Sigfrid Siwertz

Sigfrid Siwertz

Per Sigfrid Siwertz (born January 24, 1882 in Stockholm ; † November 26, 1970 there ) was a Swedish writer.

Life

Sigfrid Siwertz studied in Uppsala and Paris , traveled extensively and was accepted into the Swedish Academy in 1932 . He was married to the journalist Margit Siwertz, b. Strömberg (1900-1971).

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Siwertz 'extensive work includes all literary genres. Above all, it shaped the development of the modern Swedish novel . The first publications were still in the pessimistic climate of the fin de siècle . But under the influence of the ideas of the French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Siwertz gained intentional life affirmation in his work: Intensive observation, exact descriptions of the milieu and socially critical issues came to the fore. The author became known in 1911 with his youth book The Mälarpiraten . The Seelambs followed in 1920 . In this Stockholm family saga, Siwertz described the ventures of war profiteers during the First World War .

Publications (selection)

• 1911: Mälar pirate . Novel. (New editions: Verlag Bonnier, Stockholm 1939; Höganäs 1983).
  • German edition: The Mälarpiraten . People's Association of Book Friends , Berlin 1927
• 1913: The ancients . Novellas. Translation ad Swedish. by Marie Franzos. Merseburger Verlag, Leipzig 1913, 332 pp.
• 1925: Seelambs, the money hunters . Novel. From the Swed. by Josef Sandmeier & S. Angermann. Quitzow publishing house, Lübeck 1925,
  • New German Edition: Seelambs, the money hunters . From the Swed. by Udo Birckholz. 1st edition. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1976, 454 pp.
• The big department store . Lübeck 1928
• 1930: Sam, Beth and the car . People and fates from contemporary life. From the Swed. by Nils Hoyer. Verlag Schünemann, Bremen 1930, 206 pp.
• 1930: The lifeboat . (For the visitors of the adult education center and the Sunday reading hours in the city library). Adult Education Center, Stettin 1930, 54 pp.
• 1932: Lagan . Novel. 3. Edition. Verlag Bonnier, Stockholm 1932, 309 pp.
• 1938: Spel pa havet . Bonnier Publishing House, Stockholm 1938.
• 1942: Brutus . Bonnier Verlag, Stockholm 1942.
• 1961: Det skedde i Liechtenstein . Novel. Bonnier Verlag, Stockholm 1961.
• 1961: Adolf Törneros . Försök till ett portraits. Norstedt Verlag, Stockholm 1961, 198 pp.
• 1967: Winston S. Churchill : My Early Years . Nobel Prize 1953 Winston S. Churchill. Translation by Dagobert von Mikusch, translation of the accompanying texts by Hans Roesch. Coron - Verlag, Zurich 1967, 404 p. (Contains among others: Sigfrid Siwertz: The award speech given on the occasion of the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Winston S. Churchill on December 10, 1953)

Web links

• Literature by and about Sigfrid Siwertz in the catalog of the German National Library