Tom Buk-Swienty

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Tom Buk-Swienty

Tom Buk-Swienty (born July 19, 1966 in Eutin ) is a Danish historian , journalist and writer who was awarded the Søren Gyldendal Prize in 2010 .

Life

After attending school, Buk-Swienty studied history with a focus on the history of the United States and graduated with a master's degree . He then became a correspondent for the Weekendavisen newspaper in the USA and a lecturer at the University of Southern Denmark .

In 1999 he made his writing debut with Amerika Maxima (1999), a travelogue about a road trip he made during his stay in the USA . In 2005 the book Den ideelle Amerika was published about the American photographer and writer Jacob August Riis from Denmark .

For his 2008 published book Slagtebænk Dybbøl (dt .: slaughter chaff ) over battle of Dybbøl on April 18, 1864, he received the 2009 Årets Faglitterære Pris for the best historical reference book . The book served as a template for the eight-part television series 1864 on the Danish broadcaster DR1 , which premiered on October 12, 2014. A movie is also planned. In 2010 Dommedag Als followed on the defeat in the battle for the northern Schleswig island of Alsen on June 29, 1864 and the later bitter peace settlement for Denmark after the German-Danish War . Both books became bestsellers because of their exciting presentation as well as the reinterpretation of this epoch from the history of Denmark . In 2010 he was awarded the Søren Gyldendal Prize for these books.

In August 2010 it was announced that Buk-Swienty in the private correspondence of King Christian IX. He discovered letters to the Prussian King Wilhelm I , in which the Danish king expressed the wish that Denmark should be admitted to the German Confederation . So Christian IX hoped. after the defeat in the German-Danish War to be able to preserve the unity of the kingdom including the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. However, Wilhelm's Chancellor Otto von Bismarck refused, probably in order not to create yet another source of conflict and not to worry France.

Publications

in German language
  • Slaughterhouse Düppel, April 18, 1864. The story of a battle. Osburg, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940731-72-2 . Review by Erich Maletzke in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitung and Martin Rackwitz in the historiographical review journal Sehepunkte.
  • Fire and blood. Captain Dinesen. Osburg, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95510-058-2 .
in Danish

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Raagaard: Danish author exposes historical "betrayal". In: Hamburger Abendblatt . August 19, 2010. For Bismarck's attitude towards Denmark, see also his private correspondence until 1866 with his Göttingen corps brother , the Danish Foreign Minister in the Rotwitt cabinet and Minister for Schleswig Carl Frederik von Blixen-Finecke at Aage Friis (ed.): Blixen Finecke og Bismarck; en brevveksling. Graebes Bogtrykkeri, København 1916.
  2. ↑ https://www.shz.de/deutschland-welt/kultur/die-schlachtbank-dueppel-id104644.html shz de of January 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ Martin Rackwitz: Review of: Tom Buk-Swienty: Schlachtbank Düppel. April 18, 1864. History of a battle. Translated by Ulrich Sonnenberg, Berlin: Osburg Verlag 2011, in: sehepunkte 12 (2012), No. 5 [15.05.2012], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de /2012/05/20988.html
personal data
SURNAME Buk-Swienty, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish historian, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin