Thomas Bredsdorff

Thomas Bredsdorff (* 1. April 1937 in Silkeborg ) is a Danish journalist , literary historian , literary critic and university professor , who both Søren Gyldendal Prize and twice the Georg Brandes Prize was awarded and in particular with the time of the Enlightenment deals .

Life

After attending school, Bredsdorf studied English and Danish and graduated in 1965 with a master's degree . He then became editor for literature and theater for the daily Politiken . In 1967 he published Sære fortællere. Hovedtræk af ny dansk prosa and thus proved his talent for a stringent pedagogical presentation of literary topics and work analyzes of contemporary Danish literature .

In the following years he wrote numerous specialist books on older and contemporary Scandinavian and Old English literature such as the study Kaos og kærlighed (1971) and on the Age of Enlightenment. In 1976 he completed his doctorate in philosophy with Digternes natur , a dissertation on 17th century Danish poetry .

In 1978 Bredsdorff accepted a professorship for Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen and taught there until his retirement in 2004. In the following years he wrote other studies on literary history such as Tristans børn. Angående digtning om kærlighed og ægteskab i den borgerlige epoke (1982), for which he was awarded the Georg Brandes Prize in 1982 and the Søren Gyldendal Prize in 1984.

This was followed by important monographs such as De sorte huller. Om tilblivelsen af ​​et sprog i PO Enquists forfatterskab (1991) on the Swedish writer Per Olov Enquist and Med andre ord (1996) on language with the poet Henrik Nordbrandt . In 1999 the Society for Beautiful and Useful Science awarded him their sponsorship award “for his remarkable linguistic and literary achievements”.

In 2003 he published with the brogede oplysning another book on Nordic literature of the 17th century , where he this time mainly with the "common sense" and the " reason employed" of that era. For this work he was the first and so far only author to receive the honorary award of the Georg Brandes Prize and thus for the second time this literary prize.

In 2015 Bredsdorff received the Nordic Prize from the Swedish Academy .

Fonts

Bredsdorff's other publications include:

• Magtspil: Europæiske familiestykker: samtalen i teatret - samtale med teatret , 1986, ISBN 978-87-01-51074-5
• Den bratte forvandling: Om digteren Sylvia Plath , 1987, ISBN 978-87-12-01618-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Bredsdorff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Bredsdorff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography (Den Store Danske)
• Author portrait (politiken.dk)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sentura. Magazine for literature and relevant billing : Carriers of which hjerne til oplysning og their mouth to tolerance? (October 31, 2004)