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Tania Blixen

Geburtstag: 17. April 1885
Todesdatum: 7. September 1962

Karen Blixen, eigentlich Karen Christence von Blixen-Finecke, geborene Dinesen, war eine dänische Schriftstellerin und 17 Jahre lang eine Kaffeefarmerin in Kenia. Ihr Pseudonym auf dem deutschen Buchmarkt ist meist Tania Blixen. Ihre englischsprachigen Bücher erschienen meist unter dem Pseudonym Isak Dinesen. Karen Blixen wurde in dem Film Jenseits von Afrika dargestellt. Ihr Werk ist von der Sehnsucht nach einer aristokratischen Weltordnung geprägt.

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„Salzwasser heilt alles - Schweiß, Tränen oder das Meer.“

— Tania Blixen, buch Seven Gothic Tales
Reader's Digest, April 1964 (Englisch: "I know of a cure for everything: salt water. [...] in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea." - "The Deluge at Norderney" in "Seven Gothic Tales". London Putnam 1934. p. 220; Vintage 1962 p.39 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=UuQbLWN9Fy4C&pg=PA39&dq=sweat Dänisch: „jeg kender en kur for alting: Salt vand. [...] på den ene måde eller den anden. Sved eller tårer eller det salte hav.“ - "Syndfloden over Norderney" in "Syv fantastiske fortællinger" Gyldendal 2005 p.208 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=VjlaktGHSkUC&pg=PA208&dq=kur; in alter Rechtschreibung Gyldendal 1958 p.170 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=QTDkAAAAMAAJ&q=kur)

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„Wahre Kunst enthält immer etwas Hexenzauber.“

— Tania Blixen
zitiert zum Beispiel von Fritzi Busch in Konkret 2006, S.61 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=qD08AQAAIAAJ&q=blixen (Original dänisch: „Stor Kunst synes jeg ikke det er; jeg synes som [Oscar] Levertin at det, jeg søger i Digtning, er en Belysning af det, som Goldschmidt kalder: Livets Magi, - og det findes ikke hos Sigrid Undset, i det hele taget ingen Belysning; det er som et stort Landskab i bestandigt Graavejr og Garveløshed; Tryllestaven mangler, det er „kein Hexerei", og jeg siger sorn Otto Benzon (tror jeg), at virkelig Kunst er altid noget Hexerei.“ - nach Bernhard Glienke: „Fatale Präzedenz“ 1986, S.202 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=e7IrAAAAMAAJ&q=seger Englisch: „Although I do not consider it great art: I think with Levertin that what I am looking for in imaginative writing is an illumination of what Goldschmidt calls: the magic of life,—and that is not to be found in Sigrid Undset, where there is really no illumination; it is like a great landscape that is constantly overcast and colorless; the magic wand is missing, it is "kein Hexerei," and I say with Otto Benzon (I think), that real art must always involve some witchcraft.“ - „Letters from Africa, 1914-1931“, edited by Frans Lasson, translated by Anne Born. Chicago UP 1981. p.181 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=OKhQAQAAIAAJ&q=Iexerei)

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„Reiten, Bogenschießen, die Wahrheit sagen.“

— Tania Blixen, buch Jenseits von Afrika
Motto des autobiographischen Romans „Afrika - dunkel lockende Welt.“ Aus dem Englischen von Rudolf von Scholtz. (in der englischen Originalausgabe „Out of Africa“ lateinisch: "Equitare, Arcum tendere, Veritatem dicere." - Penguin, PT7 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=UY67prSIuogC&pg=PT7 in der dänischen Originalausgabe „Den afrikanske Farm“: "At ride, at skyde med Bue og at tale Sandhed" - Gyldenhal, p.11 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=acxP5wBrv5oC&pg=PA11; zur Herkunft p.326 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=acxP5wBrv5oC&pg=PA326&dq=ride und Herodot 1,136.2)

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„Das Pendel schlägt nicht zurück und ändert die Richtung, weil seine Richtung für falsch befunden worden ist, sondern die Uhr geht, weil das Pendel sich hin und zurück bewegt.“

— Tania Blixen
„Moderne Ehe und andere Betrachtungen“, Übersetzung Walter Boehlich, in: „Mottos meines Lebens“, Verlag: Rowohlt, ISBN 3-499-13190-0 (Dänisch: "Pendulet slaar ikke om og skifter Retning, fordi dets Retning er fundet at være forkert, men Uhret gaar, fordi Pendulet bevæger sig frem og tilbage." - „Moderne ægteskab og andre betragtninger“. Hier nach Caroline Carlsen, Frans Lasson: „Erindringer om Karen Blixen“ 1976, p.13 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=7UbkAAAAMAAJ&q=pendulet; in neuer Rechtschreibung in: „Samlede essays“, Gyldendal 1985, p.8 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=EDXkAAAAMAAJ&q=pendulet Englisch: "The pendulum does not turn round and change direction because its direction is found to be the wrong one, but the clock works because the pendulum moves to and fro." - On Modern Marriage and Other Observations. Translated by Anne Born. Fourth Estate, 1987. p.34 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=3cEiAQAAMAAJ&q=pendulum)

„No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.“

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— Karen Blixen, buch Jenseits von Afrika

„Here I am, where I ought to be.“

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— Karen Blixen, buch Jenseits von Afrika

„Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.“

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— Karen Blixen, buch Jenseits von Afrika
Out of Africa (1937)

„I think Marilyn is bound to make an almost overwhelming impression on the people who meet her for the first time. It is not that she is pretty, although she is of course almost incredibly pretty, but she radiates, at the same time, unbounded vitality and a kind of unbelievable innocence. I have met the same in a lion-cub, which my native servants in Africa brought me. I would not keep her, since I felt that it would in some way be wrong…I shall never forget the almost overpowering feeling of unconquerable strength and sweetness which she conveyed. I had all the wild nature of Africa amicably gazing at me with mighty playfulness.“

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— Karen Blixen
Written of her experience with actress Marilyn Monroe in a letter to the American author, Fleur Cowles Meyer, in 1961. As quoted in Fragments, by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment (2010)

„There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.“

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— Karen Blixen, buch Jenseits von Afrika
Out of Africa (1937)

„Real art must always involve some witchcraft.“

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— Karen Blixen
Letters from Africa: 1914-1931 (1981) edited by Frans Lasson, translated by Anne Born.

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„White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.“

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— Karen Blixen, buch Jenseits von Afrika
Out of Africa (1937)

„It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.“

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— Karen Blixen, buch Anecdotes of Destiny
Anecdotes of Destiny (1953), "The Immortal Story"

„I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.“

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— Karen Blixen
Letter to her mother (26 February 1919)

„A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.“

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— Karen Blixen, buch Jenseits von Afrika

„When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.“

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— Karen Blixen

„If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?“

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— Karen Blixen

„I know of a cure for everything: salt water… in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.“

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— Karen Blixen
As quoted in Reader's Digest (April 1964) Variant: I know a cure for everything. Salt water … in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.