Maaliaaraq Vebæk
Marie "Maaliaaraq" Athalie Ketura Vebæk (according to the old spelling Mâliâraĸ Vebæk , born Kleist ; born April 20, 1917 in Narsarmijit ; † February 25, 2012 ) was a Greenlandic writer , ethnologist and journalist .
Life
Maaliaaraq Vebæk was born as the daughter of the poet Josva Kleist (1879–1938) and his wife Bolette Marie Ingeborg Chemnitz (1888–1957). Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of Pastor Jens Chemnitz (1890–1956). On August 4, 1945 she married the Danish archaeologist Christian Leif Pagh Vebæk (1913–1994). The daughters Bolette (* 1946) and Astrid (* 1947) emerged from the marriage.
Maaliaaraq visited the newly opened girl efterskole in Aasiaat from 1933 . She received top marks and was allowed to go to school in Denmark from 1934 . In Denmark she lived with the family of the former church minister Thorvald Povlsen . In 1939 she graduated from Th. Langs Seminarium in Silkeborg . She then moved back to Greenland, where she worked as a teacher in Ilulissat , Aasiaat and Paamiut . In Paamiut she met her future husband and after the wedding they both moved to Denmark. During her husband's research trips she was often involved in ethnological research and began to collect traditional songs, sagas and stories. From the 1950s she published them in Danish newspapers and illustrated them herself. She also worked as an interpreter, translator, literary critic and freelance journalist. In Copenhagen she came into contact with Greenlanders in Denmark. This resulted in the report Grønlændere i Danmark 1971–72 / Kalâtdlit Danmarkime , which dealt with the social conditions of the Greenlanders in Denmark.
Inspired by her experiences in Denmark, she became the first Greenlandic woman to publish a novel in 1981. Búsime nâpíneĸ was translated into Danish by herself with the title Historien om Katrine . The book was also published in Sami and Russian . The book deals with the story of a Greenlandic woman who follows her Danish husband to Denmark and finally commits suicide there because of the problems she experienced there. Usually Greenlandic literature at the time referred to political issues and nationalism, and so the book broached a new topic with its socially related content. In 1992 she released a sequel that deals with the racism experienced by Katrine's daughter. However, a planned third volume did not appear. She also published an annotated collection of songs and a children's book, and also began to edit her collected stories. Overall, however, her literary work mainly consisted of the portrayal of the social role of Greenland women in Denmark.
In 1982 she received the Greenland Authors Association Prize for her debut novel. In 2001 she received the Greenland Culture Prize . She died in 2012 at the age of 94.
Works
- 1981: Búsime nâpíneĸ (novel; published in Danish in 1982 as Historien om Katrine )
- 1983: Niperujûtit / Sange fra Sydgrønland (song collection)
- 1990: Navaranaaq og de andre (non-fiction book; published in Greenlandic in 1996 as Navaranaaq allallu )
- 1992: Ukiut trettenit qaangiummata (novel; published in Danish in 1997 as Tretten år efter )
- 1995: Sassuma arnaanut pulaarneq (children's book, illustrated by Aka Høegh ; published in Danish in 1995 as Besøg hos havets moder )
- 2001: Tusarn! Kujataamiut unikkaartuaat unikkaaluilu (collection of songs; published in Danish in 2001 as Tusarn. Sydgrønlandske fortællinger )
- 2006: The Southernmost People of Greenland - Dialects and Memories (non-fiction book, published in the series Meddelelser om Grønland )
literature
- Elisabeth Møller Jensen (Ed.): Nordisk kvindelitteraturhistorie . tape 4 . Rosinante, 1997, ISBN 978-87-16-14661-8 , pp. 552-554 .
- Elisabeth Møller Jensen (Ed.): Nordisk kvindelitteraturhistorie . tape 5 . Rosinante, 1998, ISBN 978-87-16-14663-2 .
- Karen Nørregaard: Mâliâraq Vebæk in Den Store Danske
- John Chr. Jørgensen (Ed.): Dansk forfatterleksikon. Biografier . Rosinante, 2001, ISBN 87-621-0040-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Church books Narsarmijit 1912-1926 (Born Girls I p. 72)
- ↑ Biography in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
- ↑ Entry at litteraturpriser.dk
- ↑ Mâliâraq Vebæk he død in Sermitsiaq
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vebæk, Maaliaaraq |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vebæk, Mâliâraĸ (old spelling); Vebæk, Marie Athalie Ketura (full name); Kleist, Marie Athalie Ketura (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greenlandic writer, ethnologist and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Narsarmijit |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 2012 |