Marie Bregendahl

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Marie Bregendahl (born November 6, 1867 in Bregenda in the parish Fly Sogn, in today's municipality of Viborg near Skive , † July 22, 1940 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish writer .

Life

Marie Bregendahl's gravestone in the Fly cemetery

Marie Sørensen was born to the farmer Peder Sørensen and was the oldest of eight siblings. Her father later changed the name to the Bregendahl family farm - she took the name again in 1923. Her mother died early and so Marie had to take on a lot of responsibility on the farm.

Previously engaged to a farmer, Bregendahl married the Jutland folk teller Jeppe Aakjær in 1893 , during which she came into closer contact with literature. The couple gave up the jointly run inn in Copenhagen after their divorce in 1900. Above all, she wrote works of so-called regional literature, in which she described, mostly from the perspective of women, the hardship of the rural population. Her understanding of the social problem came from her own experience: Bregendahl's father was a farmer in the Viborg district , and she herself spent her entire life in the area where her books were set.

In 1927 Marie Bregendahl won the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat , a Danish prize awarded annually since 1924 for outstanding academic, artistic or literary achievements by women in the form of a travel grant.

Works (selection)

  • 1904: Hendrik i Bakken (novel)
  • 1912: En Dødsnat (novel)
  • 1926: Med aabne Sind (novella)
  • 1934–1935: Holger Hauge og hans Hustru ( novel cycle)
  • 1935: Sødalsfolkene
  • 1936: Møllen og other Fortællinger ( short stories)
  • 1937: Filtret Høst (verse book)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. 1000 biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 80.

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personal data
SURNAME Bregendahl, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenda near Skive
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1940
Place of death Copenhagen