Tito Colliander

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Tito Colliander (1956)

Tito Colliander (born February 10, 1904 in Saint Petersburg , Russia , † May 21, 1989 in Helsinki , Finland ) was a Finnish-Swedish writer .

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Tito Colliander was born to Swedish-speaking parents. His father was a colonel in the Russian army. He spent his childhood alternately in Russia and Finland, which was a Russian Grand Duchy. Both parents were Protestant . In Petrograd he experienced the First World War and the revolution . The experiences of this time such as hunger, misery and cruelty were also formative for his literary work. In autumn 1918 he was able to escape to Finland, where he devoted himself to art studies in Helsinki. After studying and traveling for years in Paris and Algeria , he turned more and more to writing .

In 1930 he married the artist Ina Behrsen, the daughter of a Saint Petersburg family of German architects. In 1936 he and his wife moved to a Russian-speaking village in southeastern Estonia . There the Protestant couple converted to the Orthodox Church . During the Second World War , the family with their two daughters often had to move and finally found a safe haven in Sweden. In 1947 Tito and Ina's marriage fell into a serious crisis. Ina therefore went to the Valaam monastery for a month , which was then on the site of today's Uusi Valamo monastery . There she met the schema monk Johannes, who subsequently also became acquainted with Tito. According to Ina, the teachings and accompaniment of the monk John saved the marriage. In the late 1940s, Tito studied in a seminary and taught Orthodox religion at Swedish schools in Helsinki.

During this time he interrupted his fiction activity for about ten years . In 1952 he wrote Asketernas väg (Way of the Ascetics), in which he reproduces the teaching of the Eastern Church fathers. In 1958 he resumed his literary work. In 1959 Vi som är kvar appeared and he also devoted himself to his autobiography, which has appeared in seven volumes and is considered to be his most important work. In 1968 the Åbo Akademi awarded him a doctorate in theology honoris causa . In 1975 he received the Evangelical Church's Literature Prize. Tito's son Sergius is a priest of the Finnish Orthodox Church .

Honors

Works

  • En vandrare , 1930
  • Småstad , 1931
  • Huset, där det dracks , 1932
  • Bojorna , 1933
  • Glimtar från Tyskland , 1934
  • Taina , 1935
  • Ljuset , 1936
  • Korståget , 1937; German Der Versprengte , Stuttgart, Hohenstaufen-Verlag, 1939
  • Förbarma dig , 1939; German mercy , Bern, A. Francke, 1945
  • Dagen är , 1940
  • Ilya Repin , 1942
  • Grottan , 1942; German The Cave , Frankfurt a. M., Knecht, 1960
  • Duncker, en av de tappras skara , 1943
  • The femte of July , 1943
  • Två timmar and andra noveller , 1944
  • Bliv till , 1945
  • Träsnittet , 1946
  • Sallinen , 1948
  • I åratal , 1949
  • Grekisk-ortodox tro och livssyn , 1951
  • Asketernas väg , 1952; German Way of the Ascetics , 2005
  • Farled 1936-1953 , 1954
  • Fönster , 1956; German window , Frankfurt a. M., Knecht, 1961
  • Samtal med smärtan , 1956
  • Glädjens möte , 1957
  • Nu och alltid , 1958
  • Vi som är kvar , 1959
  • Med öppna hand , 1960
  • På en trappa , 1961
  • Bevarat , 1964
  • Gripen , 1965
  • Kortfattad ortodox troslara , 1966
  • Vidare , 1967
  • Givet , 1968
  • Vaka , 1969
  • Nära , 1971
  • Måltid , 1973
  • Motif , 1977
  • Början , 1979
  • Blick , 1981
  • Sju sagor , 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tito Colliander: Way of the ascetics. Translated into German by Johannes A. Wolf . Johannes A. Wolf, Apelern 2005, ISBN 3-937912-03-7 , p. 84-87 .

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personal data
SURNAME Colliander, Tito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish Swedish-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1989
Place of death Helsinki