The New Yorker Cartoonist Amy Kurzweil will never read all three volumes and 1,928 pages of On What Matters, but she knows how to draw them. 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. But its a sweep in miniaturea catastrophe in a box. For some, mucking things up can be an assertion of will; negative attention is better than none. [11] I lbet af de fem r blev Ditlevsen narkoman og vejede kun 30 kilo, da hun i 1949 blev indlagt til afvnning p et psykiatrisk hospital. Her childhood experiences were the focal points of her work. She passes the time watching people walk their dogs. Skt. That law, I said, kissing him, gives us the right to hurt other people.. 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. 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. They dance, and fall drunkenly into bed. Im so tired of my long search for this person that I feel like crying with relief, now that Ive reached my goal. Hes putting water in the syringe, she says. Mrz 1976 ebenda) war eine dnische Schriftstellerin. His mind remains impenetrable, andmaybe because it is impenetrable to him, toohe seems just as bewildered and trapped as Tove. HELLE Rederiet Limfjorden 2018 IVS A20 Mallemukken H 84 Guldborg v/Lars A. Hansen A59 . document.getElementById( "ak_js_3" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 1963-2023 NYREV, Inc. All rights reserved. She doesnt know whose baby it is, Carls or Ebbes. You get pregnant just walking through a draft, her friend and confidante Lise says some weeks later. July 13, 2022. ), 2006-09, Gyldendal. 2023 Cond Nast. Opholdet p Sct. The room expands to a radiant hall. Da jeg var barn. His social class is far above her parents, but he doesnt condescend to themunlike Viggo F., who talked to them in a loud voice as if they were slightly deaf. Tove Ditlevsen Digte gteskab (er) Tove Ditlevsen skrev rigtig mange digte. Shes a woman. Tove Ditlevsen er med sine knivskarpe, prunklse og rlige skildringer af kvindeliv en ener i dansk litteratur. Hans Rock p Bakken. Helle Thygesen (born Munk) in MyHeritage family trees (srensen Web Site) view all 13 Immediate Family Erik Thygesen husband Ebbe Munk father Tove Ditlevsen mother Viggo Frederik Mller mother's ex-husband Carl Theodor Ryberg mother's ex-husband Private half sibling Private half sibling Private half sibling Private half sibling Private half sibling kommer til udtryk i romanen "Gift" fra 1971. The party is even more than usually drunken and unbuttoned, and Tove nonchalantly goes to bed with somebody named Carla young scientist whos recently gotten a medical degree. Below the picture it said, Woman awaiting her husband home from the sea. Sometimes my mother would suddenly catch sight of me and follow my glance up to the picture I found so tender and sad. Helle Nordstrm heno@fyens.dk . Min barndom i 40-erne. Is this love? Ditlevsen is fourteen and has had to quit school to help support her family. There are also the masterless dogs that run around confused between peoples legs, apparently without enjoying their freedom. When hope had been crushed like that, my mother would get dressed with violent and irritated movements, as if every piece of clothing were an insult to her. Its because the author, who died by her own hand in 1976, when she was fifty-eight, makes profound and exciting art out of estrangement. Apr 12, 1949, Digtsamlingen "Krlighedsdigte" udkom Apr 12, 1954, Digtsamlingen, Udvalgte digte, udkom Hitler is now chancellor of Germany, sending seismic tremors throughout Europe, and Tove is renting a freezing-cold room with tissue-thin walls. 09:53. And then there is Ebbe, who makes Ditlevsen feel loved for the first time. . She tells Ebbe theres someone elsethough thats hardly accurateand she and two-year-old Helle leave, moving into an inferno with Carl that is to last five years. 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. . Viggo F. has reason to be concerned, given his anti-Nazi writings, but Hitlers evil shadow or no, Toves collection of poems rolls off the press, and Youth concludes with her incredulous joy at the fact that she herself has produced a physical volume of the sort that sustained her during her arduous childhoodand with her desire to savor the object alone, before she shows it to Viggo F. The Danish title of the third volume of the trilogy is Gift, which means (stunningly) both married and poison and has been translated (stunningly) as Dependency.. She writes: Some of the dogs have a short leash thats jerked impatiently every time they stop. Mr. Krogh has offered, not very credibly, to introduce Ruth to somebody who can give her a job as a chorus girl, and Ruth brings her friend along as a bonus to both Tove and Mr. Krogh: a cash source for the young