Vilhelm Ekelund

Vilhelm Ekelund was born as the son of a blacksmith in Skåne, studied in Lund, published in 1900 his first book of poems Vårbris and lived from then on as a writer. In his early lyrical and impressionistic poems he worked most of his childhood in the countryside embossed experience. In Elegier ( 1903), his mature style shows influences of classical Greek poetry, Expressionism, and the Swedish and German Romanticism. The influence Platen was expressed not only in form but also in the turn to the topic of homosexual love. Soon found Ekelund, certainly because of its explicit treatment of this topic, no reader and a publisher more and listened for a while to write.

In 1908 he was sentenced to one month in prison for obstructing justice. In order to escape the prison, he went to Germany and later to Denmark into exile. In 1914 he married and became the father of a daughter. He returned to Sweden, and in 1921 he published his last book of poems. Ekelund's marriage and the move away from the topic of homosexuality were no withdrawal, but a conscious transformation of his ego. He stood, as to the last of his letters, and aphorisms is clear before the election of the heterosexual "transformation" or the destruction as a writer and as an individual.