Ketil Bjørnstad

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Ketil Bjørnstad (2009)
Ketil Bjørnstad (Moers Festival 2004)

Ketil Bjørnstad (born April 25, 1952 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian writer, poet, composer and pianist.

Life

Bjørnstad studied classical piano in Oslo, London and Paris. At the age of 16 he played Béla Bartók's 3rd piano concerto with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra . Later he worked across genres with musicians in the jazz and rock fields. His first album under his own name, Åpning , was recorded in 1973 with a quartet that included guitarist Jon Eberson , bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Jon Christensen . He is u. a. known for his collaboration with Terje Rypdal ( The Sea -Quartett and duo concerts) and several times at the Moers Festivaloccurred. His CD Floating from 2005 topped the jazz charts of the magazines Musikmarkt and Musikwoche.

In 1972 Bjørnstad made his debut as a writer with the poetry book Alene ut . He has published 32 books, mostly novels, but also collections of poetry and essays. In Germany he became known for his novel biographies about Edvard Munch (1995) and Edvard Grieg (1998). His novel Vindings Spiel was on the 2006 fiction bestseller list of Der Spiegel magazine . It was the first novel in a trilogy, the second volume of which was published in German in 2009 under the title Der Fluss and concluded in 2010 with The Woman in the Valley . With his trilogy Bjørnstad had achieved something great, wrote Peter Henning in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , "a story of the fruitless efforts to try to hold onto happiness."

Awards

bibliography

  • Alene ut (lyric, 1972)
  • Nærmere (poetry, 1973)
  • Nattsvermere (novel, 1974)
  • Kråker og krigere (novel, 1975)
  • Pavane (novel, 1976)
  • Vinterbyen (novel, 1977)
  • Landet på andre siden (novel, 1979)
  • Bingo! eller: En Dyd av Nødvendighet (novel, 1983)
  • Oda! (Documentary novel, 1983)
  • Det personal motive (Roman, 1985)
  • Vi accuser! Treholtsaken and rettssikkerheten (1986)
  • G minor ballads (documentary novel, 1986), German as a ballad in G minor
  • Samtaler med Lill (portrait interview , 1986)
  • Oppstigning fra det usynlige (novel, 1988)
  • Stormen (novel, 1989)
  • Skumringsmulighetene (novel, 1990)
  • Villa Europa (novel, 1992)
  • Histories om Edvard Munch (documentary novel, 1993)
  • Barnevakt (novel, 1994)
  • Spill! Ole Bull og Myllarguten (play, 1995)
  • Blåmann. Musikk og tekster gjennom 20 år (1995)
  • Drift (novel, 1996)
  • Drømmen om havet (novel, 1996)
  • Veien til Dhaka (novel, 1997)
  • Nåde (novel, 1998)
  • Fall (Roman, 1999), German as Erling's case. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-39945-4 .
  • Ludvig Hassels tusenårsskifte (Roman, 2000), German as The Dance of Life. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-458-17097-9 .
  • Jæger (biography, 2001)
  • Men som gikk på jorden (2002)
  • Tesmann (2003)
  • Dager og nicer i Paris (2003)
  • Til musikken (2004), German as Vindings game. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45891-4 .
  • Elven (2007), German as Der Fluss. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-46171-6 .
  • Damen i dalen (2009), German as Die Frau im Tal . Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-35792-6 .
  • De udødelige (2011), German as The Immortals . Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-458-36015-5 .
  • Veien til Mozart (2014), German as Mein Weg zu Mozart . Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2016
  • Verdens ende (Roman 2012), German as Emma or Das Ende der Welt , Osburg Verlag (February 1, 2017), ISBN 978-3955101282
  • Verden som var min. Sekstitallet (Roman 2015), German as Die Welt that was mine. The sixties , Osburg Verlag (autumn 2018), ISBN 978-3-95510-163-3
  • Verden som var min. Syttitallet (2016), German as Die Welt that was mine. The seventies, Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-95510-196-1
  • Verden som var min. Åttitallet (2017)
  • Verden som var min. Nittitallet (2018)
  • Verden som var min. Tyvetallet (2019)
Ketil Bjørnstad at the Oslo Jazz Festival (2016)

Discography (selection)

Web links

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  1. ↑ Review by Konrad Heidkamp in DIE ZEIT Nº 43/2006
  2. ↑ Ketil Björnstad's biography, Jazz Echo
  3. ^ Carina Prange: At Ketil Bjørnstad in Oslo. Fjord rhythms , ZEIT ONLINE February 24, 2009
  4. ↑ Review note in Perlentaucher.de
  5. ↑ The world that was mine. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bjørnstad, Ketil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer, poet, composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo