Rolf Jacobsen (poet)
Rolf Jacobsen ( born March 8, 1907 in Kristiania, † February 20, 1994 in Hamar ) was a Norwegian poet and journalist. Some of his poems were set to music.
Life and work
Rolf Jacobsen studied after graduating from high school in 1926, theology and philology. In 1930, he was among the founders of the first mixed Scandinavian student choir. Under the pseudonym Rolf Hovre he wrote some hit songs. In 1933 he published his first volume of poetry Jord og jern ( Earth and Iron ) in which it inspires, as well as in the published two years later band Vrimmel ( swarm ) of the art, the city bustle describes, but in relation to the nature. In his unrhymed poetry, he wanted to bring modern civilization, "Word and rhythm " should breathe the " sphere of Flugzeuggedröhn and lifting cranes and railway sleepers. In Jacobsen's city because the telephone wires nerve fibers, the gas lines blood vessels are. "
Jacobsen worked as a journalist; He married 1940. During the same year he joined the Fascist Party Nasjonal Samling. In 1945, he was arrested. He stated that he would not join the party, when the king and government would not leave the country. He was sentenced to three and a half years of forced labor.
1951 Jacobsen converted to Catholicism and, after 16- year break, published his third book of poems Fjerntog. In 1953 he was taken back into the Den norske Forfatterforening Writers' Association. His most famous poems are from the 1954 published collection of poetry Hemmelig live ( Secret Life ). " His poetry " here is " internalized nuanced and become less rhetorical, [ ... ] also humor and serenity resonate with. "
Poems were set to music by Jacobsen among others by the composer Helge Iberg, Egil Kapstad ( ' Til jorden ", 1979), Ketil Bjørnstad ( " The Sorrow ( Rolf Jacobsen Memoriam ) ", 2006) and Torstein Aagaard -Nilsen; the latter has composed other 1992 ' Ensomme " for mixed choir and 1994 " Vår jord, vår evighet ", a cantata on the occasion of Tromsø 200th anniversary.
Grief over his deceased wife in 1983, but also resignation press his poems in the collection of poetry published in 1985 Nattåpent. Jacobsen's poetry has been translated into a dozen languages . Hans Magnus Enzensberger took him as the only Norwegian poet in his collection Museum of Modern Poetry.
Publications
- Jord og jern (1933 )
- Vrimmel (1935 )
- Fjerntog (1951)
- Hemmelig liv (1954 )
- Sommeren i gresset (1956 )
- Brev til Lyset (1960 )
- Stillheten efterpå (1965)
- Headlines ( 1969)
- Pass for Dorene - Dorene lukkes (1972 )
- Pusteøvelse (1975)
- The ensomme veranda (1977 )
- Tenk på noe annet (1979 )
- Liv laga (1982 )
- Nattåpent (1985)
- All mine dikt (1990 )
Poems in German Anthologies (selection)
- Klaus Anders; Andreas Struve: a taste of a star. Norwegian poetry of the 20th century. Bilingual. Rugerup Edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-942955-01-0
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Museum of Modern Poetry. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1960
- Manfred Gsteiger (ed.): ships in the world literature. Manesseplatz 2001, ISBN 978-3-7175-1969-0