Harald Bergstedt
Novelist, Film story contributor
1877 – 1965
Who was Harald Bergstedt?
Harald Bergstedt was a Danish writer, novelist, playwright and a poet.
Author of the genre and satire verses.
His social novel Alexandersen became a satire on a bourgeois culture.
His novel "Factory of the Saints" 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. 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.
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- Born
- Aug 10, 1877
Køge - Also known as
- Alfred Harald Petersen
- Nationality
- Denmark
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 19, 1965
Copenhagen
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on July 23, 2013
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