1993 (German events on the water ) and the trilogy Vargskinnet (The Wolf's Pelt ), completed in 2003 , consisting of the novels Guds barmhärtighet (German on the black water ), Sista rompan (German The last rafts ) and Skraplotter , play in a mountain village in Jämtland and describe the development of the small settlement in the 20th century - again mainly through the fate of women from three generations.

Awards (selection)

Works

Note: All of the translations into German listed since 1988 are by Hedwig M. Binder .

  • 1959 Trettio meter murder (German 1959 The death is on film , 2001 The night before the murder )
  • 1960 Han rör på sig
  • 1960 famnen Kalla
  • 1961 De tre små mästarna (German 1962 The three little masters )
  • 1962 Den brinnande ugnen (German 1963 The Burning Furnace )
  • 1963 Dödsklockan (German 1974, 2001 The Death Bell )
  • 1967 Pukehornet (German 1997 Winter of Lies )
  • 1970 Menedarna
  • 1972 Mörker och blåbärsris (German 2002 midsummer darkness )
  • Kvinnorna och staden ( Vallmsta tetralogy )
    • 1974 Häxringarna (German 1978 Bannkreise , 1988 Hexenringe , Neuer Malik Verlag, Kiel, as btb paperback, ISBN 3-442-72056-7 )
    • 1976 Springkällan (German 1989 The Spring Spring )
    • 1979 Änglahuset (German 1990 The Angel House )
    • 1983 En stad av ljus (German 1992 City of Light )
  • 1986 dogs (German dog heart , Piper Verlag, Munich and Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05352-5 - not to be confused with Michail Bulgakov's dog heart )
  • 1988 Rövarna i Skuleskogen (German 1995 Skord von Skuleskogen )
  • 1990 Knivkastarens kvinna
  • 1993 Handel vid vatten (German 1995 Events on the Water )
  • 1996 Gör mig levande igen (German 1998 brought to life )
  • 2000 Urminnes tecken (German 2002 The Call of the Raven )
  • Vargskinnet ( The Wolf's Fur Trilogy )
    • 1999 Guds barmhärtighet (German. 2000 Am schwarzen Wasser )
    • 2002 Sista rompan (German 2003 The Last Rafts )
    • 2003 Skraplotter (German 2005 Time in Glass )
  • 2007 Herrarna i skogen (German 2008 The forest. A literary hike )
  • 2009 murder practice (German 2009 diary of a murderer )
  • 2011: Grand final i skojarbranschen (German swindlers , Piper Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-05544-4 )

Web links

Commons : Kerstin Ekman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wilhelm Goldmann (ed.): Lexicon of Goldmann pocket books . tape 1000 . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 112 .
  2. ↑ Hedersdoktorer Humanistisk fakultet Umeå universitet ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.humfak.umu.se
  3. ↑ Review by Burkhard Müller : Hear, smell, eat . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 29, 2009, ISSN  0174-4917 .
  4. ↑ Review by Antje Rávic Strubel : Unbridled lust for the absurd. Book of the week: Kerstin Ekman. Swindlers. Piper Publishing House. In: deutschlandfunk.de . December 9, 2012, accessed January 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ekman, Kerstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ekman, Kerstin Lillemor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Risinge