Trygve Gulbranssen
Trygve Gulbranssen Emanuel ( born June 15, 1894 in Kristiania, † October 10, 1962 in Eidsberg ) was a Norwegian writer.
Life
Trygve Gulbranssen Oslo was born on the farm in Molstadgården Enebakkveien 39 in Vålerenga, a district of the then Kristiania, today. His parents were Christian Gulbrandsen (1863-1943) and Alette Gulbrandsen, nee Dahl ( 1863-1941 ). He had two older brothers, Birger and Alfred, and three younger sisters, Camilla, Ragnhild Margrethe and Tora Elvira.
His father Christian, a trained carpenter and carpenter earned with the housing in the emerging Kristiania his money, but his small business came to the turn of the century in economic difficulties, so that Trygve spent his childhood in rather modest circumstances. Early on, the boy had to work as an errand boy for the dealers of the neighborhood to supplement the family income. After leaving school, he started with 14 years in the office of the Actieselskapet Excelsior glue factory, where he remained for five years. After that, he played with various professions his livelihood. He worked as a sports journalist since 1918, before he made his own as an entrepreneur two years later.
On November 30, 1928 Trygve Gulbranssen married at Trinity Church ( Trefoldighetskirken ) to Oslo Lilly Ragna Haneborg. His wife came from the rural community Øymark Fylke in Østfold. The young couple moved into first a modest two-room apartment in the Oslo district Ullevål, after the birth of their first child, daughter Ragna, they moved into a much larger apartment at the Vestre Aker Tyrihansveien 22 in the district. In 1933 was her second child, son Per, born. During this time, Trygve worked as a journalist, he began in the evenings with his first literary work.
After the commercial success of his books, it could be the family in the summer of 1935 afford to pull Blindern in a spacious town villa in Eventyrveien 40 in the district.
With the outbreak of war in Norway, he gave his occupation as a wholesaler in Oslo, to retire to his estate at Eidsberg and there to work solely as a freelance writer.
International who became known for great fame for his Bjorndal trilogy, which was translated into over 30 languages and is one of the greatest popular success of Norwegian fiction in the subsequent period.
Works
The published in two parts, German language edition of Bjorndal trilogy (and eternally sing the woods, The Heritage of Bjorndal ) appeared in 1935 and 1936 at the Georg Müller Verlag, Munich. They belonged for a long time the best-selling books on the German market. In the postwar period the novels of the Vienna " Mundus film" with Gert Frobe, Maj -Britt Nilsson and Joachim Hansen were filmed in the lead roles. The first film ever sing And the Forests ( 1959) was awarded the 1961 Bambi as a business 's most successful film of the year 1960. The cinematic sequel, entitled The Heritage of Bjorndal was created in 1960.
The Bjorndal trilogy
- Og bakom synger skogene, 1933 ( Literally: " And in the background singing the woods " - German Title: " And forever sing the forests ", 1935)
- Det Blaser fra Dauingfjell, 1934 ( Literally: "It blows the wind from Totenberg ago " - German Title: " The Heritage of Bjorndal ", 1936)
- Ingen vei går utenom, 1935 ( Literally: "There is no other way " - German Title: " The Heritage of Bjorndal ", 1936)