Henning Mankell

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Henning Mankell (2011)

Henning Georg Mankell [ ˌhɛnːiŋ ˈmaŋːkəl ] (born February 3, 1948 in Stockholm ; † October 5, 2015 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish writer and theater director . He gained fame in German-speaking countries primarily through his crime series with Commissioner Kurt Wallander .

Life

Henning Mankell was the son of Ivar Henningsson Mankell and Ingrid Birgitta Mankell (née Bergström). His grandfather was the composer Henning Mankell . Mankell had German ancestors. He was a great-great-grandson of Johan Herman Mankel , who was born in Niederasphe, a district of Münchhausen in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf , and who later emigrated to Sweden.

When Mankell was one year old, his parents divorced. He then lived with his father and an older sister in Sveg in Härjedalen , where his father worked as a judge, and later in Borås in Västergötland . His mother committed suicide when Mankell was in her twenties.

Even as a boy he wanted to become a writer, but was also interested in the theater, which is why he started studying acting in Skara . In 1966, when he was 18, he became assistant director at the Riksteater in Stockholm. With the aim of "unmasking society", he wrote and staged pieces in collage form as early as the age of 20 . From 1968 he worked as a theater director and author . After meeting a Norwegian woman, he moved to Norway , where he mostly worked and lived in the 1970s. There he began to write prose texts in the early 1970s . In 1972 he made a trip to Africa, which was decisive for his later life. In 1973 he published his first novel with Bergsprängaren . In 1974 The Sand Draftsman appeared and in 1979 The Prison Camp That Disappeared followed . All of these books have a socially critical background.

For the following ten years Mankell worked as a theater director and artistic director a . a. at the Västerbotten Theater in Skellefteå and at the Kronborg Theater in Växjö . He began to commute between Sweden and Africa and he had a Swedish born son in 1980. In Maputo , Mozambique , which he considered his second home, he built a theater group from the mid-1980s. In 1996 Mankell took over the management of the Teatro Avenida theater in Maputo. He used material from his adopted home in other novels such as The Chronicler of the Wind (German 2000), a story about street children, and The Red Antilope (German 2001) about a Bushman boy. What is less well known is that Mankell also wrote numerous books for children and young people, including The Secret of Fire (German 1996) and The Boy Who Slept in the Snow (German 1998). In 2003 artists from the Graz Schauspielhaus and Teatro Avenida performed the multilingual play Butterfly Blues, written and staged by Mankell, in Graz .

Until recently, political and social issues took up a lot of space in his books. Many of these personal motives and experiences were processed in his crime novel Der Chinese , published in 2008 . In his novel Murderer Without a Face , he created the character of Detective Inspector Kurt Wallander . Since then he has published an extremely successful series of detective novels about the gnarled, somewhat grouchy, but dedicated police officer . These novels follow the tradition of the books written by the authors Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö about the detective inspector Martin Beck .

Mankell was most recently married to the theater director Eva Bergman , the second daughter of Ingmar Bergman , in his third marriage . Mankell bequeathed the estate in Sveg, inherited from his father, to the Swedish Dramatists Association in 2009.

On January 28, 2014, Mankell announced in a daily newspaper in his Swedish homeland that he had cancer . At the beginning of 2014, tumors were discovered in his throat and lungs, which may have already spread. Although he suffered greatly from this fate, Mankell decided to make his illness public and to report on his fight against it in a column . Henning Mankell succumbed to cancer on October 5, 2015 at the age of 67. His final resting place is on Örgryte gamla kyrkogård in Gothenburg .

Political positions

Mankell was active in the Swedish 1968 movement and took part in protests against the Vietnam War , Portugal's colonial war in Africa and against the apartheid regime in South Africa . He was also involved in the cultural and political association Folket i Bild / Kulturfront. During his time in Norway, Mankell came into contact with the Maoist arbeidernes communist party .

Mankell at a book signing on March 2, 2009 in Unna on the occasion of the presentation of the Ripper Awards

In 2009 he was a guest at a Palestinian literary conference and toured the Palestinian Territories . He then claimed that the founding of Israel in 1948 following a resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations was not an " internationally lawful act" and that it was "a repetition of the contemptible apartheid system that once treated Africans and people of color as second-class citizens in their own country" , experience. According to Mankell, the “downfall” of Israel is “the only conceivable result, since it is necessary”.

