Svend Borberg
Svend Borberg ( born April 8, 1888 in Copenhagen, † October 7, 1947 ) was a Danish author, editor, journalist and theater critic. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Sigurd Hjaltland and Mr. Stick.
Life
Svend Borberg came from the maternal gentry of North Jutland, his father worked as a doctor in Copenhagen. Svend Borberg, a follower of the theories of Sigmund Freud, studied from 1907 at the Metropolitanskolen in Copenhagen and graduated in 1908 as cand phil. from. He traveled like Paris and wrote his first poem in 1908 Verdensspejlet. His first publication was 1910, the prose poem Lilith bog (Eng. The book Lilith ), which was written in the Bible is old-fashioned style.
In 1920 he wrote his first play, Willingen ( Germany No ), the treated one of the first Danish plays with the traditional form and broke as a modern version of Odysseus tell the inhumanity of war. In the following years Svend Borberg worked at various newspapers and magazines in Copenhagen. In 1924, he wrote theater reviews and philosophical and cultural-historical essays and came in the late 20s in contact with Ruth Berlau, later lover of Bertolt Brecht, whom he adored. He promoted her career as an actress and helped her when writing time reports.
In 1934 appeared with Cirkus Juris a satirical play about the justice that dealt simultaneously with the Freudian theory of the psyche. The tragedy Synder above Helgen (German sinner and saint) from 1939 treated a gathering of Don Quixote and Don Juan. The latter is shown as a title imaging sinners with the dream of a saint who walks up the women with unattainable ideal demands. The tragedy made Borberg known beyond the borders of Denmark addition. The German premiere of sinner and saint was held on April 4, 1941 at the State Theatre in Hamburg with Stig of Nauckhoff and Helmuth Gmelin in the lead roles instead. At the Schiller Theatre in Berlin Will Quadflieg took over the role of Don Juan in a second staging in 1942. In 1942, Svend Borberg wrote a biography of the Danish actress Bodil Ipsen.
In 1940, Denmark was occupied by the German Wehrmacht. Svend Borberg engaged culturally for Nazi Germany until 1945. In March 1942 he was a signer of the deed of foundation of the European Writers' Association of Denmark in Weimar, which should be built by Joseph Goebbels as a competitor to the PEN Club. Within the ESV acted as spokesman Svend Borberg Denmark. At the same time he saw himself in the 1940s as a mediator between Nazi Germany and Denmark, and was in 1940 for services to the German -Danish relations with the Humboldt Medal of the German Academy Award in Munich.
Following the review by members of the Danish Writers 'Association ( Dansk Forfatterforening ) by the so-called court of honor ( Æresretten ) of the Association from December 1945 Svend Borberg 1947 excluded from the Danish Writers' Association. As early as 1946 he had been excluded from the Danish playwright Association ( Danske Dramatikeres Forbund ).
Svend Borberg died in 1947 in Copenhagen and was buried in the cemetery Mariebjerg in Gentofte. After his death Borbergs work was considered a long time in connection with his follower shaft as negative. Only in the 1970s, a new employment began with his work as a whole.
Family
Svend Borberg was married in first marriage with Jonna Bülow Claus von Bülow their child was born in 1926 to the world. The divorce took place 1930. Svend Borberg second wife was from 1932 with Eleonara Ibsen, a granddaughter of the writer Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne married.
Work
- Lilith turned ( The Book Lilith, novella, 1910)
- Ingen ( Nobody, drama, 1920)
- Cirkus juris. Eller, de siamesike Tvillinger. Et Tankespil (1935 )
- Synder above Helgen. Tragedie. (1939 ) Sinner and saint (bed Hermann Kiy and Herbert A. Frenzel, 1942)