Days of Skou-Hansen

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Tage Skou-Hansen (born February 12, 1925 in Fredericia ; † November 11, 2015 ) was a Danish journalist and writer who was awarded both the Critics ' Prize and the Søren Gyldendal Prize . Over a period of more than forty years he wrote the seven-volume series of novels about the first-person narrator Holger Mikkelsen .

Life

Skou-Hansen, son of a bank director , grew up in West Jutland and later in Kolding . After graduating from Marselisborg Gymnasium, he studied literary history and comparative literature at Aarhus University . Afterwards he was initially editor of the literary magazine Heretica , which gave its name to the first phase of Danish modernism , and dealt with aestheticism and ethics in poetry and prose as a literary critic . He called for a broader consideration of reality. He then served from 1958 to 1967 teacher at the Adult Education Center in Askov .

He made his literary debut in 1957 with De nøgne træer , a novel about sabotage of the Danish resistance movement during the German occupation, which was made into a film in 1991 . In addition to the contemporary story, the novel also revolved around the life and loves of the first-person narrator Holger Mikkelsen. The subsequent Holger Mikkelsen novels Dagstjernen (1962) and På den anden side (1965) also dealt with the issues of guilt and responsibility. This series included the novella Tredje halvleg (1971) and the novels Medløberen (1973) and Den hårde frugt (1977), for which he received the Critics' Prizes in 1977 and the Søren Gyldendal Prize in 1979. The series of novels around Holger Mikkelsen continued with the books Over stregen (1980), På sidelinjen (1996) and finally Frit løb (2000). In the seven-volume Holger Mikkelsen series, which began in 1957, he succeeded in alternating plot, dialogue and essayistic presentation to create a comprehensive portrait of a liberal but cautious man and his life, especially in relation to his lover Gerda and her own problems.

In many of his works he processed his own experiences such as his experiences during the Second World War , which he combined with his later knowledge. He related his own primary experiences to the thoughts about existence and ethics of others like Martin A. Hansen and KE Løgstrup as well as his involvement in politics and society. This led to the writing of collections of essays such as Det midlertidige fællesskab (1969) and Den forbandede utopi (1995), in which he took a critical look at the relationships between the individual and other individuals from a social and political point of view. This analytical perspective led him to design a novel that placed the narrator's emphasis on personal reflections from the past, but which he always combined with a realistic description of the situation and reflective symbolism .

Skou-Hansen, who became a member of the Danish Academy in 1982, wrote another series of novels entitled Det Runde bord , which included the individual volumes Springet (1986), Krukken og stenen (1987), Det andet slag (1989) and Sidste sommer (1991 ) belong. It was about a group of people who all consider their relationship with the poet Axel, who died after joining the German armed forces . Through the characters, Skou-Hansen reflects the tension between life chances and life decisions, whereby he also includes social history and an “everyday metaphysics ”.

Awards

Publications (German)

  • Passions , novel (original title De nøgne traeer , translated by Udo Birkholz), Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1964, DNB 454732635 .
  • Über den Strich , Roman (original title Over stregen , translated by Ruth Schöbling), Volk und Welt Verlag, Berlin 1984, DNB 850305942 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forfatter days Skou-Hansen er død. Danmarks Radio, November 11, 2015 (Danish).

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personal data
SURNAME Skou-Hansen, days
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Fredericia , Syddanmark , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2015