Sigrið av Skardi Joensen

Sigrið av Skarði Joensen (born May 12, 1908 in Fagralíð, Klaksvík , Faroe Islands ; † July 3, 1975 in Tórshavn ) was a Faroese publicist , teacher and feminist .

Sigrið was born in 1908 as the daughter of Súsanna Kathrina Jacobsen (1876–1978) and Símun av Skarði (1872–1942), who were both teachers at the Faroe Islands folk high school , which was then at the Fagralíð at Klaksvík. In 1909 the adult education center moved to Tórshavn .

After graduating from high school in Denmark in 1927, Sigrið av Skarði studied history and English at the University of Copenhagen , but without finishing his studies. In 1941, however, she became a teacher in these subjects.

In 1938 she married Sigurð Joensen (1911-1993), with whom she had seven children Elspa (1939), Lív (1942), Búgvi (1945), Turið (1946), Sjúrður (1947), Bergljót (1950) and Inga Rósa (1953) had. The daughter of Lív is the Faroese actress and poet Sigri Mitra Gaïni, born in 1975 . Bergljót's daughter, Sólrun Løkke Rasmussen, was born in 1968 and is the wife of Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen .

She got involved in the journalistic field from an early age. In 1929 she published an article in the newspaper Føryoa Socialdemokratur about the two anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti , who were executed in the USA in 1927. In 1938 she interfered with a polemic in the Faroese language dispute , which was resolved a short time later in favor of the Faroese language as the language of instruction.

Like many of her contemporaries, she was in Copenhagen during Operation Weser Exercise , when the Faroe Islands were cut off from the “motherland” in World War II and the young elite of the country spent a large part in involuntary exile . Together with her husband, she became involved in Føroyingafelag , the Faroese Association in Copenhagen, and the Faroese student association. From 1941 to 1946 she edited the fortnightly newspaper Búgvin in Faroese , for which she wrote historical and contemporary articles. In addition, she worked as a translator, for example from Sigert Patursson's Siberia trip in 1901, the first description of Siberia by a Faroese.

In 1948 the family moved to the Faroe Islands, and Sigrið av Skarði Joensen continued her journalistic activities there at Ungu Føroyar ("the young Faroe Islands"). In 1952 she was co-founder of Kvinnufelagið , the Faroese women's association, which should continue the feminist cause of Súsanna Helena Patursson . Until 1959 she was the editor of the associated magazine Kvinnutíðindi ("Women's News ").

In the 1950s, Sigrið av Skarði Joensen arranged courses for women of the same age in Faroese literature and language. She taught Latin at the Tórshavner Realschule , and in 1952, on her initiative, a school for Faroese chain dance was opened, from which the best audiences in the country emerged.

Like her husband, she was a member of the Republican Tjóðveldisflokkurin and ran for both the Tórshavn City Council and the Løgting . She did not manage to move in, but she was in the city's youth welfare office for several years.

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Translations

• Sigert Patursson : Á ferð í Sibiriu , 1994 (Siberia trip 1901, from Danish into Faroese, edited by Turið Sigurðardóttir )

Editions

• Henrik Ibsen : Hærmændene på Helgeland , 1949 (drama from 1858, Faroese translation by Símun av Skarði)

Web links

• Kvinfo.dk - Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (in Danish)