girl, another young girl for the cash source. What happened? If this page is not redirecting you to a new page, you either have not JavaScript enabled or cookies enabled - both is a requirement. They marry and have a child, Helle. But higher educationor high schoolwas not an option if you were penniless, like Ditlev. But before the marriage can take place, things of great import are happening. Get civilized. But how on earth is she going to find anybody whos interested in reading or publishing her poems? She is always as beautiful, confusing, and monumental as the world. The warm, nurturing bachelor Viggo F. was quite different from the husband Viggo F., who is brittle, reduced, preoccupied, and remarkably tightfisted. Part of the work of becoming an adult is figuring out how to reconcile your vision of your parents with who they actually are. 09 okt. Parret flyttede til Birkerd, fordi Andreasen opdagede, at hans kone havde genoptaget sit misbrug. Reading her verse aloud, he laughs and mocks her words. When Ditlevsen is around twenty, she takes up with a man named Piet, who, like Mller, is privileged. 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. I 1980-erne indspillede musikeren Anne Linnet en plade med egne melodier til Ditlevsens digte, Barndommens Gade. Ditlevwas born on November 3 1880, in Thorup, Skallerup Sogn. Although Toves parents dont fight, they know how to wound each other in sensitive spots. [2] "Barndommen er lang og smal som en kiste, og man kan ikke slippe ud af den ved egen hjlp," sagde hun. 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. One evening, after Ditlevsen quarrels with her brothershe is not yet a teen-agerEdvin discovers the album where she keeps her poetry. Am I the only reader who clutched her head here? 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. Helle Nordstrm , heno@fyens.dk Annonce. For a time, life with Ebbe, Helle, and her writing is good. Sure, I said immediately, because a child would bind Carl to me even more, and I wanted him with me for the rest of my life. I love passive women, Carl comments, somewhat redundantly. . [ 2] I sin diktning har hon hmtat inspiration frn sitt eget liv och utvecklat en djup psykologisk insikt i den moderna kvinnans splittrade liv. [10] I 1945 mdte hun lgen Carl Theodor Ryberg (1918-1962, selvmord i hjemmet i Rungsted) til en fest. He wants to talk to you. She finds Viggo F., as hes called, warm, knowledgeable, magnificent, even handsome. Tove Ditlevsen - Myte og liv af Karen Syberg (1997) Biografien, der tager dig hele vejen rundt om digteren og mennesket Tove Ditlevsen. Demerol, he tells her. she wants to know. Ditlevsen was married (and divorced) four times. And, like a dog, Ditlevsen will do whatever it takes to get what her rapidly developing habit requires. Ditlevsen begins to spend time with Mller, whose sitting room is dominated by the color greengreen curtains, green walls, green drinking glasses. But my mother burst out laughing and it sounded like dozens of paper bags filled with air exploding all at once. He was the son of director Paul Munck (d. 1947) and Meta f. Iversen (d. 1953). I 1954 fik de snnen Peter Andreasen, og Ditlevsen huskede rene i Birkerd som gode. But during the 1960s and 1970s she also suffered episodes that landed her in psychiatric hospitals and survived various suicide attempts. 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. Tove Ditlevsen voksede op i Hedebygade p Vesterbro[1] som datter af Kirstine Alfrida Mundus (1890-1965) og fyrbder Ditlev Nielsen Ditlevsen (1880-1972). Bleak, honest, wryly funny: the Danish author's three-part memoir, Childhood, Youth, Dependency charts Tove Ditlevsen's emergence from a working-class corner of Copenhagen to becoming one of its best-known literary stars. (In this world of emotional deprivation, kindness is usually qualified, if its offered at all.) [3], Tove Ditlevsen overtog som Familiejournalens brevkasseredaktr efter Edith Rodes dd i 1956 og fortsatte at besvare lserbrevene frem til sin dd. Troen er ikke en klippe Jens Rosendal,1987/Jens Nielsen,1988. In the fifty-eight years of her life, . 