Hans E. Kinck
Hans Ernst Kinck ( born October 11, 1865 in Øksfjord, † October 13th 1926 in Oslo) was a Norwegian writer and philologist. He wrote prose and drama, is one of the most important writers of Norway and has many other artists influenced. Overall Kinck has published over 30 books. Some of his publications are associated with neo-romanticism, but his work also includes influences from Realism and Impressionism to. Comparisons were also drawn to the visual arts of Expressionism and Art Nouveau.
Life
Kinck was the son of the physician Otto Theodor Kinck and his wife Hanna Guliante Johannessen, born in Finnmark. His youth was marked by the difficult coexistence between its educated, literary and art-loving father and simple, coming from a farming family mother. Kinck had eight siblings, four of whom died as children.
His father worked in government service he worked at various locations in Norway. The family moved when Kinck was six years old, after Setesdalen, four years later after Strandebarm in Hardanger.
Kinck also visited high schools in Bergen and Kristiania. There he received in 1884 the Abitur. During his studies philology in Christiania and hall, from which he graduated in 1890, he was a member of a fraternity, discussed in the student with Georg Brandes about left-wing politics and culture. After graduating cum laude, he became a teacher, but decided after a year to return to the university. There he worked as a librarian and continued his studies.
1893 married Kinck the writer Minda Ramm, with whom he later had two daughters: Eli (* 1897) and Jeanette (* 1900). The honeymoon, the couple spent in London and Paris, where Kinck Knut Hamsun and Jonas Lie met. Between Lie and Kinck who held similar views on many issues, a close friendship developed.
Kinck lived mainly in Christiania, but it dropped from the second half of the 1890s also regularly in Italy, mainly in Florence, on.
Work
His first poems were published from 1892 he published books, some of which were translated into other languages from 1888th. His works are sometimes critical of society. Kinck was Italian Fascism hostile to, but was also skeptical towards leftist politics.
An important feature is also the relationship with the Norwegian folklore. A recurring theme is relationships between an educated man and a farmer, like his parents, they have led. Later works are inspired by the Italian Renaissance. He is also committed in several books on the topic of emigration apart.
Reception
In the early 1920s Kinck was next to Knut Hamsun and Arne Garborg one of three in the discussion for the Nobel Prize for Literature traded Norwegian authors. Although spoke up several Norwegian professors and writers for him at the committee received in 1920 but Hamsun for blessing the earth the price.
Works (selection)
- Huldren. Ungt folk. Aschehoug, Oslo 1973, ISBN 82-03-05654-7 ( Nachdr d ed Kristiania 1892 ( 93) ).
- Sus. The yngstes Ungdom. Aschehoug, Kristiania 1898.
- Hugormen. Aschehoug, Kristiania 1898.
- Emigrants ( " Emigranter "). Merseburger Verlag, Leipzig, 1906.
- Flaggermus - vinger. Eventyr vestfra. Aschehoug, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-03-17543-0. ( Nachdr d ed Kristiania 1895)
- If the apples ripen ( " Vaarnætter "). Aschehoug, Kristiania 1903.
- When love dies ( " Naar kærlighed dør "). Merseburger Verlag, Leipzig 1913.
- Driftekaren. Aschehoug, Oslo 1979, ISBN 82-03-09931-9 ( Nachdr d ed Oslo 1908).
- Machiavelli. His story and his time ( " Renaissancemennesker "). Schwabe Verlag, Basel, 1938.