Gustav Wied
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| Born | March 6, 1858 Branderslev, Denmark |
| Died | October 24, 1914 (aged 56) |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, playwright |
| Nationality | Danish |
Gustav Johannes Wied (March 6, 1858 - October 24, 1914) was a Danish writer.
The fifth of the eleven children of Carl August Wied and Catha Wied, Wied was born in Branderslev near Nakskov.
He is generally known as a critic of society and for using his writing against the establishment. The government had him imprisoned for 14 days in 1882 for a short story published in a newspaper.
His most well known work was Livsens Ondskab (1899), depicting a small Danish provincial town, with the customs official Knagsted in the role as a red-bearded satyrical Diogenes openly ridiculing the hypocrisies of the snobbish bourgeois inhabitants, and Emanual Thomsen as the tragic struggler, trying to obtain the funds to regain his ancestral farm. In Knagsted (1902) he created a sequel, letting Knagsted comment on contemporary fashionable society in the Bohemian bath resort of Karlsbad.
He eventually lost popularity and suffered from severe stomach aches. Badly affected by his condition and despondent, he committed suicide with an overdose of potassium cyanide in 1914.
[edit] Bibliography
Among his works are:
- En Hjemkomst (play) - 1889
- Silhuetter (shortstories) - 1891
- En Bryllupsnat (play) - 1892
- Barnlige Sjæle (shortstories) - 1893
- Slægten - 1898 (made in to a movie in 1978)
- Livsens ondskab - 1899 (made in to a TV-series in 1971, broadcasted in 1972)
- Thummelumsen (play) - 1901
- Skærmydsler - 1901
- Den gamle Pavillon (play) - 1902
- Knagsted - 1902
- Dansemus (play) - 1905
- Fædrene æde druer - 1908 (made into the movie Sort Høst in 1993)
- Circus Mundi (stories) - 1909
- Kærlighed - Fire Idyller (play) - 1909
- Ærtehalm (play) - 1909
- Pastor Sørensen og Co. - 1913
- Imellem Slagene (stories and a play) - 1914
- Digt og virkelighed (recollections) - 1914
English translations:
- Two Satyrical Dramas - (1999)
[edit] Literature
- John B.C. Watkins, The life and works of Gustav Wied, Ithaca, N.Y., 1944.
[edit] External links
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