Rolf Jacobsen
Rolf Jacobsen (born March 8, 1907 in Kristiania , † February 20, 1994 in Hamar ) was a Norwegian poet and journalist. Some of his poems have been set to music.
life and work
Rolf Jacobsen studied theology and philology after graduating from high school in 1926 . In 1930 he was one of the founders of the first mixed Scandinavian student choir. Under the pseudonym Rolf Høvre he wrote some popular texts. In 1933 his first volume of poetry, Jord og jern (Earth and Iron), was published, in which, as in the volume Vrimmel ( Gewimmel ), which appeared two years later, he was enthusiastic about technology and described the hectic urban life, but also related to nature. He wanted to incorporate modern civilization into his rhyming lyric poetry, “word and rhythm” should breathe the “sphere of the roar of planes and lifting cranes and railway sleepers. In Jacobsen's city, the telephone wires are nerve fibers, the gas lines are blood vessels ”.
Jacobsen worked as a journalist; he married in 1940. In the same year he joined the fascist party Nasjonal Samling . In 1945 he was arrested. He said he would not have joined the party if the king and government had not left the country. He was sentenced to three and a half years in a labor camp.
In 1951 Jacobsen converted to Catholicism and, after a 16-year hiatus, published his third volume of poetry, Fjerntog . In 1953 he was again included in the writers' association Den norske Forfatterforening . His most famous poems come from the poetry collection Hemmelig liv (Secret Life) published in 1954 . "His poetry" has become "internalized, more nuanced and less rhetorical, [...] humor and cheerfulness also resonate."
Jacobsen's poems were set to music by composers Helge Iberg , Egil Kapstad ("Til jorden", 1979), Ketil Bjørnstad ("The Sorrow (Rolf Jacobsen Memoriam)", 2006) and Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen ; The latter composed, among others, “Ensomme” for mixed choir in 1992 and “Vår jord, vår Evighet”, a cantata on the occasion of Tromsø's 200th anniversary in 1994 .
His poems in the Nattåpent poetry collection, published in 1985, express grief over his wife, who died in 1983, but also resignation . Jacobsen's poetry has been translated into a dozen languages. Hans Magnus Enzensberger was the only Norwegian poet to include him in his Museum of Modern Poetry collection .
Publications
- Jord og jern (1933)
- Vrimmel (1935)
- Fjerntog (1951)
- Hemmelig liv (1954)
- Sommeren i gresset (1956)
- Brev til lyset (1960)
- Breastfeeding efterpå (1965)
- Headlines (1969)
- Pass for dørene - dørene lukkes (1972)
- Pusteøvelse (1975)
- The ensomme veranda (1977)
- Tenk på noe annet (1979)
- Liv laga (1982)
- Nattåpent (1985)
- All Mine Dict (1990)
Poems in German anthologies (selection)
- Klaus Anders; Andreas Struve: This is how a star tastes. Norwegian poetry of the 20th century . Bilingual. Edition Rugerup 2011, ISBN 978-3-942955-01-0
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Museum of Modern Poetry . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1960
- Manfred Gsteiger (Hrsg.): Ships in the world literature . Manesse 2001, ISBN 978-3-7175-1969-0
Awards (selection)
- 1960: Critics' Prize
- 1965: Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris
- 1968: Dobloug Prize
- 1970: Ønskediktprisen (Poetry Prize of the Norwegian Radio)
- 1986: Aschehoug Prize
- 1989: Nordic Prize from the Swedish Academy
- 1989: Medal of Honor from "Natur og Ungdom"
literature
- Inger Bentzon, Hanne Lillebo: Ord må en omvei. En biografi om Rolf Jacobsen . Aschehoug, Oslo 1998, ISBN 82-03-18059-0
- Horst Bien: Northern European literatures . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1980; Page 182
- Ole Karlsen (Ed.): Frøkorn av ild. Om Rolf Jacobsen's forfatterskap . Cappelen, Oslo 1993, ISBN 978-82-02-13865-3
- Hanne Lillebo: Rolf Jacobsen . In: Norsk biografisk leksikon, 2010
- Philip Houm: Rolf Jacobsen . In: Nordic literary history . Volume II. Fink, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7705-2105-6
- Thomas Seiler: Modernism . In: Jürg Glauser (Hrsg.): Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-01973-8
- Jacobsen, Rolf . In: Gero von Wilpert (ed.): Lexicon of world literature AK . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-59050-5
Web links
- Rolf Jacobsen in store norske leksikon
- Rolf Jacobsen ( Memento from January 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nordic literary history . Volume II. Fink, Munich 1984
- ↑ Hanne Lillibo: Rolf Jacobsen . In: Store norske leksikon
- ↑ Philip Houm. In: Nordic literary history . Volume II. Munich 1984
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacobsen, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian poet and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristiania |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1994 |
| Place of death | Hamar |