Inger Christensen
Inger Christensen ( born January 16, 1935 in Vejle, Denmark, † January 2, 2009 in Copenhagen) was a Danish writer. She was one of the most important European poet of her generation, and was for decades as a candidate for the Nobel Prize.
Life and work
Inger Christensen trained as a primary school teacher, studied medicine, chemistry and mathematics at the University of Copenhagen and worked for several years at an art school. Since 1962, she lived in Copenhagen.
After her debut with the poetry collection Lys (German Light) in 1962, she published in 1969 one of her major works, the cycle of poems Det (Eng. The ). This several hundred pages long Great poem with allusions to Dante's Divina Commedia plays with structural designs and order a pattern that is determined by the number eight. It is also based on the recurrence of certain grammatical terms.
This collection of poems alphabet (English alphabet 1981), her second major work, a named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci series of numbers in which each term of the series is the sum of the two preceding numbers calculated ( refers to the so-called Fibonacci series, ie: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ... ). Christensen continued the Fibonacci numbers in correspondence with the structure and growth of various plant species.
In addition, published from her other books of poetry and a variety of other literary works, including two novels, children 's books, plays, radio plays and numerous essays, many of them also in German translation, such as in 2000, the volume of essays The secret state and poem about death.
Christensen was a member of the Danish Academy, the European Academy of Poetry and since 2001 the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In German language their books in translation by Hanns Grössel appeared, mostly as a bilingual editions, in Münster New Directions Publishing.