Ragnhild Jølsen

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Ragnhild Jølsen 1905

Ragnhild Theodora Jølsen (born on March 28, 1875 in Enebakk ; died on January 28, 1908 there ) was a Norwegian writer . A main theme of her books was Norwegian narrative traditions and the conflict between the old rural and modern industrial society.

Life

Ragnhild Jølsen was the youngest of nine children; four of her siblings died early. Her father Holm Jølsen (1833–1906) was Norway's third largest match manufacturer between 1866 and 1886 with a factory in Ekebergdalen. Jølsen grew up on his parents' farm ( Ekeberg gård ) in Enebakk , Akershus . The large farm had been in the family since 1634 and was only sold in 1903. After a severe financial hit for her family, she moved to the capital, Kristiania , in 1889 and finished school in 1891. In 1896 she returned to Enebakk and attended the local girls' school ( Nissens pikeskole ). She then worked as a governess for relatives in 1897 and 1898 .

On the side she was already writing stories, from 1902 for the women's magazine Kvinnebladet Urd . The death of her mother the following year and her father in 1906 forced her to publish her works. She was one of Norway's bohemians , studied the works of other Scandinavian writers and worked inspiration into her own. She had a long, extramarital relationship with the painter Carl Dørnberger . In November 1906 she received a travel grant and traveled to Rome from where she returned with new ideas in July 1907. She died unmarried in January 1908, allegedly of a sedative overdose .

Works

Jølsen was controversial as an author, as in her works she described the transformation of an agricultural society into an industrial one. Her style was characterized by short, short sentences and allows her books to refer to past periods of time in a dreamy or mystical way, only to swivel back hard into the present. Her books also shocked with their revealing portrayal of female sexuality, so that reviewers even suspected a man to be the author. After her death, based on her anthology of works stories , she was classified as a representative of contemporary homeland literature, which advocated domestic self-sufficiency.

  • Ve's mor (1903, Weh's mother )
  • Rikka Gan (1904, Rikka Gan )
  • Fernanda Mona (1905, Fernando Mona )
  • Hollases Krønike (1906, Hollasen's Chronicle )
  • Brukshistorier (1907, factory stories )
  • Efterlatte arbeider (1908, posthumous)
  • Samlede skrifter (1909, posthumous)

Remembrance

  • In 1938 a memorial stone with her portrait in bronze was erected in Enebakk.
  • In 1964 she was described in the biographical novel Jens Bjørneboes , Drømmen og hjulet ("The dream and the wheel").
  • In 2008 the congregation organized a 100th anniversary celebration in their memory.
  • In 1988 and 2008 Aschehoug published a new edition of her works.
  • In 2008, Håkon Tysdal wrote her biography Fra Ign til Fontana di Trevi - enreise gjennom Ragnhild Jølsens siste leveår ( From Ign to Trevi Fountain - a journey through the last years of Ragnhild Jølsen's life .)
  • The Norwegian band Moys released the album Måneskinn og tåke ("Moonlight and Fog") in November 2009 , which refers to Jølsen.

literature

  • Antonie Tiberg: Ragnhild Jølsen in liv and digtning. Aschehoug, 1909
  • Øyvin Ribsskog: Ragnhild Jølsen's saga. Ski, 1976
  • Kari Christensen: Portrett på mørk treplate. Ragnhild Jølsens live and forfatterskap. Aschehoug, 1989, ISBN 82-03-15975-3
  • Helge Norddahl: Tre kyss for the ensomme fugl. Syv essays from Ragnhild Jølsen's diktning. Aschehoug, 1991
  • Arnhild Skre : La meg bli som leopard: Ragnhild Jølsen - en biografi. 2009, ISBN 978-82-03-29187-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ragnhild Theodore Jølsen (Store norske leksikon)
  2. ↑ Holm Jølsen (Norsk biografisk leksikon)
  3. ↑ Ekebergdalen (Store norske leksikon)
  4. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 247
  5. ↑ Ragnhild (Theodore) Jølsen (Kunstnere i Akershus) ( Memento of the original of July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / akershus.kulturnett.no
personal data
SURNAME Jølsen, Ragnhild
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jølsen, Ragnhild Theodora (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Enebakk
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1908
Place of death Enebakk