Johannes Weltzer

Johannes Weltzer was a Danish expressionist writer and poet who also experimented with Dada. He received the bronze medal at the 1928 Art Competitions in Amsterdam in the category Literature, Lyric Works for his Symphonia Heroica (Heroic Symphony), which was a tribute to flight pioneer Charles Lindbergh. As a separate booklet of 22 pages, it was published in 1929.

Weltzer graduated in 1918 and then studied Comparative Literature from 1920-25, a study that he resumed in 1940. In addition to his studies, Weltzer taught at the København Public Libraries from 1920-21 and worked for a time as a proofreader for the newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad, as editor of a magazine and as a literary editor for a radio station. In the 1920s he made several trips around Europe to Germany, Belgium, Paris, Leningrad, and Moskva.

His first work was the drama Smerte (Pain), the poetry collection Glødende Nu (Glowing Now) was published in 1927, and Det søndrede Spejl (The Broken Mirror), another anthology, in 1946. Two years after his death, his autobiography De usandsynlige hverdage (The unlikely weekdays) was published, which captures the atmosphere of the radical inter-war poetry scene.