Georg Johannesen

Georg Johannesen ( born February 22, 1931 in Bergen, † December 24, 2005 in Egypt) was a Norwegian writer, translator, painter and politician. He wrote poems and prose. Mostly he published under the pseudonym Guri Johns.

Life

Johannesen studied in Oslo literary history. He has worked as a teacher. Johannesen was a Communist and a legislature long for the Sosialistisk Folkeparti member of the city council of Oslo. From 1973 he was a lecturer, later professor of rhetoric in Bergen. He died in 2005 during a vacation trip.

His debut as a writer, he was in 1957 with the novel Høst i mars. He also strongly influenced by Bertolt Brecht wrote poems and a play, Cassandra, which was also influenced by Brecht and was premiered in 1967. It is based on a comedy by Aristophanes. The volumes of poetry Ars Moriendi Ars Vivendi and were also published in German.

Johannesen was awarded a number of prizes. In 2000 he was awarded the Norwegian Academy.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • Høst i mars (1957 )
  • Novels om Mongstad (1989 )

Volumes of poetry

  • Dikt 1959 (1959)
  • Ars Moriendi eller de syv dødsmåter (1965, German Ars Moriendi or the seven deaths in 1991 )
  • Nye DICT (1966 )
  • Ars Vivendi (1999, German 2006)

Spectacles

  • Kassandra (1967 )

Swell

  • Horst Bien uA: Meyers Taschenlexikon North European literatures, Leipzig 1978
  • Author
  • University teachers (Bergen, Norway)
  • Literature ( Norwegian)
  • Norwegian
  • Born in 1931
  • Died in 2005
  • Man
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