Ketil Bjørnstad
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
- 1974 Spellemannprisen for the classic album Berget Det Blå
- 1978 Sarpsborg Prize
- 1988 Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris for his novel Nade ( Grace )
- 1989 Mads Wiel Nygaards legat
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)
Discography (selection)
- Leve Patagonia (1978)
- Karen Mowat Suite (1989)
- The Shadow (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1990)
- Odyssey (1990)
- For den som elsker (1994)
- Water Stories (ECM, 1993, with Terje Rypdal, Bjørn Kjellemyr , Jon Christensen and Per Hillestad )
- The Sea (ECM 1995, with David Darling , Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen )
- Haugtussa (1995, with Lynni Treekrem )
- The River (ECM 1997, with David Darling )
- Nytt liv (1998)
- The Sea II (ECM, 1998, with David Darling , Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen )
- Løsrivelse (1998, with Kari Bremnes )
- 20 Variasjoner over preludium & fuge i ciss-minor by Johann Sebastian Bach - The Rosenborg tapes vol. 2 (1999)
- Epigraphs (ECM, 2000, with David Darling )
- Grace (Emarcy, 2001)
- Before the Light (November Music, 2002)
- The Nest (Emarcy, 2003)
- Seafarer's Song (2004, with Kristin Asbjørnsen , Nils Petter Molvær and Eivind Aarset )
- Floating (Verve, 2006, with Marilyn Mazur and Palle Danielsson )
- Rainbow Sessions (Emarcy, 2006)
- Devotions (2007, with Arild Andersen, Alex Riel and Wolfgang Puschnig )
- The Light - Songs of Love and Fear (ECM, 2008, with Randi Stene and Lars Anders Tomter )
- Life in Leipzig (ECM, 2008, with Terje Rypdal )
- Remembrance (ECM, 2010, with Tore Brunborg and Jon Christensen )
- Night Song (ECM, 2011, with Svante Henrysson )
- Early Piano Music (Hubro, 2011)
- Vinding's Music - Songs from the Alder Thicket (ECM, 2012)
- La Notte (ECM, 2013)
- Sunrise - A cantata on texts by Edvard Munch (ECM, 2014)
- A passion for John Donne (ECM, 2015)
- Sanger om Tilhørighet (Grappa, 2016)
- Shimmering / Images (2-CD-Set, Grappa, 2016)
- Frolandia - 17 singers (2015, with Ole Paus )
- A Suite Of Poems (ECM, 2018, with Anneli Drecker and Lars Saabye Christensen)
- The World I Used To Know (Grappa, 2019, solo at Abbey Road Studio London)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ketil Bjørnstad in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ketil Bjornstad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ketil Bjørnstad at perlentaucher.de
swell
- ↑ Review by Konrad Heidkamp in DIE ZEIT Nº 43/2006
- ↑ Ketil Björnstad's biography, Jazz Echo
- ^ Carina Prange: At Ketil Bjørnstad in Oslo. Fjord rhythms , ZEIT ONLINE February 24, 2009
- ↑ Review note in Perlentaucher.de
- ↑ The world that was mine. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bjørnstad, Ketil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian writer, poet, composer and pianist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |