Tove Ditlevsen und Victor Andreasen (1951) . Separated from Ebbe, Ditlevsen manages to finish a book of short stories, but she no longer has any desire to write. Although their subterfuges are transparent enough, he seems at times almost to believe that she is really in pain, that she really cant sleep, that shes really only taking what he prescribes, though she has learned to forge prescriptions for methadone, to which she has also become addicted. A slightly creepy fairy-tale mist, courtesy of the Brothers Grimm, clings to the Copenhagen neighborhood of Vesterbro where Tove grows up. Will Viggo F. marry me when the whole world is burning? I carried the cups out to the kitchen, and inside of me long, mysterious words began to crawl across my soul like a protective membrane. I den periode kom jeg i skole hver dag" (Johanne 16 r) Bertil: She is invited to a party held by a group of students in their twenties, where it seems a foregone conclusion that she will hook up with their most glamorous member, Ebbe. Luck is the only real resource for young people whose ambition is in no way matched by privilege, and Tove turns out to have a few lucky encounters as she wanders through the forest of things arbitrarily chosen by lifejobs, habitations, boyfriends, and so onthat must be gotten through. Her mother shows up one day when Carl is out and sits by her bed: She takes my hand and pats it. Der er nu vedtaget et st ordensregler, der skal sikre, at flest mulig fr en god oplevelse samtidig med, at der tages hensyn til naturen. But my mother burst out laughing. Being an audience is one way to be loved. Youth is set in politically significant timesHitler has come to power in Germany, and some Danes would love to bring his brand of fascism homebut the outside world doesnt carry much weight in Ditlevsens consciousness. I 1980-erne indspillede musikeren Anne Linnet en plade med egne melodier til Ditlevsens digte, Barndommens Gade. In it, Nors describes Ditlevsenwho was born in Vesterbro, a working-class district in Copenhagen, in 1917, and killed herself at age fifty-eight in 1976, after many years battling depression and . Tove Ditlevsen var en dansk forfatterinde og en af de mest markante litterre personligheder i det 20. rhundrede. He can help out with her problem, he says, but theyd make a fine childa scientist and a poet! gtemndene i hendes romaner blev gradvis "et rent orgie af Victors mest ubehagelige egenskaber," skrev hun selv. Tove Ditlevsen er med sine knivskarpe, prunklse og rlige skildringer af kvindeliv en ener i dansk litteratur. Ditlevsen was married (and divorced) four times. When Tove discovers that shes two months pregnant again, she decides that an abortion is imperative. Her childhood taught her not to share her feelings; she cannot express her dissatisfaction or her fears to Ebbe. England has declared war on Germany, and I stand with thousands of other silent people and follow the reader-board headlines flashing on Politikens building. [8] Hun brd ud af sit gteskab, flyttede ind i et pensionat p boulevarden - og blev forladt af Piet Hein, som dog hilste udgivelsen af Man gjorde et barn fortrd med et gruk i Politiken: Den 12. september 1942 giftede Tove Ditlevsen sig p Kbenhavns Rdhus med den jvnaldrende polit. Tove has envisioned her place from the start: she has a vague desire to break into high society someday, but that is subsidiary to her fierce drive to write poems and become known for them. How in the world did you two ever find each other? Mr. Krogh exclaims, and dismisses out of hand Toves viability as a chorus girl. Fdselsskaderne, Ditlevsen blev pfrt, delagde gteskabet. Childhood (which was published in Danish in 1967 and is translated here by Tiina Nunnally) opens with the five-year-old Tove living with her parents, Alfrida and Ditlev, and her older brother, Edvin, in a small apartment in Vesterbro, the red-light district of Copenhagen. Ditlevsen wastes no time in asking for Mllers address and sending him some poems. The tech company Wirecard was embraced by the German lite. Although she can express a kind of self-governing feminism, especially when it comes to her work, a profound passivity often sets in. Alfrida is unhappy with the life she has made with her husband, but what can she do? Ditlevsen is fourteen and has had to quit school to help support her family. Helle was baptized in 1769. Men mest af alt var det en krlighedserklring - politiken.dk, "Mitt ville hjerte Kari Bremnes Rockipedia", https://da.