Stig Dagerman

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Stig Dagerman

Stig Halvard Dagerman (born October 5, 1923 in Älvkarleby , † November 4, 1954 in Enebyberg near Stockholm ) was a Swedish journalist and writer .

Life

Stig Dagerman, son of a demolisher and a telephone operator, grew up with his paternal grandparents. His mother left him right after he was born. The father cared little about him. Everyday farming life on Norrgärdet , a barren, poor farm on the sandy banks of the Dalälven , shaped his childhood. He later described this phase of life as happy but not carefree: "Interest was one of the first words I learned, and I know that if a house is in debt to over the roof beams, then it's not just a phrase." Also deep marks The experiences as a teenager left behind in his works. Above everything lay the shadow of an "insane act": his grandfather was stabbed to death in 1940 by a psychopath. Dagerman felt abandoned. At the grammar school in Stockholm his classmates ridiculed him as a clumsy farm boy. He delivered newspapers on the weekends. A school literature competition should cheer him up: Dagerman won a week-long stay in the mountains. But the trip ended tragically when a friend and roommate died in an avalanche accident.

At the end of school, Dagerman realized his calling to work as a writer and journalist. In Stockholm he joined the syndicalist union Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation (SAC) and wrote columns , reports and articles for their weekly Arbetaren until his death . In the literary field he made his debut at the age of 22. In Die Schlange , Dagerman describes the horror of the inferno of a world torn apart by war and barbarism and his depressing experiences during his military service. In late autumn 1946, Dagerman made a trip to war-torn Germany on behalf of the newspaper " Expressen ". He reported on this trip in twelve newspaper articles and they appeared collectively in May 1947. The book was discussed extensively after its publication, for the most part very positively. In the magazine “Veckojournal” Stig Ahlgren said that the book was “a high point in Swedish reportage in the visual parts”. In 2009, director Michael Gaumnitz shot based on the travel reports 1946, Autumn in Germany .

The Swede became known beyond the borders of his homeland and threw himself into his most productive creative period. Until 1947 he wrote several short stories and novels . He is said to have typed the last sections of The Island of the Damned , printed about 60 pages, in one go in a fourteen-hour session.

Years of personal crisis followed. His financial affairs slipped away from him. Writer's block was added: “I have no philosophy in which I could move like the bird in the air and the fish in the water. All I have is a duel, and in every moment of my life this duel rages between the false consolations that only increase my impotence and deepen my despair, and these real consolations that lead me to a fleeting liberation, ”he wrote about at the time themselves. Dagerman began a series of suicide attempts that came to an end on November 4, 1954 when he choked himself in his car garage. Her marriage to actress Anita Björk in 1953 had already failed by then. A daughter emerged from the relationship.

Stig Dagerman's biography and his works form a motif in Siegfried Lenz 's novel Die Klangprobe . The Stig Dagermansällskap keeps the memory of the writer in his place of birth . She has awarded the Stig Dagerman Prize annually since 1996 . So far his recipients have included a. Elfriede Jelinek , Lukas Moodysson and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio .

Works

  • “Killing a Child”, in: Games of the Night. Narratives . dtv, Munich 1964
  • Ormen , 1945 (German: Die Schlange )
  • De dömdas ö . 1946
  • Tysk hear. Resereportage från Tyskland 1946 , 1947, frequent new editions. in Scandinavia. Languages ​​until today
    • Übers. Günter Barudio: German autumn. Travel reports from Germany 1946 . Barudio and Hess, Frankfurt 1979
    • Übers. Jörg Scherzer: German autumn. Travel directions. Library Suhrkamp , 924. Frankfurt 1987
  • Europe in ruins. Essays (also as: Europe in ruins. Eyewitness reports from the years 1944 - 1948 ). Ed. Hans-Magnus Enzensberger. The other library , 65. Eichborn, Frankfurt 1993, etc.
  • Nattens lekar , Stories, Stockholm 1947
  • Dramer om dömda , play, 1947
  • Att döda ett barn story, 1948
  • Skuggan av Mart , play, 1948
  • Streber , play, 1948
  • Ett barns memoarer , short story, 1948
  • Överraskningen , short story, 1948
  • Bränt barn , 1948 (German 1983: burned child , novel)
  • Ingen går fri , play, 1949
  • Bröllopsbesvär . 1949
    • Übers. Herbert G. Hegedo: Swedish wedding night . Novel. The Other Library, 304. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2010 ISBN 978-382186230-9
  • Den ytttersta dagen , play, 1952
  • Dagsedlar , poems, 1954

radio play

  • Our short summer. Translated from the Swedish by Verena Reichel . Production: SDR / NDR 1970.

Filmography

Literary template
  • 1953 and 2003: Killing a Child ( Att döda ett barn )
  • 1964: The Swedish Wedding Night ( Bröllopsbesvär )
  • 1967: I - his lover ( Bränt barn )
  • 2008: Games of the Night ( Nattens lekar )
Screenplay adaptation
  • 1965: The Snake ( Ormen )
Biographical documentation
  • 2011: Our desire for consolation is insatiable ( Vårt behov av consoles är omättligt )

literature

  • Olof Lagercrantz : Stig Dagerman. Stockholm 1958, renewed in 1967
  • Agneta Pleijel: Djuret och skräcken. En study i Stig Dagermans författerskap. In: Samalaren , 86, 1965, pp. 96-114.
  • Arma Sastamoinen (Ed.): Stig Dagerman och syndikalismen. Stockholm 1974.
  • Hans Sandberg: Stig Dagerman - författare och journalist. Stockholm 1975.
  • Hans Sandberg: The political Stig Dagerman. Tre study. Stockholm 1979.
  • Laurie Thompson: Stig Dagerman and Politics. In: Scandinavica 1/1980, pages 39–55.
  • Georges Perilleux: Stig Dagerman et l'existentialisme. Paris 1982.
  • Laurie Thompson: Stig Dagerman. Boston 1983.
  • Kerstin Laitinen: Begärets irrvägar. Existential theme i Stig Dagermans texter. Umeå 1986.
  • Gösta Werner: De grymma skuggorna: en study i Stig Dagermans författarskap och des relationer till filmen som medium. Stockholm 1986.
  • Georges Perilleux: Stig Dagerman: le mythe et l'œuvre. Paris 1993.
  • Björn Ranelid: Mitt namn skall vara Stig Dagerman. Novel. Publishing house Bonnier Alba 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stig Dagerman: Memoirs of a Child. In: Ders .: The man who didn't want to cry. Leipzig 1988, p. 145.
  2. ^ Günter Gentsch: Epilogue, in: Stig Dagerman: The man who did not want to cry. Leipzig 1988, p. 154.
  3. ↑ a b Cf. Hans Sundberg, Commentary on p. 123 in the edition: Stig Dagerman: Tysk Höst - Reseskildring with commentary on Hans Sundberg. Norstedts, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-1-952312-2 .
  4. ↑ 1946, Herbst in Deutschland (2009). In: Online film database (OFDb). October 22, 2009. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  5. ^ Beat Mazenauer: Stig Dagerman (1923–1954): The inconsolable seeker of happiness. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Marc Lippuner: The cold of midsummer night. In: Neon.de. November 3, 2004, accessed August 19, 2019.
  7. ↑ Scherzer's life data: 1945 - 2019
  8. ↑ Our short summer. In: Deutschlandfunk.de. July 25, 2017 (date of retransmission), accessed July 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Dagerman, Stig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dagerman, Stig Halvard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Älvkarleby
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1954
Place of death Enebyberg near Stockholm