Trygve Emanuel Gulbranssen
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Trygve Emanuel Gulbranssen (born June 15, 1894 in Kristiania , † October 10, 1962 in Eidsberg ) was a Norwegian writer .
Life
Trygve Gulbranssen was born on Molstadgården at Enebakkveien 39 in Vålerenga, a district of what was then Kristiania, now Oslo. His parents were Christians Gulbrandsen (1863-1943) and Alette Gulbrandsen, née Dahl (1863-1941). He had two older brothers, Birger and Alfred, and three younger sisters, Camilla, Ragnhild Margrethe and Tora Elvira.
His father Christen, a trained carpenter and carpenter, earned his living building housing in the up-and-coming Kristiania, but his small company got into economic difficulties around the turn of the century, so Trygve spent his childhood in rather modest circumstances. From an early age, the boy had to work as an errand boy for the neighborhood traders to supplement the family income. After finishing school, at the age of 14, he started working at the Actieselskapet Excelsior glue factory , where he stayed for five years. After that he made a living in different professions. He was in 1918 as a sports journalist , before he is two years later than entrepreneurs made independently.
On November 30, 1928, Trygve Gulbranssen married Lilly Ragna Haneborg in the Trinity Church (Trefoldighetskirken) in Oslo. His wife came from the rural community of Øymark in the Fylke Østfold . The young couple initially moved into a modest two-room apartment in the Ullevål district of Oslo, after the birth of their first child, daughter Ragna in 1930, they moved to a much larger apartment at 22 Tyrihansveien in the Vestre Aker district. In 1933 their second child, son Per, was born. During this time, Trygve was working as a journalist, he began his first literary work in the evenings.
After the commercial success of his books could be the family in the summer of 1935 afford, in a spacious town house in Eventyrveien 40 in the district Blindern draw.
With the outbreak of war in Norway , he gave up his activity as a wholesaler in Oslo to retire to his estate near Eidsberg and work there exclusively as a freelance writer.
In the years that followed, he achieved great international fame for his Björndal trilogy , which has been translated into over 30 languages , making it one of the greatest hits in Norwegian fiction .
Works
The two-part German-language edition of the Björndal trilogy ( And forever sing the forests , The legacy of Björndal ) was published in 1935 and 1936 by Georg Müller Verlag, Munich. For a long time it was one of the best-selling books on the German market. In the post-war period, the novels were filmed by the Viennese "Mundus Film" with Gert Fröbe , Maj-Britt Nilsson and Joachim Hansen in the leading roles. The first film And Forever Singing (1959) was awarded the Bambi in 1961 as the most commercially successful film of 1960. The film sequel under the title The Legacy of Björndal was made in 1960.
The Björndal trilogy
- Og bakom synger skogene, 1933 (literally: "And the forests are singing in the background" - German title: "And the forests are singing forever" , 1935)
- Det blåser fra Dauingfjell, 1934 (literally: "The wind blows from the Totenberg" - German title: "The legacy of Björndal" , 1936)
- Ingen vei går utenom, 1935 (literally: "There is no other way" - German title: "Heimkehr nach Björndal" , 1936)
Web links
- Literature by and about Trygve Emanuel Gulbranssen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Trygve Gulbranssen and Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film on ZDF ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Björndal's legacy on IMDb
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gulbranssen, Trygve Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristiania |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1962 |
| Place of death | Eidsberg |