Karl Friedrich Kurz

Karl Friedrich Kurz ( born September 23, 1878 in Bremgarten (hard home on the Rhine ), † 26 June 1962, Norway ) was a German writer.

Life

As a child, parents moved with him to Basel. He wanted to be a painter and enrolled at the Academy in Karlsruhe.

But circumstances made ​​him a writer. He vagabundierte by many parts of the world ( East Asia, Japan ) before he settled in Norway. Here he wrote stories in German. In addition to the writer Knut Hamsun influenced him the nature and life of the population in the fjords of Sogn and Sunnfjord.

His stories were successful and achieved high sales figures. 1934 Large Schiller Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation in Zurich, he was awarded.

At first he lived in the area of Solund, then close Vadheim in Sognefjord, moved in 1924 after Vårdal ( Dalsfjorden ) in Sunnfjord, where he lived until 1950, when he left his family and settled in Nessjøen ( Sotra ) in Hordaland. There he lived until his death.

His posthumous works are largely missing.

Buried is short in the cemetery of Holmedal ( Dalsfjorden ) Sunnfjord.

Stories

• From the Nile to Mount Fuji (1910, his first work )
• Kohana (Japanese Love Idyll ) Huber; Frauenfeld and Leipzig ( 1910)
• Midnight sun and northern lights (1914 )
• Men from the fjord, Westermann ( 1947) ( also translated into Norwegian by Heidi Bright and Rolf Losnegård: Herskap ved fjords, ISBN 978-82-7959-033-0 )
• In the Kingdom Mjelvik, Westermann ( 1930)
• Tyra, the fairytale island (1935 )
• The Son of the Sea ( 1937)
• A blessed Liar (1938 )
• Dream and goal, Dt. Paper Association ( 1940) ( for this story, he received the 1934 Grand Prize of the Swiss Schiller Schiller Foundation )
• Mr. Erling's maid, Westermann ( 1947)
• The ghosts coach, Westermann ( 1953)