Jón Sveinsson
Jón Sveinsson Stefán ( born November 16, 1857 in Möðruvellir, Iceland, † October 16, 1944 in Cologne) is by its Nonni books one of the most famous in Germany Icelandic writer and was a Jesuit. He published his work worldwide under the name Jón Svensson - with the exception of Iceland, where his last name " Sveinsson " is unchanged.
Life
Nonni is a diminutive of the name Jón. Jón Sveinsson was born on the farm in Möðruvellir Hörgárdalur in Akureyri. His parents were Sigríður Jónsdóttir (1826-1910) from Reykjahlíð at Mývatn and Sveinn Þórarinsson (1821-1869), clerk at the Office Pétur Havstein man, the father of Hannes Hafstein. His parents had eight children, three of whom died in the fall of 1860 during childhood diphtheria. Growing up are Björg ( Bogga ) ( 1854-1882 ), Jón Stefán ( Nonni ) ( 1857-1944 ), Sigríður Guðlaug ( 1858-1916 ), Ármann ( Manni ) ( 1861-1885 ) and Fridrik ( 1864-1943 ). His mother brought Kristín (1852-1949) into the marriage. 1865 the family moved to Akureyri in the Palshus, named after the first residents. Today it is a well-known under the name Nonni house or Nonnahús Museum. Nonni had a happy childhood, however, was marred by the early death of his father Sveinn Þórarinsson in 1869. In 1870 he left Iceland at the invitation of France. The winter of 1870 he spent in Copenhagen, where he waited for the end of the Franco-German War. In France, he was able to attend better schools, such as from 1871 in Amiens. He took the Catholic faith, entered the Society of Jesus, studied and was eventually ordained a priest in 1890 in Liverpool. Since the Reformation in the 16th century Sveinsson was the first Icelandic Catholic priest.
Since 1906, he wrote the 12 " Nonni books" about his youth in Iceland and his later life and work in Europe, USA and Japan in the German language, the mostly been published by Herder. They were translated into more than 30 languages. Iceland Nonni visited only twice (1894 and 1930 on horseback ) at the invitation of the Government of Iceland to the thousandth anniversary of the oldest existing parliament in the world, the Althing. From 1936 to 1938 he made an extensive world and lecture tour in the USA, Canada and Japan.
Sveinsson died on October 16, 1944 at Cologne St. Francis Hospital and was buried at the Cologne Melaten Cemetery, in the " tomb of Cologne's Jesuit ". There, since January 2011, is a bank " to linger and browse ." The text on the sponsors sign reads: ". In memory of Jón Svensson Donated by Nonni friends, the DIG and the publisher Herder ". The bank was made possible by donations to the "Cologne Green Foundation ", which works to improve the urban landscape, the parks, etc.. In Cologne -Ehrenfeld and his consecrated in honor of the Nonniweg and Nonnibrunnen. Similarly, there are in Cologne- Ehrenfeld an "Open Door" for children and adolescents, which bears the name " Nonni Club" and was launched in the 1960s by Pastor Hermann -Josef Hieronymi, a large Nonni 's admirers into life.
As a six -part television series Nonni and Manni was filmed in 1988 (Taurus -Film GmbH ) and aired as a Christmas series on ZDF. For this was the Herder -Verlag 1988, the book " Nonni and Manni - The boys of the Fire Island" ( author Georg Telemann, ISBN 3-451-21356-7 ) out. The same film is on DVD ( in German ) in trade ( 4 260131 126383 ), KSM GmbH, Sales: NewKSM / KSM GmbH. In October 2010 there was a "Special Edition" as a three-piece box set out: Disc 1 and Disc 2 show the episodes 1-3 and 4-6 of the above ZDF - Christmas series, supplemented by interesting " audio commentary " directed to the formation of the film; this can be a turn off or on. Disc 3 is called " Bonus " and contains the following interesting "Tools", "How Nonni his luck found " - ZDF documentary, about 44 minutes; " Gardar and Einar - Two guys from Iceland " - Documentary, about 33 minutes; Biographies of Jón Svensson, Ágúst Guðmundsson, Gardar Einar Örn Einarsson and Thór Cortes; Photo gallery and trailers of the Christmas series. KSM GmbH (4 260 181 985 749 ). Since 2008, in Iceland, the three -language DVD " Nonni og Manni ", on Icelandic, English and German, the English version is the original version ( Bergvik ehf. ). The soundtrack of this film is available both as LP, single, cassette and CD; the music was composed by Klaus Doldinger.
Works
Jon Svensson thirteen books ( in order of German first publication ):
- Nonni ... and whistles on it. An adventure story from the mountains of Iceland. Freiburg: Herder, 1953 ( Bufi books; 3).
- Nonni in Snowstorm: 2 stories. Berlin: Evang. ET -Anstalt, 1957.