Rudolf Nilsen

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Rudolf Nilsen (born February 28, 1901 in Kristiania, today Oslo , † April 23, 1929 in Paris ) was a Norwegian poet of the labor movement . His poems are often shaped by class struggle , but he also wrote romantic and apolitical poems about Oslo and its residents. Sometimes he published under the pseudonym Rulle .

Life

Nilsen was the son of a metalworker and grew up in a working-class district in east Oslo. At times he lived with his grandfather, who came from the country and had a strong influence on him. Nils Collett Vogt , Arnulf Øverland , Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen and Henry Lawson were among Nilsen's literary models .

Even in his school days, Nilsen published poems in which he sided with the Russian Revolution . In 1920 he completed his school education with the Abitur . He then gave lectures and worked as a journalist for left-wing magazines. He also took part in illegal aid operations for the Soviet Union and was therefore arrested in 1921.

In 1923 he was one of the founders of the Norwegian Communist Party . Many of his poems have since appeared in the party newspaper Norges Komunistblad , for which he also worked as a journalist until 1926. Nilsen's first book publication was På Stenngrunn , a collection of 23 poems that appeared in 1925 and had to be financed through advertising. As in his later publications, Nilsen addresses the life of ordinary people, especially in the slums of Oslo, and the class struggle . Further collections of poetry appeared after his death in 1926 and 1929. Poems No. 13 and Revolutionens Røst , published in På gjensyn in 1926, are considered two of the best Norwegian poems .

Nilsen was married to actress Ella Signe Quist Kristoffersen (later Ella Hval ) from 1924 until his death . He died of tuberculosis on his return from a trip to Spain .

In 1974 and 2001, selected volumes appeared with prose articles and poems that had previously only been published in magazines.

Works

Rudolf Nilsen's tombstone
  • På stengrunn (1925, Ny Tid)
  • På gjensyn (1926, Ny Tid)
  • Hverdagen (1929, posthumously, Gyldendal)
  • Samlede dikt (1935, 2nd edition 1946 with a foreword by Arnulf Øverland )
  • Hilsen og håndslag (1974, posthumously, Gyldendal)
  • Rulle forteller: Rudolf Nilsen's prosa i utvalg (1974)
  • Hundreårsutgaven - Samlede and published dict (2001)

literature

  • Johan Faltin Bjørnsen: Rudolf Nilsen. Mennesket og dikteren, hans livsverk og livshistorie . Gyldendal, Oslo 1951.
  • Martin Nag: Rudolf Nilsen - norsk work class geni - og yndling. En biografisk collagebok (1974-2004) . Falken, Oslo 2004. ISBN 82-7009-301-7
  • Rudolf Nilsen and Nordahl Grieg: Ruf from Norway , translated by Horst Bien and Helmut Stelzig. Hinstorff, Rostock 1960.
  • Horst Bien: Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literatures , Leipzig 1978.

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personal data
SURNAME Nilsen, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rule (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian labor movement poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1929
Place of death Paris