Harald Bergstedt

Harald Bergstedt was a Danish writer, novelist, playwright and a poet.
Author of the genre and satire verses.
His social novel Alexandersen became a satire on a bourgeois culture.
His novel Factory of the Saints became a prototype for Yakov Protazanov's 1930 film St. Jorgen's Day — a satire on the church and its ministers' hypocrisy.
Before the Second World War, he was a social democrat and was an immensely popular poet. Several still popular Danish children's songs have lyrics by Bergstedt. In 1942-1945 during the German occupation of Denmark, he worked for a Nazi newspaper in Denmark, "Fædrelandet", and in 1946 was sentenced two years in prison for "cooperation with the Nazis". For this reason his songs was banned from being played on Danmarks Radio until 1963.
In 1948, he published a verse collection named Songs in the Jail with his thoughts on his life and works.