Harald Bergstedt
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Harald Bergstedt (Harald Alfred Petersen, Køge, August 10, 1877 - Copenhagen, September 19, 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. Jorgens's Day — a satire on church and it's ministers hypocrisy.
In 1946 was sentenced two years in prison for the "cooperation with Nazi".
In 1948 published a verses collection named Songs in the Jail with his thought on his life and works.
[edit] External links
- Harald Bergstedt at IMDB
- (Danish) Harald Bergstedt works
- (Russian) short bio of Harald Bergstedt quoting Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- Harald Bergstedt at Find A Grave
- (Danish) about Harald Bergstedt
- (Danish) "Danmarks børn lad sangen klinge", lyrics by Harald Bergstedt
