Sigurd Christiansen

Two living and one dead , Piper-Verlag, Munich, 1932

Sigurd Wesley Christiansen (born November 17, 1891 in Drammen , † October 23, 1947 ibid) was a Norwegian writer who wrote novels and dramas .

Life

Christiansen was the son of the craftsman and sexton Andreas Christiansen and his wife Maren Kirstine Sæthre. He worked as a postal worker in his hometown of Drammen, which, along with Oslo, is also one of the most important settings for his novels. On November 12, 1916, he married Magdalena Johanne Melaaen.

Christiansen had already worked as a writer as a teenager. From 1907 he published poems in magazines. His first novel, Seieren , was published in 1915 and has been compared to the works of Dostoevsky . In his works, Christiansen mainly deals with the psychology of his main characters, the actual plot plays a subordinate role.

Christiansen's greatest success was the novel To levende og en død , with which he won a competition in 1931. The novel was then translated into several languages, including German ( Zwei Lebende und ein Toter ), and later filmed several times.

In 1940 Christiansen was awarded the Gyldendals legat literature prize.

Works

Novels

• Seieren (1915)
• Thomas Hergel (1917)
• Indgangen (1925)
• Sverdene (1927)
• Riket (1929)
• To levende og en død (1931). German: Two living and one dead . Piper. Munich. 1932
• Drømmen og livet (1935)
• Det ensomme hjerte (1937)
• Menneskenes lodd (1945)

Dramas

• Edmund Year (1926)
• En Reise i natten (1931)
• Alexander Paulovitsj (1947)

literature

• Horst Bien (Ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literatures , Leipzig 1978
• Theodore Jorgenson: History of Norwegian Literature , New York 1939

Web links

• Hans H. Skei: Sigurd Wesley Christiansen , biography from the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
• Roar Sønbø Kristiansen: Sigurd Christiansen , biography from the Norske biografisk leksikon (Norwegian)