Hjalmar Söderberg
Hjalmar Söderberg ( pronunciation: [ ˌ ʝal ː ː maɹ sø dəɹbæɹʝ ], born July 2, 1869 in Stockholm, † October 14, 1941 in Copenhagen) was a Swedish writer of the fin-de- siècle. He is one of the most read and most popular writers of the turn of the century in Sweden today.
Life
Hjalmar Söderberg was born in Stockholm as a child of a family of civil servants and grew up in Stockholm. After a short trial study at the University of Uppsala, he started as a journalist, first in Kristianstad and then to work in Stockholm, where he in 1897 got a permanent job at the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
His first novel Förvillelser (English Errors, 1914, or aberrations, 2006) 1895 is part of the flâneur of the fin-de- siècle. Söderberg describes it disillusioned idlers and their decadent goings. The novel contains - as well as the following novels - a series of vivid descriptions of Stockholm turn of the century. In the novella collection Historietter (German History tablets ) of 1898 has its own individual style Söderberg found: clear, concise, short and slightly ironic. In the partially autobiographical novel Martin training and development Bircks ungdom ( Martin Bircks Youth) 1901 Childhood, years of study and life of a young officer in Stockholm are described before the turn of the century. Doctor Glass (German doctor glass), which appeared in 1905, is Söderbergs masterpiece. The novel, in which the author justifies a murder under the circumstances, the Conservatives broke a scandal. After his first novel had Söderberg accused of corrupt morals and good taste, now he became the focus of moral revulsion in conservative circles.
Söderberg marriage in 1899 Abenius Marta, with whom he had three children: Dora, born in 1899, Tom, born in 1900, Mikael, born in 1903, since his income was enough as a journalist and writer, not a middle class household, he soon came into financial. difficulties which were exacerbated when his marriage broke a few years later in fractures. Shortly thereafter, ended the long affair, which had led to the breakdown of the marriage, and Soderberg moved to Copenhagen in 1906, at first temporarily, from 1907 final, after the Dane Emilie Voss met. Financially, he was dependent on advances on the part of his publisher Bonnier and especially generous loans from the friend and patron Ernest Thiel. His considerable alcohol consumption now went on in alcoholism.
The events of this period of life processed Söderberg in the drama Gertrud (1906 ) and the novel The allvarsamma leken (Eng. The serious game ) in 1912, which is considered one of the most important novels of the Swedish literature of the turn of the century.
The following decades lived Söderberg in Copenhagen, where he mainly devoted himself to the history of religion and political issues. His critical preoccupation with religious matters resulted in the novels of Yahweh eld 1918 and Jesus Barabbas 1928. His political commitment was directed primarily against the rise of fascism, he fought in articles, especially in Göteborgs Handels -och Sjöfartstidning.