Victor Arendorff
Victor Arendorff (born April 27, 1878 in Stockholm , † February 16, 1958 ) was a Swedish writer , journalist and poet .
Life
Despite his bourgeois background, Arendorff was close to anarchism and syndicalism . Nevertheless, from 1896 he began a journalistic career in the right-wing newspaper Stockholms Dagblad . After four years he finished his work there and began to write for magazines from the anarchist, union and socialist spectrum, including the Journal of Fire . At this time his work as a writer and poet began and he published his first poems. Arendorff was one of the first bohemians in the old Klara district in Stockholm, which was demolished in the 1960s, and remained a key player together with Helmer Grundström , Emil Hagstrom and Nils Ferlin .
Arendorff was homeless for a long time and at that time lived in Hagapark near Solna near Stockholm. Once he sold the information that he had died to Dagens Nyheter in order to sell the news of his continued life after the successful coup .
In his books, Arendorff often describes the living conditions of the labor movement and the lumpen proletariat . He wrote for the Lantarbetare-Bladet .
He spent his last years in a nursing home in Stureby. He is buried on Skogskyrkogården in Enskede .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Lennart Leopold: Skönhetsdyrkare och socialdemokrat - Studier i Bengt Lidforss litteraturkritiska gärning. Södertälje 2001, p. 238f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arendorff, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish anarchist writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1958 |