Hultberg, Peer

The Danish author and psychoanalyst Peer Hultberg was born in Vangede and grew up in Horsens and Viborg on the island of Jutland where his father was a magistrate. After graduating from high school in 1953, he read Slavic languages at the University of Copenhagen, in Poland and in Yugoslavia. He studied for his doctor's degree in London where he lectured in Polish between 1963 and 1968. He later studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, graduated in 1987 and settled in Hamburg where he practiced psychoanalysis and published his books. He remained in Hamburg for the rest of his life. Hultberg wrote about his unhappy, lonely childhood and about his controlling father and submissive mother in the posthumously published Selvbiografi (2009) and Brev (2009). He learned love music at an early age, which eased the burden of his difficult childhood. A homosexual, Hultberg spent most of his adult life in voluntary exile away from Denmark. When he died he was mourned by his husband, the artist Alfred Wäspi.