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tove_Ditlevsen&oldid=11342582, Breve 1969-1975 til Mogens Knudsen, Gyldendal. By the time of her death at 58 in 1976, she had published 29 books, having published her first poetry collection while . Hilsen til forrssolen Benny Andersen,1981/ Poul Dissing,1981 . Adapting to accept life as it is. The book is as propulsive as the most tightly plotted thriller; even when you want to put it down, it seems to adhere to your hands. When they get tired of beating her, they attack each other with bottles and broken chair legs until, invariably, the police come, to the disapproval of Toves parents, who think Rapunzels parents should be allowed to kill each other in peace if they want to.. Clichs about poverty are absent, and no scene is distorted or obscured by the usual sediment of consolatory and sentimental attitudes. Ditlevsens early obsession with writing may not have given her insight into that process, but she did learn how to use language to describe the rejecting force of Alfridas various gripes and dismissals. Ditlevsen writes: In the morning there was hope. The sun must have shone sometimes in Denmark before and during the Second World War, but the atmosphere in The Copenhagen Trilogy is damp, dark, and flowerless. He wants to talk to you. She builds a literature of disaster, brick by brick, entombing within it all the people who couldnt love her and whom she couldnt love. Carl and Tove also, incredibly, take in a baby that Carl fathered with another woman, to keep her from being put up for adoption.). My mother doesnt say anything, because during the day she and I are often over in Kettys living room drinking coffee or hot chocolate. I dont regret what I did, she writes, but in the dark, tarnished corridors of my mind there is a faint impression, like a childs footprints in damp sand.. News about upcoming issues, contributors, special events, online features, and more. Ebbe Munck. Kerteminde Ugeavis. I Politiken skrev hun om jeblikket: "Den uendelige lykke ved aldrig mere at skulle se noget menneske i verden." The most conspicuous difference between The Faces and The Copenhagen Trilogy is tone. Up until this point, the authors talents have made the fairly banal disorders of her life riveting, but now things take a turn, and no horror movie Ive ever seenhowever potent its imagery or metaphorhas come near the rest of the book for sheer terror. Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest. . Tove and Victor married in 1951, as soon as she could divorce Carl, and they stayed married for a good long timeuntil 1973, three years before her suicide. Tove Ditlevsen gteskaber i 1940 blev tove gift for frste gang med manden viggo f mller, men lgteskabet holdte kun i et par r. Ditlev, who was ten years Alfridas senior, had been sent to work as a shepherd when he was six. You have good veins, he says. As a young, suddenly free, suddenly celebrated writer from a working-class background, Tove has an alluring luster. She finds Viggo F., as hes called, warm, knowledgeable, magnificent, even handsome. The implacable future is at the threshold, and the distress and sheer peculiarity of childhood are burning off, leaving Tove with only an ashy residue of warmth and comfort: I read in my poetry album while the night wanders past the windowand, unawares, my childhood falls silently to the bottom of my memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. Nunnally and Goldman have done an excellent job with Ditlevsens strong rhythms and the dramatic sweep of her story. marts1976smst.) [5] - og derved lod hende forst, at hun i forldrenes jne kun havde vret en udgiftspost, de nu var fri for. She finally has a private place to write, though the noise of the typewriter is painful to her exquisitely sensitive landlady, Mrs. Suhr, who rhapsodizes over the picture of Hitler she has hanging in the living room and the music of his speeches blasting away on the radio. So it was impossible for me to get the drug, and slowly I adapted to accept life as it was. Mange af Ditlevsens romaner, er mere eller mindre selvbiografiske, og skildrer episoder fra hendes hrde liv, med stoffer, skilsmisser og psykiske problemer, hvilket bl.a. Soon to be a published poet, Ditlevsen is working at the State Grain Office. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. And yet she has a counterbalancing aversion to political engagement. We have our own method for teaching that to children, you know. My mother moves a little bit away from me and says faintly, She learned it by herself, its not our fault. And like many mothers girls who empathize with their mothers suffering, Tove experiences in herself Alfridas shame, whether she is cause or witness. . Others have a long leash and their masters wait patiently whenever an exciting smell detains the dog. For some, mucking things up can be an assertion of will; negative attention is better than none. Ogs Piet Hein var med i kredsen og blev snart kreste med Tove Ditlevsen. The humiliation is great, but Ditlevsens shame turns to pity when Edvin breaks down and starts to cry; he hates the life as a tradesman that has been mapped out for him, and his parents are not sympathetic to his plight. Tove Ditlevsen, som jeg interesserede mig meget for, og det var spndende. [31] [32], I 2015 blev Ditlevsens liv og vrker fortolket af teaterkollektivet Sort Samvittighed, under forestillingen Tove!Tove!Tove! The world doesnt count me as anything and every time I get hold of a corner of it, it slips out of my hands again, she muses. Helle Kryger , hhy@fyens.dk. This article has been updated to include new information about Tove Ditlevsens first published work. It isn't until recent years that her brilliance has finally been acknowledged, and her memoirs, The Copenhagen Trilogy, containing the novels Childhood, Youth and Dependency, hasover forty years after her deathgiven her an international breakthrough. Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen, fdd 14 december 1917 i Kpenhamn, [ 1] dd 7 mars 1976 i Kpenhamn, var en dansk frfattare, poet och journalist. [ 3] Hon r sedan 2015 en del av Dansk Litteraturs Kanon. Paradoxically, the novels explicit portrait of Mundus sheds more light on some of the concrete matters that bedeviled Ditlevsen than does her strictly autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy. Mller opmuntrede hende til at stifte Unge Kunstneres Klub, hvor hun mdte ligesindede som Sonja Hauberg og Morten Nielsen; desuden Ester Nagel og Halfdan Rasmussen, som blev gift med hinanden (og sidstnvnte efterfulgte senere Mller som redaktr af Vild Hvede). He does. Vesterbro var et kvarter med stor arbejdslshed og fattigdom, prget af mellemkrigstidens verdensomspndende konomiske krise, som ogs formede Ditlevsens opvkst p 4. sal i baghuset i Hedebygade 30A. The important thing is her writing. At least through her work she can place a veil between myself and reality.. Sort Samvittighed udgav senere sangene fra forestillingen, i et album der ogs hed Tove!Tove!Tove! Her doctor urges her never to see Carl again, and she returns home to children who are strangers to her and immediately meets a new, caring lover named Victor. When Ditlevsen is around twenty, she takes up with a man named Piet, who, like Mller, is privileged. But higher educationor high schoolwas not an option if you were penniless, like Ditlev. It goes right through your skin like a steambath. She offers Tove a cup of coffee, and although Tove hasnt had anything to eat or drink all day, she doesnt want to sit under Hitlers picture: It seems to me that then hell notice me and find a means of crushing me. To do so would be to reveal vulnerability or need, and thus risk the kind of rejection she got from Alfrida. The latest revelation is Tove Ditlevsen, a Danish poet and fiction writer who I'd never even heard of until a few months ago. Like a number of dispassionate, poetic moderniststhe writers Jean Rhys and Octavia Butler, say, or the visual artists Alice Neel and Diane ArbusDitlevsen was marked, wounded, by her own sharp intelligence. Being silent is another. His occupation was Grdmand. In The Faces, set and written during the worldwide political and social upheaval of 1968, Mundus hallucinates Gitte, her young housekeeper, saying accusingly: You quoted Hemingway. Mest lste. The worlds fragile situation fills her with horror and fear, but its specifically fear of the effect it might have on her personal life. husassistent). Like many mothers girls who have scary, unpredictable mothers, Tove became especially adept, especially early, at concealing her true selfa skill that eventually got a stranglehold on her. But theres one thing she does not have to conceal from her mother: her intelligence, which Alfrida tries, poignantly, to leverage into a bit of special standing. Although unemployment is high, Tove finds a succession of jobs that range from the preposterous to, eventually, several office jobs that she likes. Demerol, he tells her. But that world of childhood, colder than the real world, is about to come to a close. The Copenhagen Trilogy and The Faces are very different books, but they draw on the same materialDitlevsens lifeand both display a distinctive style; an uncanny vividness; a gift for conveying atmospheres and mental sensations and personalities with remarkable dispatch; the originality and deadpan, trapdoor humor of the significantly estranged; a startling frankness; and a terrible commotion of unresolved conflicts and torments. Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen (fdt 14. december 1917[1][note 1] i Kbenhavn, dd 7. marts 1976 smst.) These two intelligent people quickly become skilled at the unspoken collusion that enables Carl to persuade himself, or some part of himself, that Tove legitimately needs the Demerol it so benefits him to administer to her. Her outgoing friend Ruth introduces her to an old man named Mr. Krogh. The German occupation shades the books background as a faint air of desperation. The room expands to a radiant hall. Thats the kind of life I could thrive in. If addiction is the ninth circle of Toves hell, rehab is the tenth, and the months of excellent care she receives entail unspeakable and vividly described agony. Dont think yourself odd if, after reading the Danish writer Tove Ditlevsens romantic, spiritually macabre, and ultimately devastating collection of memoirs, The Copenhagen Trilogy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), you spend hours, if not days, in a reverie of alienation. I was rescued from my years of addiction, but ever since, the shadow of the old longing still returns faintly if I have to have a blood test, or if I pass a pharmacy window. Its hardly the response she was hoping for, but on the other hand its a serious one, and it resides in her mind as a distant, guiding star until one day by chance