2018 kl. But theyve always been hard. Vi anbefaler du forsger at genindlse siden. [5] - og derved lod hende forst, at hun i forldrenes jne kun havde vret en udgiftspost, de nu var fri for. Both books also accelerate from zero to sixty before anyone has a chance to buckle up. Imagine what Fassbinder would have made of such lines as the following, which close Dependency: There were five doctors in the town, and Victor visited every one of them right away and forbade them to have anything to do with me. Arkivfoto: Jrgen Hansen. Oh, well. (All the partners she describes in Dependency are upper-class and educated.) Hun kunne derefter ikke tnke p andet end at f mere af stoffet; forlod Munk, giftede sig den 26. november 1945 med Ryberg p Kbenhavns Rdhus, og fdte den 16. juli 1946 Michael Ryberg p en fdeklinik i Kbenhavn. Set in his ways, he needs his own space and sleeps in a different room. Nunnally and Goldman have done an excellent job with Ditlevsens strong rhythms and the dramatic sweep of her story. The author presents herself to us with very little editorializing and, it seems, very little varnish. FEBRUAR 2023 U G E A V I S E N K E R T E M I N D E 11 Hvem dumper ildelugtende affald p stranden? Unlike Karl Ove Knausgaard and many other recent memoirists, Ditlevsen doesnt have a larger philosophy about pain or death; she is drawn to the flatness of facts and the way they mix with dreams. Its a wonderful room, where all the furniture is red plush. Tove succeeds so well in faking a persistent earache that even when the specialist who has been monitoring the complaint refuses to treat her for it, Carl apparently feels justified in hiring a crank, who agreesbecause he hates the previous doctorto operate on the perfectly healthy ear. He adores Toves poetry; hes wanted to meet her for years; in her opinion, hes perfect, hes beautiful; shes never believed in love at first sight before, but now she does. . To this end, Ditlev refuses to allow Edvin to quit his car-painting apprenticeship, although Edvin hates the job passionately and the cellulose lacquer is destroying his lungs. Not only have I failed to make my young self as interesting as the strangers I have written about, but I have withheld my affection. I started writing again, and whenever reality got under my skin, I bought a bottle of red wine and shared it with Victor. Its not so surprising, then, that one of the first works Ditlevsen published, as a teen-ager, was a poem titled To My Dead Child: I never heard your little voice.Your pale lips never smiled at me.And the kick of your tiny feetIs something I will never see. In company and with artists, he seems to remain the original man, but while he has a coterie of worshipful young admirers, he has his share of detractors, too. 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. De flyttede sammen i en tovrelses lejlighed p Tartinisvej og fik datteren Helle Munk (1943-2008), der mtte tages med tang. 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. You cant be disappointed without first having hoped. One day, she goes to visit the old man and finds that his building has been demolished. Her childhood taught her not to share her feelings; she cannot express her dissatisfaction or her fears to Ebbe. 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. Tove ditlevsen ebbe munk Ditlev was born on November 3in Thorup, Skallerup Sogn. Among other parallels Mundus is, like the author, a famous writer, and like the author she is suffering from marital problems as well as the inability to work thats known rather emptily as writers block; Mundus was the maiden name of Ditlevsens mother (who once urged her daughter to use it as a nom de plume); and Ditlevsen herself endured several institutionalizations. 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. Vi forberedte jo ogs en god revy til skoleafslutning, og da var jeg meget aktiv og skrev nogle sange med musikholdet. Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest. has obtained a high tableand theres a white sheet over it. By the time of her death at 58 in 1976, she had published 29 books, having published her first poetry collection while . Kaj Munk,1943/ Egil Harder,1945. 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. [I]f I hadnt looked at the picture, she wouldnt have noticed me. Fdselsskaderne, Ditlevsen blev pfrt, delagde gteskabet. Not long into the relationship with Carl, when Tove has become pregnant with Michael, she receives a spectral visit from Carls friend John. Born at the end of the first World War amid an economic depression, Ditlevsen grew up in a hardscrabble working-class neighborhood of Copenhagen, lived through the Nazi occupation of her country during World War II, cycled through unhealthy sexual . Her admiration of other girls is also a sustaining force. Her parents allow her to go to middle school, where she will be among better people, and for a while she can stave off the terrifying prospect of fending for herself in the wide world. Annonce. He writes back to say that he will publish her. . Over and over, Ditlevsen makes small but decisive steps toward building a life for herself as an artist. . Like all other young girls, she says, I want to get married and have children and a home of my own.. 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. 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