Hans Scherfig

Hans Scherfig ( born April 8, 1905 in Copenhagen, † January 28, 1979 in Hillerød ) was a Danish writer, painter and graphic artist.

Life and work

Scherfig grew up in a middle-class family. From 1924 he studied in Copenhagen languages ​​, literature and science subjects, but should never earn a degree. Scherfig married in 1931 Elisabeth Karlinsky ( 1905-1994 ), an Austrian- Danish painter. The director Lone Scherfig ( born 1959 ) is Hans Scherfig's grandniece.

On Scherfig's literary debut, " The døde mand " (1937 ) was followed by stories, travel stories, political essays and several novels. Some are among the most important satires of Danish literature. " The forsvundne fuldmægtig " (1938, filmed 1971) caricatured philistine freedom aspirations, let the one ministry fake his own death to escape the narrowness and callousness of his marriage. « Det forsømte Forår " (1940, filmed 1993) focuses on the inhumane methods of education that had characterized the school of the author. « Idea Lister " (1943 /45) takes esoteric, political visionaries and charlatans targeted. « Frydenholm " (1962 ), finally, is the great novel about the Nazi occupation and the beneficiary of the Danish government collaboration. A group of Communist villagers forms the positive counterpart to the corrupt, makes obsessed representatives of the bourgeois class.

Scherfig was a committed Marxist and since 1932 a member of the Communist Party. That's why he was interned in the camp in 1941 Horserød. Due to an impending blindness, however, he came again. In 1945 he wrote for the Communist daily newspaper "Land og Folk».

Even as a painter Scherfig has gained recognition. Since 1928, he exhibited works. Its colorful lithographs with jungle and animal motifs borrow from the naive art, and are popular to this day in Denmark.

Scherfig is buried in the cemetery Copenhagen assistance. His grave is adorned with a unmarked grave stone in the form of a turtle.

Awards

Works in German translation

The DDR -Verlag Volk und Welt published:

  • The Lost Kanzleirat, 1949
  • Idealists, 1950
  • The missed Spring, 2nd edition 1952
  • The Scorpion, 1954
  • The dead man, 1958
  • Castle Frydenholm, 1969
  • The Lost Monkey, 1975

In Reclam -Verlag published a satire Ludvig Holberg, retold and illustrated by Scherfig

  • Nicolai Klim's underground travel, 1971
Collaborationism Marxism Communist Party of Denmark Grand Prize of the Danish Academy Integrated Authority File
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