she sees in the newspaper that the editor has died. Which is fine with Ditlevsen: when she wakes up, she can get to work without interference. I mean therell be an empty pop bottle or a rusty bobby pin underfoot, the lake bottom oozes mud in a particularly nasty way, the outhouse smells, the woods look mangy. document.getElementById( "ak_js_3" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 1963-2023 NYREV, Inc. All rights reserved. Apr 12, 1949, Digtsamlingen "Krlighedsdigte" udkom Apr 12, 1954, Digtsamlingen, Udvalgte digte, udkom What happened? Perhaps what Edvin is crying over, too, is his sisters ability to find a haven in her imagination, one that may open a wide window onto a larger world. As it goes about its unique concoctions, nature is indifferent to the torments suffered by any individual. F or the four decades after the outbreak of the second world war, Tove Ditlevsen was one of Denmark's most famous and extravagantly tortured writers, whose many identities - dreamy working . He fills a syringe with a clear liquid. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. [15], Hun blev begravet fra Kristkirken p sin barndoms Vesterbro, og som folkekr digter blev hun fulgt til graven af henved tusind mennesker. Being young is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral, the author writes in Youth. You have to get through itit has no other meaning. And by implication, you have to get through it to somethingthe place thats waiting for you in the world. Oh, is that it, he says quietly, rubbing his unshaven chin. A dutiful joylessness seems in fact to have been rather a specialty of the melancholy, serious, unusually moralistic Ditlev, though the burden falls mainly on Toves wonderfully promising older brother, Edvin, who seems destined to have a future as a skilled workerwhich, according to the author, ensures a future of cloth instead of newspaper on the table and eating with a knife and fork. . Tove Ditlevsen Digte gteskab (er) Tove Ditlevsen skrev rigtig mange digte. Tove Ditlevsen (* 14. Mange kilo dde blmuslinger var dumpet, og nu kan en kommunal medarbejder komme til at Der opstod desvrre en fejl, da vi forsgte at hente siden. England has declared war on Germany. When Tove turns six, Alfrida enrolls her in school, proudly telling the rude, witchy principal that her daughter can read and write without mistakes. The chilly response is Thats too bad. Tove gets a divorce and marries Carl and his syringe. There are no inert sentences, nothing that feels forced or written for effect. To r fr havde hun forsgt selvmord i Rude Skov, men af skrk for naturen lagde hun sig i udkanten af skoven, hvor hun blev fundet af en hundelufter. By the time Tove Ditlevsen committed suicide in 1976, she was one of Denmarks most popular and acclaimed writers. I 1954 fik de snnen Peter Andreasen, og Ditlevsen huskede rene i Birkerd som gode. The writing poems part is no obstacle. When she retreats from him emotionallyin order to attend a literary dinner that includes Evelyn Waugh, whose sharp pen she admiresCarl shows up, uninvited, to pull her away. Geni requires JavaScript! Hes also a big drinker at twenty-five and studying economics, in which he has no real interest, with no degree in sight. Its unclear whether the child is Ebbes or Carls, and Tove definitely does not want a child with Carl! There are some shiny instruments on the bookshelf next to the table. Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, to a working-class family who continually fails to understand Ditlevsen's desire to be a poet, much like nearly every other person in her . Ghita Nrby. . Tove married Ebbe Munk on month day 1942, at age 24 at marriage place. [2] "Barndommen er lang og smal som en kiste, og man kan ikke slippe ud af den ved egen hjlp," sagde hun. Ebbe was born on January 31in Hng Hjskole. A wonderfully destabilizing writer, she admits to something that a more timid memoirist would never cop to: monstrous self-interest. His mind remains impenetrable, andmaybe because it is impenetrable to him, toohe seems just as bewildered and trapped as Tove. Cyclists in Copenhagen, 1948. At the theatre groups first gathering, she meets a beautiful young woman called Nina, and before long theyre spending evenings out together. But she describes the mortal struggle with relapses during that marriage, when she returns to writing prescriptions for herself and hunting down doctors who will give her Demerol. Ones heart sinks at the close of Childhood, which sets the tone for whats to come. . The hospital refuses to provide anything stronger than aspirin, and Carl has to sneak into the building to give her a shot of the Demerol for which she has sacrificed her hearing. But when their daughter, Helle, is born, between Toves nursing, child-rearing, and writing, theres just not quite enough love or attention left for Ebbe, and however hard the two adults struggle, they cant figure out how to reweight the scales. I feel happy and loved for the first time in my life, the author writes. One cant comfortably premise ones life on this great void in human understanding, but a memoir that accommodates it is bracing, as well as profoundly unsettling. There are also the masterless dogs that run around confused between peoples legs, apparently without enjoying their freedom. She is always as beautiful, confusing, and monumental as the world. " Childhood " (which was published in Danish in 1967 and is translated here by Tiina Nunnally) opens with the. He says it without reproach.. . Dreaming of words and how to put them together sustains Ditlevsen. Between the drugs and withdrawal shes almost always sick. Throughout the trilogy, Ditlevsen tells stories about being brokenand breaking otherswith the utmost control. 