The Israeli separation barrier compared Mankell with the Berlin Wall . Given the living conditions of the Palestinians, it is not surprising “that they decide to turn into a suicide bomber […]. It is only astonishing that it no longer does it. ”“ The Israelis ”would“ destroy lives ”and the state of Israel in its current form has no future, a two-state solution would not undo the“ historical occupation ”. Mankell did not experience anti-Semitism during the trip, just "normal hatred of the occupiers ."

Mankell was criticized for these statements in Germany by, among others, Henryk M. Broder , who compared his anti-Israeli statements with those of Jostein Gaarder from 2006 and accused him of applying shifted standards. Not even regimes like those in Sudan , Congo or Iran would upset Mankell as much as the one in Israel, which he denies the right to exist. In the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Andreas Breitenstein accused Mankell of practicing “a self-satisfied left-wing moralism based on historical half-knowledge”.

Mankell called the Gaza Strip an "open-air prison". In May 2010 he took part in the Ship to Gaza 2010 campaign of the Free Gaza Movement , which was organized by Islamists and others and killed nine activists. Mankell was unharmed, but was briefly arrested by Israeli authorities. He then called for global sanctions against Israel.

Africa

Even as a child, Mankell had dreamed of traveling to the African continent. In 1972, at the age of 24, he fulfilled this wish when he traveled to Zambia for the first time and stayed there for two years. He said it "felt like coming home". Most recently he lived alternately in Sweden (in the summer months), but most of the year in Mozambique, which he saw as his preferred home; there, as in Europe, he was committed to Africa. In 1985 he received an invitation to set up a professional theater company in Maputo. In 1986 he became the honorary director of the 70-strong “ Teatro Avenida ”, the only professional and now very successful theater in Mozambique, and he was there until his death - sometimes he also directed.

Mankell shot the film My Heart Beats in Africa as a two-parter for ZDF with director Jens Monath , broadcast in spring 2009. The film often takes up motifs from his book The Chronicler of the Wind (Original: Comédia infantil) , such as the fate of street children outcast albinos and young adults traumatized by their past as child soldiers .

In 2009 Mankell received the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize from the city of Osnabrück “for his Africa work”. The then Federal President Horst Köhler gave the laudatory speech entitled “Africa is full of butterflies”. With part of the prize money, Mankell supported the project of Christoph Schlingensief , who died in 2010, to build a festival theater in Africa.

Mariagatan in Ystad

Quotes

"He is the most social democratic writer who has ever lived."

- Georg Seeßlen : loneliness and class struggle

Works

The Wallander novels

Kurt Wallander ( pronunciation : [ ˌkɵʁt vaˈlanːdəʁ ]) is the fictional protagonist in most of Henning Mankell's crime novels, his most famous literary creation. Numerous novels in the Wallander series were made into films, some of them several times.

Publishing year Original title German title Translation of original title Wallander band ISBN of the German edition
Sweden Germany
1991 1993 Mördare utan ansikts Faceless murderer Faceless murderer part 1 ISBN 3-423-20232-7
1992 1993 Hundarna i Riga Dogs from Riga The dogs of Riga Volume 2 ISBN 3-423-20294-7
1993 1995 The vita lejoninnan The white lioness The white lioness Volume 3 ISBN 3-423-20150-9
1994 2001 Men som log The man who smiled The man who smiled Volume 4 ISBN 3-423-20590-3
1995 1999 Villospår The wrong track Wrong track Volume 5 ISBN 3-423-20420-6
1996 1998 Den femte kvinnan The fifth woman The fifth woman Volume 6 ISBN 3-423-20366-8
1997 2000 Stege efter Midsummer murder One step behind Volume 7 ISBN 3-423-20520-2
1998 2001 Brandvägg The firewall Firewall Volume 8 ISBN 3-423-20661-6
1999 2002 Pyramids Wallander's first case and other stories The pyramid Volume 9 ISBN 3-423-20700-0
(1999) 2004 (Pyramids) The pyramid The pyramid from volume 9 ISBN 3-423-25216-2
(1999) 2004 (Photographer död) The death of the photographer The death of the photographer from volume 9 ISBN 3-423-25254-5
2002 2003 Freeze inside Before the frost Before the frost Volume 1
Linda Wallander 		ISBN 3-423-20831-7
2013 2013 Hands Murder in autumn *) The hand Volume 10 ISBN 978-3-552-05642-8
2009 2010 The orolige mannen The enemy in the shadows The restless man Volume 11 ISBN 978-3-552-05496-7

