Blixen, Karen
Karen Christentze Blixen-Finecke (født Dinesen), 1885-1962, forfatter ( pseudonym: Isak Dinesen)
Født: 17.4.1885
Gift: 1914 Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke
Skilt 1925
Død: 7.9.1962
Lokationer i Skagen
Kokholms Hotel
Brøndums Hotel
Skagen Hotel (Ikke det nuværende Skagen Hotel, men det som lå på parkeringspladsen overfor)
Biografi i relation til Skagen
Faderen Wilhelm Dinesen var af jysk godsejerslægt; moderen Ingeborg Westenholz (1856-1939) var barnebarn af den københavnske storkøbmand A.N. Hansen.
I 1914 giftede Karen Dinesen sig i Afrika med sin svenske halvfætter baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke. Sammen drev de en kaffefarm Britisk Østafrika (senere Kenya). Efter mange års økonomisk skranten måtte farmen sælges i 1931.
Karen Blixen, der i 1925 var blevet skilt fra Bror Blixen, vendte tilbage til sit barndomshjem Rungstedlund i Nordsjælland. Her færdiggjorde hun de fortællinger, hun var begyndt på i Afrika. Hun skrev på engelsk og debuterede 1934 i USA med Seven Gothic Tales under pseudonymet Isak Dinesen.
Skagen (fortælling af Bent Hardervig)
Vinteren 1936-37 på Kokholm Hotel i Kandestederne - netop den vinter blev meget hyggelig, og samtidig meget spændende, på grund af jævnlige besøg af enkefru Dinesens datter.
Fru Dinesen, Ingeborg Dinesen, havde gennem nogle år været en af hotellets kæreste gæster - ikke mindst, fordi hun og Elisabeth Kokholm kunne så godt sammen. De forstod at hygge sig over en kop te.
Det var vel på den baggrund, at fru Dinesens datter, Karen søgte op til Kokholms Hotel omkring november (1936), da hun skulle have fred og ro til at skrive en bog. ... men der var ikke meget ro i det ukristelige byggerod, man lå i.
Så man kiggede sig omkring og skaffede hende et værelse i Skagen på et nyt hotel, hvor der var centralvarme.
Den første morgen fortalte Karen ved morgenbordet på Brøndums Hotel, at hun havde hørt en kat miave om natten. Det misforstod hotelværten som en klage, hvorfor katten blev aflivet.
Den følsomme gæst blev bestyrtet, tjekkede ud og flyttede til Hotel Skagen hos Ingeborg Østergaard. Der blev hun og skrev sin bog.
Hun kom dog næsten dagligt ud på Kokholms, hvor hun fortalte om sine oplevelser i Afrika. ... Hun var ikke dyr i drift - kun en kop te og en småkage.
Men hun fik skrevet sin bog i løbet af vinteren. Det var helt vemodigt at skulle sige farvel til hende. Hun forærede dem en bog med dedikation - "Syv fantastiske fortællinger", som hun havde skrevet under pseudonym "Isak Dinesen"
Senere på året udkom "Den afrikanske Farm" af Karen Blixen. ... Hende kunne fru Dinesen sandelig være stolt af.
Biography in relation to Skagen
His father Wilhelm Dinesen was a Jutlandic landowner; his mother Ingeborg Westenholz (1856-1939) was a granddaughter of the Copenhagen merchant A.N. Hansen.
While still young, in her mid-twenties, Karen fell in love with her second cousin from Sweden, but he did not reciprocate. She therefore engaged his twin brother, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke
In 1914 Karen Dinesen married her Swedish half-cousin Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke in Africa. Together they ran a coffee farm in British East Africa (later Kenya). After many years of financial struggle, the farm had to be sold in 1931.
Karen Blixen, who had divorced Bror Blixen in 1925, returned to her childhood home of Rungstedlund in North Zealand. Here she finished the stories she had begun in Africa. She wrote in English and made her American debut in 1934 with Seven Gothic Tales under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen.
Skagen (story by Bent Hardervig)
The winter of 1936-37 at the Kokholm Hotel in Kandestederne - that particular winter was very cosy, and at the same time very exciting, because of regular visits by the widowed Dinesen's daughter.
Mrs Dinesen, Ingeborg Dinesen, had for some years been one of the hotel's dearest guests - not least because she and Elisabeth Kokholm got on so well. They knew how to enjoy themselves over a cup of tea.
It was probably against this background that Mrs Dinesen's daughter, Karen, sought out the Kokholm Hotel around November (1936), when she needed peace and quiet to write a book. ... but there was not much peace in the unchristian building slum.
So they looked around and got her a room in Skagen in a new hotel with central heating.
The first morning, at the breakfast table at Brøndums Hotel, Karen told me that she had heard a cat meowing in the night. The hotel manager mistook this for a complaint, so the cat was put down.
The sensitive guest was dismayed, checked out and moved to Hotel Skagen with Ingeborg Østergaard. There she stayed and wrote her book.
However, she came out almost daily to Kokholms, where she told about her experiences in Africa. ... She was not expensive to run - just a cup of tea and a biscuit.
But she got her book written over the winter. It was quite sad to have to say goodbye to her. She gave them a book with a dedication - "Seven Amazing Stories", which she had written under the pseudonym "Isaac Dinesen"
Later that year, "Out of Africa" by Isaac Dinesen (Karen Blixen) was published. ... Mrs Dinesen could certainly be proud of her.
Links og litteratur
Links og litteratur
Gyldensdals "I begyndelsen var lyset" om Kandestederne