Malan Marnersdóttir

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Malan Marnersdóttir (born January 25, 1952 in Klaksvík , Faroe Islands ; originally Malan Marnersdóttir Simonsen ) is the first feminist Faroese literary scholar and was Rector of the University of the Faroe Islands until December 1, 2004 (Fróðskaparsetur Føroya).

Life

Malan was born in 1952 in the Faroese fishing metropolis Klaksvík as the daughter of the doctor Marner Andreas Simonsen (* 1921 in Tórshavn ; † 2001) and the nurse Anna Kristina Godtfred (* 1920 in Vágur ). Malan Marnersdóttir's adopted daughter Jóna Maria was born in 1982. Her (second) husband Jens Cramer (* 1940 in Hadersleben ) is a Danish Scandinavian .

Due to her father's job, she grew up in different parts of the Faroe Islands and Denmark . After graduating from Tórshavner Gymnasium in 1971, she studied French at the University of Aarhus and then Danish at the University of Copenhagen , where she completed her master's degree in 1979. Immediately afterwards she was a teacher at her old grammar school until 1981. After that, she became a lecturer for Danish and Faroese at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1983 she has been working at the Faroese Institute (Føroyamálsdeild) at the University of the Faroe Islands in Tórshavn . From 1998 to 2004 she was rector of the university and received the title of professor on May 19, 2004.

Malan Marnersdótter is the first Faroese author who systematically dealt with the role of Faroese women in literature and society. In 1988 she wrote the play Logi, logi, eldur mín (“Ignite my flame”) about Johanna Maria Skylv Hansen together with Laura Joensen . Her dissertation is about the national Faroese movement around the turn of the century and its perception in public and literature. This resulted in two works: Kvinnurøddir (“Women's Voices”) appeared in 1985, then in 1989 Konurák (“Women's Movement”). Both books are about the work of Súsanna Helena Patursson and her early colleagues in the first women's magazine Oyggjarnar . 1992 appeared with Fyri fyrst ("Provisional") and Bylgjurnar leika í trá ("The waves play in the longing") two collections of the earliest Faroese women's literature. For the latter work she received the Faroese Literature Prize for Specialized Literature (MA Jacobsens virðisløn). In 1994 she and her students wrote the book Vinalagið, náttúran og samfelagið ("Friendship, Nature and Society") about Marianna Debes Dahl . In the standard work Nordisk kvindelitteraturhistorie ("Nordic women's literature history") 1993-1998 she writes the section on the Faroe Islands.

In addition to many offices, including in the Nordic Council , which arose from her university career, Malan Marnersdóttir was President of the biennial congress of the International Association of Scandinavian Studies in 1998 at its meeting in the Faroe Islands.

On April 25, 2005 Malan Marnersdóttir had the honor of delivering the traditional Faroe Flag Day speech on Vaglið (central square in Tórshavn ) . It is the 65th anniversary of Merkið .

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SURNAME Marnersdóttir, Malan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marnersdóttir Simonsen, Malan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first feminist Faroese literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Klaksvík , Faroe Islands