Some of his books, including Tina and Katinka (English titles), have been translated into many languages and filmed. In Ludvigsbakke (1896) a young nurse squanders her love on a spineless childhood friend, who eventually deserts her, in order to save his estate by marrying a rich heiress. Stuk ( Stucco, 1887) recounts a young man's love affair that is fading away without any real explanation, against the background of the " Gründerzeit" of Copenhagen and its superficial modernization and economic speculation. Tine (1889), which has the war with Prussia in 1864 (the Second War of Schleswig) as background, tells the tragic love story of a young girl on the island of Als. Ved Vejen ( Katinka, 1886) describes the secret and never fulfilled passion of a young wife of a stationmaster, living in a barren marriage.
He is especially interested in describing lonely or isolated women. His article on the fire at Christiansborg Palace is a landmark in Danish journalism.īang is primarily concerned with "quiet existences", the disregarded and ignored people living boring and apparently unimportant lives. He was a very productive journalist, writing for Danish, Nordic and German newspapers, developing modern reporting. Uninterested in politics, he was distant from most of his colleagues in the naturalist movement.įailed as an actor, Bang earned fame as a theatre producer in Paris and in Copenhagen. He lived most of his life with his sister, but spent a few years living in Prague in 1885–86, with the German actor Max Eisfeld (1863–1935). īang was homosexual, a fact which contributed to his isolation in the cultural life of Denmark and made him the victim of smear campaigns. Among his other works are Det hvide Hus ( The White House, 1898), Excentriske Noveller ( Eccentric Stories, 1885), Stille Eksistenser ( Quiet Existences, 1886), Liv og Død ( Life and Death, 1899), Englen Michael ( The Angel Michael, 1902), a volume of poems (1889), and recollections, Ti Aar ( Ten Years, 1891). The latter won for its author the friendship of Henrik Ibsen and the enthusiastic admiration of Jonas Lie. Among his more famous stories are "Fædra" (1883) and "Tine" ("Tina", 1889). After some time spent in travel and a successful lecture tour of Norway and Sweden, he settled in Copenhagen and produced a series of novels and collections of short stories which placed him in the front rank of Scandinavian novelists. The book was considered obscene at the time and was banned. The main character was a young man who had a relationship with an older woman. In 1880 he published his novel Haabløse Slægter ( Families Without Hope), which aroused immediate attention. When he was twenty he published two volumes of critical essays on the realistic movement.
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