300px, Entrance to the museum
The Strindberg Museum Saxen is located in the village Saxen in
Upper Austria
Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, an ...
. It is the only Strindberg museum outside of
Sweden and is managed by the Kulturverein Saxen.
Description
In 1997 the museum was founded in 1997 by
Friedrich Buchmayr and the community of Saxen.
In 1893
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty p ...
married the Austrian author and translator
Frida Uhl
Maria Friederike Cornelia "Frida" Strindberg (née Uhl; 4 April 1872 – 28 June 1943) was an Austrian writer and translator, who was closely associated with many important figures in 20th-century literature.
Biography
Uhl was the daughter of F ...
, and between 1893 and 1896 he stayed several times with her and their child Kerstin in Saxen and Klam. First they lived in the castle Dornach or in a building adjacent to the castle respectively. After controversies with Fridas family and Frida herself, he moved to Klam, a neighbouring place of Saxen, where he took the so-called ''Rosenzimmer'' in the inn ''Kirchenwirt''.
The museum displays original letters and manuscripts, contemporary photographs and a piano purchased by August Strindberg himself.
In the surroundings of Klam August Strindberg found a lot of themes for his paintings, e.g. the cascades in the canyon between Klam and Saxen, as well as for his novels where he depicted for example the stone formations, the hammer mill and a pigsty in the canyon. In the fifteenth chapter of his novel ''Inferno'' he describes his visions having experienced during a walk through the canyon.
In 2009 the Strindberg walk between Saxen and Klam was provided with signs.
Awards
* ''Upper Austrian museum of the month'' in May 2007
* ''Strindberg award'' 1998 granted by the
Strindberg Museum in Stockholm
[Österreichische Kultur im Norden, Österreichische Kulturarbeit in Schweden, in: Ausblicke 15, Zeitschrift für österreichische Kultur und Sprache, 8. Jahrgang, May 2002, pages 18f]
External links
homepage of the Strindberg museum in Saxenhomepage of the Strindberg museum in StockholmGutenberg ebook ''The Inferno by August Strindberg''
*Strindbergs inferno walk in different languages:
**i
(from ''Walking along the little brook'' till ''I return home'')
**i
German
(from ''Auf einem Spaziergange'' till ''nach Hause zurück'')
**i
(from ''På en vandring'' till ''övernaturligt'')
References
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Museums in Upper Austria
August Strindberg
