Thorkild Bjørnvig
Thorkild Strange Bjørnvig ( born February 2, 1918 in Aarhus, † March 5, 2004 in Aarhus ) was a Danish poet, novelist and translator of German poetry.
Life and work
Thorkild Bjørnvig grew up in Tokyo and later studied comparative literature at the University of Aarhus. His dissertation on the writer Martin A. Hansen appeared 1964. 1970 he married the politician Ingrid Bjørnvig.
In 1947 he debuted with the poetry book Stjærnen bag Gavlen (star behind the gable ) with descriptions of a young love. From 1948 to 1950 he was a staff member of the magazine Heretica. An important work is the 1968 published collection of poetry Ravnen ( The Raven ); the title refers to Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven. The work consists of 12 songs, in which he deals with his fate and staged an exuberant self- billing.
" Samspændt alene ved identitet med / pulse Rende stjerner, hjerter som banker / kerubisk I rummet, justerer VORT hjerte / og sfärisk crooked Linear tanks. held together by identity with / pulsating stars, cherubisch - ethereal / beating heart in space, adjusted / our heart and curves linear thinking spherical. "
Bjørnvig not only wrote poetry, but poetry was also a performer and translated many poems from the Germans, among others, all poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. The themes of his poetry are influenced by natural, he struggled against their destruction by man; his main motives are childhood, love and death.
The poet was a close friend of the writer Karen Blixen. Both were members of the Danish Academy in 1960. Through its cooperation and friendship he reported the pact in the first volume of his autobiography, published in 1974 in the Sansoni book. ( Pagten. With venskab med Karen Blixen ), which was published in German translation. In the other books he wrote about his childhood, his study time and the time after the war. For the translation of his Rilke poems ( Udsat på hjertets Bjerge ) he received the 1996 award- 20.000 EUR Übersetzerpreis the EU, the Prix Aristeion.
Publications
Danish first editions (selection)
German -language editions
- The Pact - my friendship with Karen Blixen. From the Danish by Gabriele Gerecke. Island, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-458-16517-7
Translations of German authors
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Udsat på hjertets Bjerge. Defendant. Sansoni, Copenhagen 1995, ISBN 87-00-20118-9
- Hermann Hesse: Rejsen til Morgenlandet. Nansensgade Antikvariat, Copenhagen 1987, ISBN 87-88211-14-2
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino elegier overs. Lyrikbogklubben borrow Sansoni, Copenhagen 1982, ISBN 87-7540-248-3
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Brød og vin og andre defendant. Brøndum, Copenhagen 1970 (1992: ISBN 87-00-13416-3 )
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger: defendant. GyldendaI, Copenhagen 1964
- Gottfried Benn: Glasblæseren og andre essays. Sansoni, Copenhagen 1964
- Hermann Broch: De skyldløse. Gyledendal, Copenhagen 1960
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Udvalgte defendant. Part 1 Wivel, Copenhagen 1949
- Franz Werfel: Kunstens kald. Realism og det Indre live. Menneskets reneste lyksalighed. Wivel, Copenhagen 1948