- Karl Friedrich Kurz
Karl Friedrich Kurz (
23 September 1878 –26 June 1962 ) was a Swiss/German/Norwegian novelist.Kurz was born near
Freiburg , Bremgarten,Markgräflerland inGermany . As a child he moved with his parents toBasel inSwitzerland . He wanted to be a painter and entered the academy inKarlsruhe .Coincidences made him a writer. He led a vagrant life with an extensive travelling activity in among others
East Asia andJapan before he settled inNorway where he wrote novels in German. He was influenced byKnut Hamsun and got inspiration from the nature and folk life in the fjords ofSogn andSunnfjord .His novels enjoyed great popularity in
Germany and were sold in great numbers. In 1934 he was awarded theGroßer Schillerpreis by theSchweizerischen Schillerstiftung in Zürich.He first lived in the area of
Solund , then nearVadheim inSognefjord before he in 1924 settled in Vårdal inDalsfjorden inSunnfjord . He lived there until he in 1950 left his family and moved to Nessjøen inFjell municipality atSotra inHordaland where he lived until his death in 1962, at 84 years of age.The papers he left behind when he died are mostly lost.
Karl Friedrich Kurz is buried at the churchyard at
Holmedal inDalsfjorden , Sunnfjord.Novels
Ten
novels and a number ofshort stories . Among others:*"Vom Nil zum Fujijama", (1910, his first book).
*"Kohana". Japanisches Liebesidyll. Huber. Frauenfeld and Leipzig (1910).
*"Mitternachtsonne und Nordlicht", (1914).
*"Herren vom Fjord", Westermann (1947) (Norwegian translation by Heidi Helle and Rolf Losnegård: "Herskap ved fjorden", - ISBN 978-82-7959-033-0)
*"Im Königreich Mjelvik", Westermann (1930).
*"Tyra,die Märcheninsel", (1935).
*"Der Sohn des Meeres", (1937).
*"Ein gesegneter Lügner", (1938).
*"Traum und Ziel ", Dt. Buch-Gemeinschaft (1940) which gave him 1934 "Grosser Schillerpreis der Schweizerischen Schillerstiftung".
*"Herr Erlings Magd", Westermann (1947).
*"Die Geisterkutsche", Westermann (1953)Sources
*Karl Friedrich Kurz: "Herskap ved fjorden". Translation from German to Norwegian by Heidi Helle and Rolf Losnegård.
*Norvald Tveitt: "Fra gull til grønne skoger" - ("From gold to green forests" (about [http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Grant_Lea Erik Grant Lea] )).
*Interviews with local people in Vårdal, Sunnfjord and Nessjøen, Sotra v/ Frode Inge Helland.See also
Erik Grant Lea
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