Harald Bergstedt
Harald Bergstedt (Harald Alfred Petersen, Køge, 10 August 1877 - Copenhagen, 19 September 1965) was a Danish writer, novelist, playwright and a poet.
Author of the genre and satire verses (collections: Song of the province / Sange fra provinsen, 1913—1921; Wide Wings, 1919; Songs for all the Winds, 1927).
His social novel Alexandersen (1918) became a satire on a bourgeois culture.
His novel "Factory of the Saints" (1919, Russian translation 1924) became a prototype for Yakov Protazanov's 1930 film St. Jorgen's Day — a satire on the church and its ministers' hypocrisy.
Before the Second World War, he was a social democrat and was an immensely popular poet. Several still popular Danish children's songs have lyrics by Bergstedt ("Hør den lille stær", "Solen er så rød, mor",[1] "Jeg ved en lærkerede"). In 1942-1945 during the German occupation of Denmark, he worked for a Nazi newspaper in Denmark, "Fædrelandet", and in 1946 was sentenced two years in prison for "cooperation with the Nazis".
In 1948, he published a verse collection named Songs in the Jail with his thoughts on his life and works.
References
- ↑ Solen er så rød, mor at Danish Wikisource
External links
- (Danish) Harald Bergstedt works
- (Russian) short bio of Harald Bergstedt quoting Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- (Danish) about Harald Bergstedt
- (Danish) "Danmarks børn lad sangen klinge", lyrics by Harald Bergstedt
- Harald Bergstedt at the Internet Movie Database
- Harald Bergstedt at Find a Grave