Nils Ferlin

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Nils Ferlin statue in Stockholm

Nils Ferlin (born December 11, 1898 in Karlstad , † October 21, 1961 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish poet.

Life

Nils Ferlin's father was a newspaper editor. In 1908 the family moved to Filipstad , where Ferlin's father became editor-in-chief of the local newspaper. The following year, the father was found drowned, possibly a suicide. In 1914, Nils Ferlin completed the six-year secondary school. After several short-term activities, he went to sea in 1915, but after a few years moved back to Filipstad, where he worked as a revue artist. He later moved to Stockholm, where he attended drama school. On February 22, 1946, Nils Ferlin married and then moved to the country. Ferlin died in 1961 after spending the final years of his life in the hospital.

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Nils Ferlin began his literary career - like Birger Sjöberg - as a writer of songs and couplets for revues. Later he confessed self-critically in a well-known poem: Jag har sålt mina visor till nöjets estrader / och Gud må förlåta mig somliga rader (I sold my songs to entertainment stages / and may God forgive me a few lines).

Nils Ferlin is considered to be the embodiment of the typical bohemian . It is mostly associated with the legendary Bohème of the old Klara district in Stockholm - which was demolished in the 1960s. Nils Ferlin wrote catchy, often song-like, poems that cast a sober, pessimistic look at life from the position of the skeptical outsider. Many of his poems have been set to music. The settings by Lille Bror Söderlundh are particularly famous . The language of Nils Ferlin's poems is emphatically artless and simple. Nils Ferlin is strongly influenced by his great role model Gustaf Fröding , who also came from Värmland .

Poetry collections

The poem Stjärnorna kvittar det lika (1930) as wall poetry in Leiden (2003).
  • En döddansares visor (songs of a death dancer , 1930)
  • Barfotabarn (barefoot children, 1933)
  • Goggles (Goggles, 1938)
  • Med många kulörta lyktor (With many colored lanterns, 1944)
  • Kejsarens papegoja (The Emperor's Parrot, 1951)
  • Från mitt ekorrhjul (From my hamster wheel, 1957)
  • En gammal cylinderhatt (an old cylinder hat, posthumously 1962)

German language edition

  • Nils Ferlin, In the Labyrinth of Life , Selected Poems. Anacreon, Munich 2003. ISBN 3932759516

literature

  • Jenny Westerström: Nils Ferlin. Ett dictally . Bonnier, Stockholm 1998, ISBN 91-0-056248-3 , (1999 also as audio book).
  • Bernt Olsson, Ingemar Algulin: Litteraturens historia i Sverige . 4th edition. Norstedt, Stockholm 1995, ISBN 91-1-943632-7 .
  • Göran Hägg: Den svenska literaturhistorien . Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-46-16928-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ferlin, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlstad , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1961
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden