Idar Kristiansen [SEP] place of birth
Idar Kristiansen
Idar Kristiansen (1932, Honningsvåg – 1985) is a Norwegian poet, novelist, short story writer and non-fiction writer. He made his literary debut in 1957 with the poetry collection "Sanger fra en tundra". His main work is a tetralogy on the Finnish immigration to Finnmark, "Kornet og fiskene" (1978-1981).
He was awarded the Aschehoug Prize in 1980.
proposing more or less credible, sometimes fantastic hypotheses.
The mystery of B. Traven's biography Ret Marut theory.
The author of the first hypothesis concerning B. Traven's identity was the German journalist, writer and anarchist Erich Mühsam, who conjectured that the person who hides behind the pseudonym was the former actor and journalist Ret Marut. Marut, whose date and place of birth are unknown, performed on stage in Idar (today Idar-Oberstein), Ansbach, Suhl, Crimmitschau, Berlin, Danzig and Düsseldorf before the First