Torborg Nedreaas

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Torborg (Aud) Nedreaas (born November 13, 1906 in Bergen , † June 30, 1987 in Nesodden ) was a Norwegian writer . She is best known as a prose writer . In addition, she also wrote a play as well as scripts and radio plays . In her works she deals with class differences, the fate of women, poverty and war, among other things. She also published under the pseudonym Tob Kieding .

Life

Nedreaas' parents were the businessman Torleif Nedreaas and his wife Augusta Herschel . After her parents divorced in 1917, she grew up with her mother, who married businessman Jonas Lund in 1918 . Nedreaas sometimes attended a school in Copenhagen . Nedreaas was musically gifted and graduated as a classical pianist from the Bergen Conservatory in 1926 and then lived in Paris for some time before returning to Bergen. There she taught music and took drawing lessons. In 1930 she married Johan Nicolai Kieding and settled in Fana . The couple had two sons.

Their marriage ended in divorce in 1939 and World War II broke out. Nedreaas, who was of Jewish descent on her mother's side, therefore left Bergen and moved to Leirvik . The place, which she often visited as a child, is the setting for many of her works. There she lived in poverty as a fisherwoman and began to write stories for magazines under the pseudonym Tob Kieding in order to supplement her income . She also wrote the drama Magdalene , which premiered in 1941 at the Den Nationale Scene theater. She did not publish her first book Før det ringer tredje gang until 1945. The collection of short stories contained works that had previously appeared in magazines. In the same year, Bak skapet står øksen, a second collection of short stories, appeared.

In 1946 she joined the communist party . Her second husband, Aksel Bull Njå , whom she married the following year, was also a member of this party. The family moved to Nesodden near Oslo in 1947 , where Nedreaas has lived as a freelance writer ever since. Her first novel Av måneskin bror det ingen ting was published that same year. It was in 1987 into English and in 1972 under the title In the moonlight, the Nothing grows into German translated and in 1987 directed by Arild Brinchmann filmed.

In 1950 she published Trylleglasset , her third collection of short stories. In it she introduced the person of Herdis Hauge , a young, musically gifted girl. The character was later taken up in other short stories as well as in two novels. A special feature of these novels is that each chapter can stand on its own as a short story. For Trylleglasset , Nedreaas was awarded the Critic's Prize in 1950.

In addition to book publications, Nedreaas also worked for television. Her television play Skomakeren og hans lest was also shown on GDR television under the title Nordic Gambit .

Nedreaas is considered an outstanding prose writer . It was influenced by the literature of Honoré de Balzac , Alexander Lange Kielland and Maxim Gorkis, among others .

Works

  • Før det ringer tredje gang (1945)
  • Bak skapet står øksen (1945) - eng . Behind the cupboard is the ax (1990)
  • Av måneskinn gror det ingenting (1947) - Ger . Nothing grows in the moonlight (1972)
  • Trylleglasset (1950)
  • De varme hendene (1952)
  • Stoppested (1953)
  • Musikk fra en blå brønn (1960) - German music from a blue fountain (1964)
  • Skomakeren og hans lest (1964) - TV play, German Nordic Gambit (1968)
  • Den siste polka (1965)
  • Stoppested (1965) - screenplay
  • Ytringer i det blå (1967)
  • Ved neste nymåne (1971)
  • Det dumme hjierter (1976) - radio plays
  • Vintervår (1982)
  • Gjennom et prisme (1983)
  • En hage under snøen (1985) - screenplay
  • Noveller - og noen essays (1995)

Awards

literature

  • Lanae H. Isaacson: Torborg Nedreaas in Tanya Thresher (Ed.): Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 297: Twentieth-Century Norwegian Writers . Gale, Detroit, et al. 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Horst Bien: Nedreaas, Torborg Aud in ders. (Ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Nordeurop # ische Literaturen , Leipzig 1978
  2. ↑ a b Torborg Nedreaas 1906-1987 . Bergenbibliotek.no
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Isaacson, p. 259
  4. ↑ a b c Janet Rasmussen: Nedreaas, Torborg in Virpi Zuck (ed.): Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature . Greenwood, Westport 1990, pp. 431f
  5. ^ Isaacson, p. 260
  6. ↑ a b Isaacson, p. 261
  7. ↑ a b c d Øystein Rottem: Torborg Nedreaas in the Store Norske Lexikon
personal data
SURNAME Nedreaas, Torborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nedreaas, Torborg Aud (full name); Kieding, Tob (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen (Norway) , Norway
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1987
Place of death Nesodden , Norway