*) first published in 2004 in the Netherlands

More novels

Chronological overview

Publishing year Original title German title ISBN of the German edition
Sweden Germany
1973 1998/2018 Bergsprängaren The demolition master ISBN 978-3-552-05901-6
1974 2017 Sandmålaren The sand painter ISBN 978-3-552-05854-5
1977   Vettvillingen    
1979   Fångvårdskolonin som försvann The prison camp that disappeared  
1980   Dödsbrickan    
1981   En seglares död    
1982 2009 Daisy Sisters Daisy Sisters ISBN 978-3-552-05399-1
1983   Apelsinträdet    
1983   Älskade syster    
1984 1997 Sagan om Isidore    
1990 2004 Leopardens öga The leopard's eye ISBN 3-423-13424-0
1992 2000 Katten som älskade raining A hangover as black as the night ISBN 3-7891-4224-7
1995 2000 Comédia infantil The chronicler of the winds ISBN 3-423-12964-6
1995 1997 Eldens hemlighet The secret of fire ISBN 3-7891-4211-5
1998 2007 Advice on tidens strand The whispering souls ISBN 3-552-05335-2
1999   I sand och i lera    
2000   Mazes    
2000 2002 Danslärarens återkomst The return of the dance teacher ISBN 3-423-20750-7
2000 2001 Vindens son The red antelope ISBN 3-423-13075-X
2001 2001 Eldens gåta The riddle of fire ISBN 3-7891-4231-X
2001 2003 Tea bag Tea bag ISBN 3-423-13326-0
2003 2004 Jag dör, men minnet lever I'm dying but the memory lives ISBN 3-423-13479-8
2004 2005 Djup depth ISBN 3-423-20978-X
- 2005 - Butterfly blues ISBN 3-423-13290-6
2005 2006 Kennedys hjärna Kennedy's brain ISBN 3-552-05347-6
2006 2007 Italienska skor The Italian shoes ISBN 3-552-05415-4
2007 2008 Eldens Vrede The wrath of the fire ISBN 978-3-7891-4278-9
2008 2008 Kinesis The Chinese ISBN 978-3-552-05436-3
2011 2012 Minnet av en smutsig ängel Memory of a filthy angel ISBN 978-3-552-05579-7
2014 2015 Kvicksand Quicksand: What it means to be human ISBN 978-3-552-05736-4
2015 2016 Svenska gummistövlar The Swedish rubber boots ISBN 978-3-552-05795-1

Further films

Some of Mankell's thrillers outside the famous Wallander series were filmed by ARD / Degeto in coproduction with ORF and the Swedish company Yellow Bird. The multi-part series was designed primarily with a prominent German-speaking cast as an event for German television.

  1. The Return of the Dance Teacher , lead production Lisa Film , Vienna, directed by Urs Egger , with Tobias Moretti , Veronica Ferres , Maximilian Schell , 2004
  2. Kennedys Hirn , lead production Bavaria Pictures GmbH, Munich, directed by Urs Egger, with Iris Berben , Heino Ferch , 2009
  3. Der Chinese , lead production Yellow Bird Pictures GmbH, directed by Peter Keglevic , script by Fred Breinersdorfer and Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer , with Suzanne von Borsody , Mikael Nyqvist , Claudia Michelsen , Karlheinz Hackl , August Schmölzer , 2011
  4. The riddle of fire
  5. The wrath of the fire
Crime scenes

In the crime series Tatort , the scripts of the following episodes are by Henning Mankell:

  1. Borowski and the fourth man (2009) in Kiel, NDR.
  2. Borowski and the cool dog (2010) in Kiel, NDR.

The NDR had planned two more episodes of the crime scene in Kiel based on templates by Henning Mankell, which should have been broadcast in 2014. Mankell had already developed the first sketches for the crime thrillers with Klaus Borowski ( Axel Milberg ) and Sarah Brandt ( Sibel Kekilli ) at the beginning of 2013.

