Tom Kristensen (Author, 1893)

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Aage Tom Kristensen (born August 4, 1893 in London , United Kingdom , † June 2, 1974 on Thurø , Svendborg , Denmark ) was a Danish author and literary critic .

biography

Tom Kristensen was born in London and grew up in inner Copenhagen . His childhood is in the autobiographical novel open-hearted concealment ( Aabenhjertige Fortielser , 1966) described. He lived on Thurø from 1946 until his death. He is best known for his novels novel a devastation ( Hærværk , 1930), which was filmed at the 1977 and arabesque of Life ( Livets Arabesk , 1921) and for the collection of poems buccaneer dreams ( Fribytterdrømme , 1920). Novel of Desolation was received as a key novel - or, as he himself put it, "as a whole bunch of keys". It was during a visit to Harald Bergstedt that he was advised to write a novel about his drinking life in Copenhagen. Kristensen's novels, poems and stories were partly subject to the literary tendency of Expressionism . His work was significantly influenced by Johannes V. Jensen , James Joyce , DH Lawrence , Ernest Hemingway and Sigmund Freud . Again he was a role model for the writers Klaus Rifbjerg , Thomas Boberg and Jakob Ejersbo .

Tom Kristensen was on a study trip to Asia in 1922 , which he a. a. led to the Republic of China and the Japanese Empire . Parts of his poems, which deal with the trip to China , are set to music to blues music by Peter Thorup on the album Reise nach China from 1978 (later also CD).

Tom Kristensen lived for long periods of his writing life as a literary critic for the Danish daily Politiken and provided some of the most beautiful poems of his career in the form of occasional poems as obituaries. For example, It is Knut who is dead ( Det er Knud, som er død ) on the occasion of the death of the polar explorer Knud Rasmussen in 1933. His famous novel Novel Desolation takes place in the journalistic world of Copenhagen .

From 1960 onwards, Tom Kristensen was a member of the foundation of the newly founded Danish Academy and received its Grand Prize in 1968 .

Tom Kristensen was best known for his poems and novels. But he also published a large number of short stories. Several of them are in the collection of novels The Windrose ( Vindrosen ), which u. a. the well-known expressionist novella Das Unglück ( Ulykken ) contains. In 1997, Gesammelte Gedichte ( Samlede Digte ) was published by the Danish publisher Gyldendal . The book contains the poems of his nine poetry collections. Well-known poems are: Freibeuter ( Friybytter ) and Vestergade (1924).

Prizes and awards (selection)

literature

  • Thorkild Borup Jensen, Tom Kristensen - portræt af forfatteren og forfatterskabet , Dansklærerforeningen, 2007. ISBN 978-87-7996-296-5 .
  • Jens Andersen, Dansende stjerne: en bog om Tom Kristensen , Gyldendal, 1995. ISBN 87-00-21708-5 .
  • Niels Egebak, Tom Kristensen , Munksgaard, 1971. ISBN 87-16-00393-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hærværk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. http://confidentialattachees.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/a-literary-year-tom-kristensens-havoc/
  3. http://kum.dk/Temaer/Temaarkiv/Kulturkanon/