Tove Ditlevsen

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Tove Ditlevsen (born December 14, 1917 in Copenhagen ; † March 7, 1976 there ) was a Danish writer.

life and work

Tove Ditlevsen came from the Copenhagen working class in the Vesterbro district , left school at fourteen and her parents' home at seventeen; she became a maid and clerk. During this time she was already writing poetry . In her first marriage in 1939 she married a literary magazine editor 30 years her senior, and in the same year made her debut with the poetry collection Pigesind (girl's sense) . She later married three more times. In her autobiographical novels she described her life: the youth in the working class, the breakdown of their marriages and their crises (abortions, addiction, withdrawal, depressive psychosis and thoughts of suicide). She ended “her difficult life with a suicide, which she describes at the end of the last volume of her autobiographical work, with which the unity of life and work was accomplished with the greatest possible consistency”.

Ditlevsen often worked on the emotional conflicts of her childhood and youth. In Street and Childhood (1943), “a novel that has already become classic in Denmark”, she describes the milieu of her working-class neighborhood. In her best-known novel Faces (1968), she describes with terrifying intensity a psychosis based on her own experience . The Danish title Gift (1971; German: Sucht ) is ambiguous, it means both “married” and “poison”; the work is about their first three relatively short marriages. Ditlevsen also worked as a "mailbox aunt" for a Danish magazine. She received several awards; in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, the "Tove Ditlevsen Plads" was named after her. The Norwegian songwriter Kari Bremnes produced her first CD in 1987 with settings of Ditlevsen's poems.

Quote

“ Tove Ditlevsen's identity is shaped by a lack of security, loneliness, being different, fear and flight from reality to a longing for death. Her survival strategy - since childhood - has been writing. But it's not just personal therapy. Writing about her life makes Tove Ditlevsen a public person, and through her relentless self-surrender she takes a step towards the politicization of the private. And so their popularity is probably explained not least by the women and time-typical aspects of their extreme experiences: from the difficult mother-daughter relationship to the dual role of housewife, mother and writer, from the experience of alienation to the futile hunt for security in marriage . "

- Annegret Heitmann

Publications

Original editions

  • 1941: Man gjorde et barn fortræd (novel)
  • 1943: Barndommens gade (novel)
  • 1947: Blinkende Lygter (poems)
  • 1948: Dommeren (novellas)
  • 1952: Nattens dronning (novella)
  • 1960: To som elsker hinanden (novel)
  • 1963: Den onde lykke (short stories)
  • 1967: Barndom (memories)
  • 1967: Ungdom (memories)
  • 1971: Poison (Memories)
  • 1973: Parenteser (essays)
  • 1975: Vilhelms værelse (novel)

German-language editions

  • Childhood street . Translated from the Danish by Bernhard Jolles. Book guild Gutenberg , Frankfurt / M. 1962
  • When Anneliese was thirteen . From the Danish by Elsbeth Schneidler. Buoy, Stuttgart 1965
  • Addiction. Memories . From the Danish by Erna Plett. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1980, ISBN 3-518-11009-8
  • Wilhelm's room . From the Danish by Else Kjaer and Bärbel Cosmann. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1981, ISBN 3-518-11076-4
  • Faces . From the Danish by Else Kjaer. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1987, ISBN 3-518-11165-5

Awards

literature

  • Jens Andersen: Til døden os skiller. Et portræt af Tove Ditlevsen . Gyldendal , Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 978-87-00-31094-0
  • Joachim Trinkwitz: Tove Ditlevsen . In: The Classics of Scandinavian Literature . Econ, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-612-10054-8
  • Mette Winge: Tove Ditlevsen . In: Danske digtere i det 20. århundrede . Volume II. Gad, Copenhagen 1981, ISBN 87-12-17452-1
  • Tove Ditlevsen . In: Wilpert: Lexicon of world literature . DTV, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-59050-5

Web links

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  1. ↑ Annegret Heitmann: Tove Ditlevsen. Biography . In: Frauenbiographieforschung (1992) [1]
  2. ↑ Joachim drinking joke: Tove Ditlevsen . In: The Classics of Scandinavian Literature
  3. ↑ CD Mitt ville hjerte (My wild heart) . Kirkelig K (Indigo) 1987
  4. ↑ Tove Ditlevsen. Biography . In: Frauenbiografieforschung (1992) [2]
personal data
SURNAME Ditlevsen, Tove
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1976
Place of death Copenhagen , Denmark