Per Olov Enquist

Per Olov " P. O. " Enquist [ PAE ː r u ː e ː lɔv nkvist ] ( born September 23, 1934 in Hjoggböle, community Skellefteå ) is a Swedish writer and journalist.

Life

Per Olov Enquist is the son of Maja Lindgren (1903-1992) and Elof Enquist ( 1903-1935 ). His father, who was a Social Democrat, worked as a stevedore in the summer and in the winter as a lumberjack. Until the age of 16 he was brought up by his widowed mother. She was the village school teacher, supporter of the People's Party and was a member of the Pentecostal movement. ( His novel Lewis Travel devoted to the author of his mother. ) Enquist, the high jumper in his youth ( record: 1.97 m) was studied after high school, he had graduated to a boarding school, from 1955 to 1964, the trade literature at Uppsala University. In the first year Per Olov Enquist and Lars Gustafsson lived together in an apartment to sublet. The study ended Enquist, 1960, with M. A. and 1966 with a Licentiate about the author Thorsten Jonsson. During his studies Enquist belonged to the circle around the Swedish magazine Rondo.

His writing began under the influence of the then French nouveau roman. Enquist made ​​his debut in the fall of 1961 with the novel Kristallögat. Previously, he married Margaret, his childhood friend from high school days, in Skellefteå. This first marriage produced son Mats ( born 1961 ) and daughter Jenny ( born 1968 ). From January 1970 to 1971 allowed for a one-year DAAD support the writer - and his family - a study in West Berlin.

During his studies Enquist wrote literary criticism - initially for the newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning, 1963-1966 for the Svenska Dagbladet and then for the tabloid Expressen. Until 1976 he worked as a columnist for newspapers and as a television presenter. As a reporter, he covered the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and also about the hostage-taking of Munich. After his return Enquist wrote the book The Cathedral in Munich in his mother's apartment in Bureå. His impressions of the dramatic days he finally summed up in the sentence:

In December 1972 Enquist traveled with his family to Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) as a visiting professor. In 1975 he made ​​his debut with the play The Night of tribades, which was translated in the following years in thirty languages ​​and staged over three hundred times. Other plays followed.

In June 1978 his first marriage ended in divorce. Enquist and the Dane Lone Bastholm - director of drama at the Royal Theatre - married in the same year. From 1978 to 1993 the Swedish author lived in Denmark - except in the years 1986 to 1988: During this time, the couple lived in Paris, where his wife worked as a cultural attaché at the Danish Embassy. During his stay in France Enquist stepped alcohol dependence prominent. In 1989, Per Olov Enquist tried several times with the help of therapeutic options to achieve ( drugs, clinics and Methods) an abstinent lifestyle. Finally, the author succeeded in February 1990 a new beginning as Totalabstinenzler and another life could begin.

Since 1977, Per Olov Enquist is a freelance writer. He sits still for a union organization of writers. From the Swedish Writers' Union, whose board member, he was for a time, he has now resigned after a controversy. Enquist now lives and works in Stockholm.

"I think there is in all men a frequently underestimated urge to be an artist. "

Work

Content

In his work can be seen a rather melancholy view of the world. Again and again, the author describes the limitations imposed by a pietistic or free church life, especially in the extension of the musicians and Lewis travel. Being in the German-speaking area known work, the historical novel The Visit of the Royal Physician, in which he represents the ratio of the doctor and politician Struensee to the Danish Queen Caroline. Back in 1966, his novel was published in Germany for the first time, the fifth winter of the magnetizer in which Enquist also starts from a historical person. In this work of Franz Anton Mesmer is the model for the protagonist Friedrich Meisner.

For his first children's novel grandfather and the wolves, which is based on an outing with his grandchildren, he was awarded the LYNX 2003.

In its written in the third person autobiography Another Life reported Enquist, among other things about childhood in a northern Swedish village, the creation and reception of some works - particularly the documentary novel The extradited person who treats the so-called " Baltic surrender", but also the plays - as well as about his alcoholism.

Publications

Novels

  • Kristallögat. . Norstedts, Stockholm 1961 ( German Title: The crystal eye. )
  • Magnetisörens femte vinter. . Norstedts & Söner, Stockholm 1964 ( German Title: The fifth winter of the magnetizer from Swedish translated by Hans -Joachim Maass First German edition in Erdmann, Herrenalb 1966 edition by Hanser, Munich, Vienna 2002. .. )
  • Legionärerna. En bok om baltutlämningen. . Norstedts, Stockholm 1968 ( German title: Die extradited from Swedish translated by Hans -Joachim Maas Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1969.. . )
  • The Sekundant. Roman ( 1971)
  • Extract of the musicians. (1982)
  • Nedstörtad Ängel. . Norstedts, Stockholm 1985 ( German edition: Turned angel from Swedish translated by Wolfgang Butt Hanser, Munich 1987 ISBN 3-446-14535-4. . )
  • Captain Nemo's library. (1994).
  • Livläkarens besök. . Norstedts, Stockholm 1999 ( German edition: The Visit of the Royal physician from Swedish translated by Wolfgang Butt Hanser, Munich, Vienna 2001 ISBN 3-446-19980-2. . )
  • Lewis Resa. Roman ( 2001). ( German title: Lewis Travel Hanser, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-446-20267-6. )
  • The Book of Blanche and Marie. Hanser, Munich, 2007. ISBN 3-596-17172-5.
  • The book of parables. A love story. Hanser, Munich, 2013, ISBN 3-446-24330-5.

Plays

  • Tribadernas natt. ( German title: Night of the tribades. ) Premiere: 1975
  • Chez nous. Together with Anders Ehnmark. UA: 1976
  • Till Fedra. ( German title: blackout. ) Premiere: 1980 (directed. Lone Bastholm )
  • Från Regnormarnas Liv. ( German title: From the Life of the earthworms. ) Premiere: 1981
  • I Lodjurets Timma. ( German Title: In the hour of the lynx. ) Premiere: 1988

Essay

  • The mapper. (1997)

Children's book

  • Grandfather and the wolves. Hanser, Munich, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-446-20345-7
  • Grandfather and the smugglers. Hanser, Munich, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23659-2

Biography

  • Strindberg. A life, from the Swedish by Verena Reichel, updated edition, btb Verlag / Random House, Munich 2012, 283 pp.

Without generic

  • Ett liv annat. . Norstedts, Stockholm 2008 ( German edition: Another life from Swedish translated by Wolfgang Butt Hanser, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-446-23270-9. . )

Screenplays

Awards

Enquist has received numerous awards, including:

70th birthday in 2005 donated his international publishers the Per- Olov Enquist Prize for young writers from across Europe charisma.

Swedish literature Liberal People's Party (Sweden) Lewi Pethrus German Academic Exchange Service Royal Danish Theatre Johann Friedrich Struensee Franz Mesmer Creative nonfiction August Strindberg Nordic Council's Literature Prize August Prize Uwe Timm Perlentaucher Integrated Authority File
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