Ludvig Holstein

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Count Ludvig Detlef von Holstein (born December 3, 1864 in Kalvehave Sogn , died July 11, 1943 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish poet and writer.

Life

Ludvig Holstein: Digte

Ludvig Holstein comes from the north German-Danish noble family Holstein . His parents were Friedrich Adolph von Holstein and his wife Countess Wilhelmine Julie von Reventlow (born 1788) from the House of Brahe-Trolleborg. His brother was the Danish politician Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg . Holstein was married three times.

Holstein studied philosophy and lived mainly in Copenhagen . His poems are often shaped by the experiences of nature that he made on his travels to Zealand . He belonged to the Danish generation of writers in the 1890s and was inspired by a pantheistic natural philosophy . In addition to love poems, his works deal with the secrets of creation and the natural rhythms of life and death in nature.

Holstein published his first volume of poetry in 1895 under the title Digte (German poems ). Further works are Samlingerne Løv (1915), Mos og Muld (1917), Æbletid (1920), Jehi (1929) and Dramaet Tove (1898).

reception

The work of Holstein was honored with Danish literary prizes. Some of his poems were translated into German by Otto Hauser in 1904 as part of a study on Danish poetry .

The Danish composer Carl Nielsen set twelve of his poems to music , for example the poem Det er Lærkernes Tid from his first volume of poems (1895, p. 16f), which sings about the signs of spring: “Der er Lærkernes Tid / Ad unsynlige Gange / piler deres Sange / named Luft, / som he sitrende blid - / det er Lærkernes Tid. ”(Eng.“ It is the time of the larks, invisible signs, gently trembling, their shrill singing cuts through the air. That is the time of the larks. ” ) (First of a total of four stanzas.) The settings contributed greatly to the spread and further awareness of the poems of Holstein.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henning Gøtz, Livets Herold: digteren Ludvig Holstein 1864-1943, Museerne.dk, 2006.
  2. ^ Biography of Ludvig Holstein at Den Store Danske
  3. ^ Anne-Marie Reynolds: Carl Nielsen's Voice: His Songs in Context. Museum Tusculanum Press 2010, ISBN 978-8-763-52598-5 , p. 55
  4. ^ List of the literary award winners Denmark
  5. ^ Otto Hauser: Danish poetry from 1880 to 1900. A study and translations. Baumert & Ronge, Großenhain 1904. Online excerpt
  6. ↑ Sound example Holstein / Nielsen Der er Lærkernes Tid.
personal data
SURNAME Holstein, Ludvig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holstein, Ludvig Detlef von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish lyric poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalvehave Sogn
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1943
Place of death Copenhagen