21 jun. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Will Hitlers evil shadow fall over Denmark? To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Shed soared out of poverty, and all told, shed published about thirty booksprimarily collections of poetry but also novels, memoirs, stories, and childrens books. Annonce. I started writing again, and whenever reality got under my skin, I bought a bottle of red wine and shared it with Victor. 08:00. HELLE Rederiet Limfjorden 2018 IVS A20 Mallemukken H 84 Guldborg v/Lars A. Hansen A59 . Tove pays to have a house built that has plenty of room for the children and for a remarkably kind and unsuspecting housekeeper, Jabbe. I 1975 indspillede Mathilde Bondo solopladenPigesindmed tekster afTove Ditlevsenog musik af Lasse Helner. In 1939, Mller helps publish a volume of Ditlevsens poems, titled Girl-Soul. After a courtship that feels more like an adoption, she marries him and moves in with him. I have a painful, sinking feeling in my stomach. One day, Carl asks her when her divorce will be finalized: Anytime, I said, figuring that once I was married to him it would be even easier to get him to give me shots. (In this world of emotional deprivation, kindness is usually qualified, if its offered at all.) All rights reserved. But my mother burst out laughing and it sounded like dozens of paper bags filled with air exploding all at once. .See how I kiss your icy hand,happy to be with you yet awhile,silently I kiss you, weeping not,though the tears are burning in my throat. But it is understood that her education is to end with graduation from middle school and her confirmation, after which shes to find a job and pay her room and board at homeat least until shes allowed to move out at eighteen. Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) is one of the most loved and yet also literarily scorned writers in Danish literary history. Despite her bluntness on the page, no one in her life can know her. . Hes wearing a white lab coat, and he washes his hands and scrubs his nails, while he pleasantly asks me to make myself comfortable. Senere Carl Theodor Ryberg mellem 1945-50, og det lngste gteskab havde Ditlevsen med Victor Andreasen i rene 1951-1973. You know what, says her mother, that editorhe probably wants to marry you. And as amused as she is by her mothers fantasy, it occurs to Tove thatassuming hes singleshe herself has nothing against marrying him. A song, a poem, something soothing and rhythmic and immensely pensive. Shes a woman. Some of this was reported by the press, but it is elided in the book. The information readily available about her in English is oddly sketchy, and little of her work has been translated into English, but what we have includes her memoir, The Copenhagen Trilogy, and a novel, The Faces. The following day, having told Ebbe shes going to visit Lise, she arrives at Carls room for their appointment and sees that he. The reader of autobiographical material more or less expects allocations of blame, at least implicit ones, often neatly dovetailing with lurid confessionin other words, a satisfyingly simple, easily understood way to interpret a life, though nothing of that sort can be entirely accurate or honest. [10] I 1945 mdte hun lgen Carl Theodor Ryberg (1918-1962, selvmord i hjemmet i Rungsted) til en fest. (And, of course, if Toves hopes are crushed, she will be more like her mother, who can think only of herself.) Then something like love would have filled the whole world. Reading this, I thought of the cruel, glittering, and beautiful world of Veronika Voss (1982), one of the last films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, also a drug addict with an interest in power and degradation. She mails off a few poems to him and finally, finally a response arrives: Dear Tove Ditlevsen: Two of your poems are, to put it mildly, not good, but the third, To My Dead Child, I can use. She calls, and they arrange to meet. Some seven or eight years older than Alfrida, considerate, and socially connected, he is more accessible than Mr. Krogh. Theres some truth to the charge, she concedesand she certainly has gotten ahead, thanks to himbut there was more to the marriage than that. Ditlevsen begins to spend time with Mller, whose sitting room is dominated by the color greengreen curtains, green walls, green drinking glasses. I already have a very suitable husband, she says, and a lovely daughter. 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