Clara Nordström

Clara Nordström, became Clara Elisabet von Vegesack, (January 18, 1886, in Karlskrona, Sweden – February 7, 1962, in Mindelheim, West Germany) was a German writer and translator of Swedish descent. With the themes of her writing and her Swedish maiden name, she profited from the German interest for Scandinavian writers. She owned part of Weißenstein Castle in Lower Bavaria

Biography Born the daughter of a physician On April 17, 1905 she married, in Växjö, the son of her teacher, 15 years her senior, and in 1906 gave birth to their son Gustav Adolf. She got divorced in 1909 after she had been left by her husband. Nordström returned to Växjö for a short time and in the same year moved to Berlin to become a photographer. After three years of instruction and practical training, she had to give up her profession for health reasons. In 1912, she went to Munich to become a writer. It was there that in 1914 she met , whom she married in 1915 in Stockholm.

In 1916, she moved with her husband to Berlin, where in April 1917 her daughter Isabel was born.

With her mother's death, an important source of income had run dry. Therefore, Nordström opened up, in the tower, a place for artists and writers to live. Roger Björn, 1935 Lillemor, 1936 Der Ruf der Heimat, 1938 Bengta, die Bäuerin aus Skane, 1941 Sternenreiter, 1946 (from 1951 published by a different publisher under the name Engelbrecht Engelbrechtsson) Die letzte der Svenske, 1952 Licht zwischen den Wolken, 1952 Kristof, 1955 Der Weg in das große Leuchten, 1955 Mein Leben, 1957 Der Findling vom Sankt Erikshof, 1961 Die Flucht nach Schweden, 1960 Die höhere Liebe, 1963 (published after her death)