Evert Taube

Evert Axel Taube ( pronunciation: [ ˌ e ː vəʈ to ː b], born March 12, 1890 in Gothenburg, † January 31, 1976 in Stockholm) was a Swedish poet, composer, singer and painter. He belonged to the Baltic German nobility at pigeon.

Life

Evert Taube was born in Gothenburg and spent his early years on the skerry Vinga in the Kattegat before Gothenburg. His father was a naval officer. Already in his early youth came Evert Taube constantly with the sea and seafaring in contact, which sustainably influenced his work. After failures in school he started an apprenticeship as a theater in Gothenburg painter, but then moved to Stockholm, where he attempted a sort of bohemian life. 1908-1910 Evert Taube went to sea as a sailor. His voyages took him to Australia. Some years of his life Evert Taube in Argentina, where he pursued various activities. Among other things, he worked for farmers in the Pampas and as a worker in a sewer. In connection with the outbreak of the First World War Evert Taube went back to Sweden. Evert Taube led the life of a free artist and often was in economic difficulties. In 1925, he married the artist Astri Bergman, with whom he had four children.

Evert Taubes songs, which he published from the early 1920s, were in Sweden soon became popular. Evert Taube sang his own songs virtuoso and has published numerous records. Evert Taubes son Sven- Bertil Taube ( born 1934) was a successful actor and singer, especially as an interpreter of his father's songs.

Throughout his life Evert Taube reached - not least thanks to the television - an immense popularity. His performances in the Stockholm amusement park Gröna Lund, where he sang his own songs to the lute or recited, were legendary. Towards the end of his life fighting against Evert Taube pollution and against the destruction of historic buildings in the cities.

Evert Taube received numerous honors: In 1950, he received the Bellman Prize of the Swedish Academy, 1966, he was made an honorary Doctor of Philosophy, University of Gothenburg, in 1970 he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Work

Evert Taube is considered alongside Carl Michael Bellman, to whom he anknüpfte aware, as a Swedish national poet par excellence. He wrote a large number of selbstvertonten songs. Recurring themes are the seafaring life, the Swedish nature and adventure in distant lands. His catchy songs are extremely popular in Sweden and are sung quite often. Evert Taube understood it in a unique way to portray typical Swedish landscapes such as the Stockholm Archipelago and the Swedish west coast of Bohuslän.

Like his idol Carl Michael Bellman created Evert Taube a number of people who return time and again in his songs: Above all, the adventurous and swashbuckling sailors Fritiof Andersson and Karl Alfred and the art-loving squires are to name Rönnerdahl. DC Erik Axel Karlfeldt and Dan Andersson dominated Evert Taube virtuoso art, with evocative place names ( Sjösala, San Remo, Rio de la Plata, etc.) to create a suggestive name magic.

Evert Taube also wrote prose (novels, autobiographies, travel accounts ) and plays and worked as a painter and draftsman. He also dealt with the medieval Provencal troubadours, whose heritage as he saw himself. He himself wanted to be perceived as a demanding artist and was always a little disappointed that it was reduced in the public perception of the role of the popular songs of the poet. I prefer to stand on the big stage at Gröna Lund, than to sit in the Swedish Academy - with this defiant utterance played Evert Taube his disappointment that his life dream, the election to the Swedish Academy, was not fulfilled.

Song Collections

Evert Taube published his songs in a number of collections of songs:

  • Sju sjömansvisor och Byssan Lull ( "Seven shanties and Byssan Lull ", 1919)
  • Flickan och ett par i Havana visor till ( " The Girl in Havana and a few songs ", 1922)
  • The Gyldene Freden ( " The Golden Peace", 1924)
  • Bröllopsballader och rosenrim ( "wedding ballads and rhymes Rose ", 1925)
  • Kärleksvisor och sjöballader ( " love songs and Seeballaden ", 1927)
  • Fritiof Andersson visbok ( " Fritiof Andersson's Songbook ", 1929)
  • The Gyldene Fredens folianter ( " The Golden Tome of Peace", 1934)
  • Ultramarine ( " ultramarine ", 1936)
  • Himlajord ( "Heaven Earth", 1938)
  • Fiorella från Caramella ( " Fiorella from Caramella ", 1941)
  • Sjösalaboken ( " The Sjösalabuch ", 1942)
  • Ballader i Bohuslän ( " ballads in Bohuslän ", 1943)
  • Svärmerier ( " ravings ", 1946)
  • Ballader i det blå ( " Ballad in Blue ," 1948)
  • Pepita dansar ( " Pepita dances", 1950)
  • I dina drömmar ( " In your dreams ", 1953)
  • Förlustelse och frid ( " pleasures and Peace", 1957)
  • Septentrion ( " Septentrion ", 1958)
  • Och så det skulle vara ( " And it should be so," 1959)

Literature and CD Note

  • Mikael Timm, Evert Taube - Livet som const, Konsten som live, Stockholm 1998 ( Full biography in Swedish )
  • Diktaren och tiden - Evert Taube 1921-1970, EMI ( sung double CD with a wide selection of songs in photographs from the years 1921 to 1970, of Evert Taube himself) 1990
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