TY - JOUR
TI - Between Munich, Paris and Aulestad. Albert Langen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in the Memories of Bjørnstjerne Albert Bjørnson-Langen, Son and Grandson
AU - Kłańska, Maria
TI - Between Munich, Paris and Aulestad. Albert Langen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in the Memories of Bjørnstjerne Albert Bjørnson-Langen, Son and Grandson
AB - The paper deals with the figures of Albert Langen, the German publisher and editor of the Simplicissimus magazine, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, the Norwegian classic: poet, dramatist and novelist, as seen through the eyes of Bjørnstjerne Albert Bjørnson-Langen, an architect, who was a son of the former and grandson of the latter. He was born in 1898 in Munich and published his recollections under the title Aulestad tur-retur in 1981. He reminisces the fine Norwegian cosmopolitan society from before the First World War and especially his father, he did know not very well because of the separation of his parents, and his famous grandfather, who possessed the farm Aulestad where the author and his brother spent the happiest days of their childhood. The book straddles autobiography, memoirs and a family chronicle, offering a subjective but very rich picture of the “world of yesterday”. My article concentrates on the image of the two famous ancestors of B. A. Bjørnson-Langen and of his relations with them.
VL - 2020
IS - 4 (2020)
PY - 2020
SP - 79
EP - 93
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/filologiskt-smorgasbord/article/zwischen-munchen-paris-und-aulestad-albert-langen-und-bjornstjerne-bjornson-in-den-erinnerungen-ihres-sohnes-und-enkels-bjornstjerne-albert-bjornson-langen
KW - Bjørnson (Nowegian writer)
KW - Langen (German publisher)
KW - childhood
KW - memories – autobiography
KW - family chronicle
KW - Norway
KW - “world of yesterday” (before the First World War)