Olav Duun

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Olav Duun, 1936
Olav Duun memorial stone in Jøa , Fosnes municipality

Olav Duun (born November 21, 1876 in Fosnes ; † September 13, 1939 in Holmestrand ) was a Norwegian writer who primarily appeared as a narrator. He primarily described the struggle of peasant people against inner temptations and the forces of nature. His main work is usually the six-volume novel cycle Die Juwikinger , published 1918-23, which is available in English and German, among others. Duun wrote mainly in Nynorsk (formerly Landsmål ), colored by the dialect of his homeland, Namdalen .

life and work

The son from a farming and fishing family initially followed in their footsteps until he trained as a teacher at the age of 25. During the teachers' seminar he was promoted by the writer Vetle Vislie , with whom he became friends. Duun made his prose debut in 1907. He continued teaching until 1927, most recently in Holmestrand . At the age of 50 he quit his job in order to devote himself entirely to writing. He stayed with his wife Emma (married in 1908, † 1970) in Holmestrand, where they lived in a house in the Rambergfjelle district that is now a memorial. Duun died of a stroke in 1939.

In the case of “unsentimental feeling for nature”, Duun's style, “concise, clear and similar to that of the sagas ”, included coarse humor and subtle irony at the same time. His relationship to the sublime was rather pagan.

The narrator, who was respected in Norway during his lifetime, also stayed several times in Germany, to which he was particularly close. His books, translated into German, had many readers. On the one hand, most of these translations were published by the “Jewish” Berlin publisher Bruno Cassirer, who had to emigrate after 1933; on the other hand, several works by Duun, including Die Juwikinger, were published in 1942 under the Hitler regime.

Duun's big cycle of novels deals with the story of a Trönder family from around 1800 to 1920. The protagonists, drawn with “piercing psychology”, are in a battle with internal and external forces, struggling for goodness, humanity and dignity. The complaint that “chiefs” are growing less and less does not mean hard-hearted, exaggerated rulers, as Odin's sacrifice to Lauris recently made clear: “During a crossing the boat capsizes, and although he is the stronger, he enables his archenemy to save himself , and choose death yourself. "

Awards

Duun has been nominated repeatedly for the Nobel Prize for Literature , but always came away empty-handed. In 1926 he drew the short straw to George Bernard Shaw with one vote .

Works

  • Løglege skruvar and anna folk , 1907
  • Marjane , short stories, 1908
  • På tvert (In the Cross), 1909
  • Nøkksjølia , 1910
  • Gamal jord , 1911
  • Hilderøya , 1912
  • Sigyn, Sommareventyr , 1913
  • Tre venner (Three Friends), 1914
  • Harald , Roman, 1915
  • Det gode samvite (The Good Conscience), novel, 1916
  • På Lyngsøya , short stories, 1917
  • Juvikfolket (The Juwikings), six-volume novel series, 1918–23
    • Juvikingar (Juwika), 1918
    • I blinda ( Struck with Blindness), 1919
    • Storbybryllope (The Grand Wedding ), 1920
    • I eventyret (The Adventure Land ), 1921
    • I undimmed (In der Jugend), 1922
    • I stormen (Im Sturm), 1923
  • Blind-Anders , 1924
  • Straumen og evja , 1925
  • Olsøygutane (The Olsöy Boys), novel, 1927, first German edition Hamburg 1939
  • Carolus Magnus , novel, 1928
  • Medmenneske (Mitmensch), novel, 1929, 1st part of a trilogy
  • Vegar og villstig , Roman, 1930
  • Ragnhild , Roman, 1931, 2nd part of the trilogy
  • Ettermæle (The Walk Through the Night), novel, 1932, first German edition Berlin 1936
  • Siste leveåre (The Last Year), novel, 1933, 3rd part of the trilogy
  • Gud smiler (God smiles), novel, 1935, first German edition Hamburg 1939
  • Samtid , 1936
  • Menneske og maktene (Man and the Powers), novel, 1938, first German edition Hamburg 1941

literature

  • Rolv theses: Olav Duun , Oslo 1946
  • Daniel Haakonsen: Olav Duun. En dikter om var egen tid , Oslo 1949
  • Rolv theses: Seks unge om Olav Duun , Oslo 1950
  • A. Sæteren: Mennesket og samfunnet. En motivundersokelse inside for Olav Duuns diktning , Oslo 1956
  • Daniel Haakonsen: Olav Duun - tre essays , Oslo 1958
  • R. Eide: Menneskenes rike. Livssyn and livsholdning i Olav Duuns siste verker , in: Edda 68/1968, pages 39-69
  • Olav Dalgard (Ed.): Olav Duun. Ei bok til 100-arsjubiléet , Oslo 1976
  • Bjarte Birkeland: Olav Duuns even and forteljingar. Forteljekunst og tematikk , 1976
  • A. Dalen: Talemal som litterar rice cap. Om Olav Duuns sprak , in: Unitekst 2/1977, pages 38–53
  • Bjarne Slapgard: Humanism and Kristendom i Olav Duuns dictation , in: IDEA. Idéhistoriske studier , 5/1983
  • Hans Jörg Zumsteg: Olav Duuns Medmenneske-Trilogie , Basel 1984 (Contributions to Nordic Philology, 14, ISBN 3-7190-0870-3 )
  • Otto Hageberg: Olav Duun. Biografiske og literaturhistoriske streiflys , Oslo 1996, ISBN 82-521-4602-3
  • Sivert Fløttum: Olav Duun. Dikteren på Rambergfjellet. En biografi , Melhus 2003, ISBN 82-99665-20-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kindler's New Literature Lexicon , Munich Edition 1988
  2. ↑ SNL , accessed June 29, 2011
  3. ↑ Museum ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 29, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nord-jarlsberg.museum.no
  4. ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia in the 19th edition, Volume 6 from 1988
  5. ↑ Otto Hageberg ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 57 kB), accessed on June 29, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oslo.diplo.de
  6. ↑ bookrags , accessed June 29, 2011
  7. ↑ Parts appeared in German as early as the 1920s; the first complete German edition (in one volume) was published in Berlin in 1952
  8. ↑ With Ragnhild, a female figure is at the center of this trilogy. For Kindler 's work ranks just behind the Juwikingern . The first German edition (in one volume) appeared in Hamburg in 1948.
personal data
SURNAME Duun, Olav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Fosnes
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1939
Place of death Holmestrand