Nils Ferlin

Nils Ferlin ( born December 11, 1898 in Karlstad, † October 21, 1961 in Stockholm) was a Swedish poet.

Life

The father of Nils Ferlin was a newspaper editor. 1908 the family moved to Filipstad where Nils Ferlins father was chief editor of the local newspaper. A year later, the father was found drowned, and it was possibly to suicide. 1914 Nils Ferlin graduated from the six-year secondary school. After several short-term activities, he went to sea in 1915, but moved to a few years back to Filipstad, where he worked as a revue artist. Later he moved to Stockholm, where he attended a drama school. On February 22, 1946 married Nils Ferlin and then moved to the country. After he had to spend the last years of life in hospital, died Nils Ferlin 1961.

Work

Nils Ferlin began his literary career - like Birger Sjöberg - as a writer of songs and couplets for revues. He later admitted self-critical in a famous poem: Jag har Salt mina visor till nöjets estrader / och Gud må förlåta mig somliga rader (I have my songs sold to entertainment platforms / and may God forgive me a few lines ).

Nils Ferlin regarded as the epitome of the typical bohemian. He is mostly with the legendary bohemian of - associated old Klara quarter in Stockholm - demolished in the 1960s. Nils Ferlin wrote catchy, often song-like poems that take a sober and pessimistic view of life from the position of the skeptical outsider. Many of his poems have been set to music. Famous are mainly the Module provided by Lille Bror Söderlundh. The language of the poem by Nils Ferlin is emphasized artless and simple. Nils Ferlin is strongly influenced by his great idol Gustaf Fröding, who also came from the Värmland.

Poetry collections

• En döddansares visor ( Songs of a Dead Dancer, 1930)
• Barfotabarn ( Barefoot Children, 1933)
• Goggles ( Goggles, 1938)
• Med många kulörta lyktor ( With many colorful lanterns, 1944)
• Kejsarens papegoja ( The parrot of the emperor, 1951)
• Från mitt ekorrhjul ( From my hamster, 1957)
• En gammal cylinderhatt ( An old hat, posthumously 1962)

German -language edition

• Nils Ferlin, In the labyrinth of life, Selected Poems, ISBN 3932759516