Høst, Gerd
Translator, actress, poet, researcher and writer, Gerd Høst started out as an actress in 1934 and worked in a number of theatres in Oslo, Bergen and Berlin, until she changed her focus and pursued an academic education and career. In 1960, she became a senior lecturer in the German language in Trondheim, and in 1969 Professor of Germanic philology at the University of Oslo. She has - partly with Max Tau, her friend from the Berlin years, and Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize laureate - worked energetically promoting reconciliation after World War 2 through spreading knowledge of German literature and culture in the difficult postwar years.
Selected bibliography & translations
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| 2004 | Så mange slags kjærlighet. Med Ellinor Hamsun i Berlin 1937-39 | So Many Kinds of Love |
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| 2001 | Syng rune syng | Sing rune sing |
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| 1998 | Det var i Berlin | It Happened in Berlin |
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| 1994 | Cupido og det gamle apotek | Cupid and the old pharmacy |
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| 1986 | Blind mosaikk | Blind mosaic |
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| 1981 | Skyggen av en fugl i flukt | The shadow of a bird in flight |
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