Clara Nordström

Clara Nordström (birth name and artist name of Clara Elisabet von Vegesack; born 18 January 1886 in Karlskrona, Sweden, † February 7, 1962 in Mindelheim ) was a Swedish-born, primarily active in Germany writer and translator.

Life

Clara Elisabet Nordström was born as the daughter of a doctor and a farmer in Karlskrona. She grew up in Växjö, where she was confined to bed due to illness up to the age of twelve. Only then, she attended various private schools in Växjö. In 1903 she came to Hildesheim and then to Brunswick, to learn the German language.

1905, they married in Växjö the 15 -year-older son of their teacher. From this marriage came in 1906 her son Gustav Adolf forth. Her husband left her, and the marriage was divorced in 1909. Nordström returned for a short time to Vaxjo and moved in the same year to Germany, where she wanted to be a photographer in Berlin. After three years of training and internship she had to leave the profession for health reasons.

In 1912 she moved to Munich to become a writer. There she met in 1914 Siegfried von Vegesack, whom she married in Stockholm 1915. In 1916 she moved with her husband to Berlin where her daughter Isabel was born in April 1917. Due to a disease Siegfried von Vegesack the family moved in 1917 to a farm near Dingolfing and later to Großwalding at Deggendorf. In 1918 she bought an old cereal box at the ruins of white stone near the rain, they repurposed for residential tower. 1920 was the second daughter, Karin, who was born, who died a few days later. In 1923, Gotthard son into the world, which fell in 1944 during the Second World War. In 1923 Nordström both in Germany and in Sweden her first novel Tomtelilla. All of the following books were published only in German.

After her mother died, was an important source of money away. Nordström therefore opened in the tower provides accommodation for artists and writers. In these years, the couple lived apart slowly. 1929 the family moved to Switzerland. Shortly after, Clara Nordström moved with the children to Stuttgart and divorced in 1935 at the request Vegesack. This year, they began to hold lectures throughout Germany. In 1936, she returned briefly in the residential tower in white stone in the rain, built 1938/39, a house in Baiersbronn in the Black Forest.

From Germany Nordström published during the war article in The Svenske Folk Socialists, organ of the National Socialist Workers' Party Sven Olov Lindholm. 1944 Nordström was appointed to Königsberg to read in the Swedish program of the German Reich transmitter Königsberg from their texts, but had to flee in 1945 to Hamburg.

Throughout her life she had always struggled with serious illnesses and sat down heavily with their faith differ on what the characters do in their books. In 1948 she moved from the Protestant to the Catholic denomination. Around 1950 they moved again to Stuttgart, was an Oblate of St. Benedict in the monastery church of Neresheim. In 1952 she settled in Diessen down in order to keep in Bavaria readings can.

She died in 1962 at the age of 76 and was buried in Mindelheim.

Works

• Tomtelilla, 1923 ( revised 1953)
• Kajsa Lejondahl, 1933
• Ms. Kajsa, 1934
• Roger Björn, 1935
• Lillemor, 1936
• The call of home, 1938
• Bengta, the farmer from Skane, 1941
• Star Rider, 1946 ( from 1951 in another publisher under the name Engelbrecht Engelbrechtsson )
• The last of the Svenske, 1952
• Light between the clouds, 1952
• Kristof, 1955
• The road to the big lights, 1955
• My Life, 1957
• The foundling of Saint Erikshof, 1961
• The flight to Sweden, 1960
• The higher love, 1963 ( posthumously )