Background
Peer Hultberg was born in Vangede northwest of Copenhagen and lived in Horsens and Viborg during his child and teenage years.
Peer Hultberg was born in Vangede northwest of Copenhagen and lived in Horsens and Viborg during his child and teenage years.
From 1953 he studied at the University of Copenhagen (French, musicology and Slavic languages).
He lived for some years in Skopje and Warsaw and then moved to London in 1959. Hultberg was a lecturer of Polish language and literature at the University of London for a couple of years while writing his thesis on the literary style of Wacław Berent. Having received his Doctor of Philosophy, he moved back to his native country as a lecturer of the same subject at the University of Copenhagen in 1968.
In 1973 he started studying psychoanalysis at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich getting a diploma in 1978.
He moved to Hamburg and worked as a psychoanalyst for several years. His writing career started in 1968 when he publiced two novels, but his breakthrough came with Requiem from 1985, a novel of 611 pages and 537 chapters.