The script templates for the following episodes were created by Henning Mankell:

  1. Borowski and the Festival of the North (2015/2017) in Kiel, NDR.

Dramas

Photo from "Miles or the pendulum clock from Montreux" by Henning Mankell, KUNST UND DRAMA with Roland Eugen Beiküfner and Jodok Lingg
  • Butterfly blues
  • Time in the dark
  • Antelopes
  • Miles or the pendulum clock from Montreux
  • The unscrupulous murderer Hasse Karlsson reveals the terrible truth of how the woman died over the railway bridge
  • The chronicler of the winds
  • An autumn evening before the silence
  • The Doors, play for the Gaulhofer company with Theater Avenido from Maputo , 2011

Children's books

Sofia series

  1. The Secret of Fire - 1997 ( Eldens hemlighet , 1995)
  2. The riddle of fire - 2005 ( Eldens gåta , 2001)
  3. The Wrath of Fire - 2008 ( Eldens vrede , 2005)

Joel Gustafsson series

  1. A hangover as black as the night , 2000 (Swedish: Katten som älskade regn . 1992)
  2. The dog that was on the way to a star , 1992 (Joel Volume 1; Swedish: Hunden som sprang mot en stjärna , 1990)
  3. The shadows grow in the twilight, 1994 (Joel Volume 2)
  4. The Boy Who Slept in the Snow, 1998 (Joel Volume 3)
  5. Journey to the End of the World, 1998 (Joel Volume 4)

Audio productions (excerpt)

  • 1999: The fifth woman , WDR
  • 2001: Midsummer murder , WDR
  • 2002: The unscrupulous murderer Hasse Karlsson reveals the terrible truth of how the woman died over the railway bridge , NDR
  • 2002: Time in the Dark , NDR
  • 2003: The Return of the Dance Teacher , WDR

Awards

literature

  • Rainer Sens: On the inspector's trail . Stein, Welver 2003, ISBN 978-3-89392-532-2 ( Outdoor Manual , Volume 132; The path is the goal ).
  • Henning Heske : The globalization of crime. About Henning Mankell's crime novels . In: ders. (Ed.): Faust's vial. About poetry and science . Bernstein, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-9809762-3-8 .
  • Kevin Keijo Kutani: The detective novel as a medium for (general) social criticism: Using the example of the Swedish author Henning Mankell . Diplomica , Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8428-9526-3 .
  • Kirsten Jacobsen: Mankell about Mankell. Kurt Wallander and the state of the world. Zsolnay, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-552-05640-4 (biography with numerous black and white photos).

Web links

Wikiquote: Henning Mankell  - Quotes
Commons : Henning Mankell  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Reviews

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Mankell in the Internet Movie Database .
  2. ↑ “I have to give something back” - Mankell is giving away the farm . n-tv.de.
  3. ^ Roman Bucheli : The writer Henning Mankell died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 5, 2015; accessed on October 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Henning Mankell .
  5. ^ A b c Lars Åke Augustsson, Stig Hansén: De svenska maoisterna . Lindelöw, Göteborg 2001, ISBN 91-88144-48-8 , p. 162 .
  6. ↑ a b Andreas Breitenstein: A stowaway . Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 9, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
  7. ↑ Reinhard Mohr : Eyewitness Mankell on the Gaza incident: "The Israelis could have aimed at the propellers" . Spiegel Online , June 3, 2010.
  8. ^ Henryk M. Broder: It's about Israel . Welt Online, September 19, 2009.
  9. ↑ Martin Ebel: Star author on boarded Gaza ship. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. May 31, 2010, accessed October 5, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Alan Posener: "I'm not a useful idiot". In: Die Welt , June 4, 2010.
  11. ↑ Star author Mankell in Israeli hands .
  12. ↑ Vi har inte hears av honom . Aftonbladet , accessed May 31, 2010.
  13. ↑ Cecilia Uddén: Fem svenskar på fartygskonvojen mår bra . In: Ekot , May 31, 2010  .
  14. ^ Robert Booth: Gaza flotilla raid: 'We heard gunfire - then our ship turned into lake of blood' . In: The Guardian , June 2, 2010  .
  15. ↑ https://www.literaturcafe.de/mein-herz-schlaegt-in-afrika-eine-reise-mit-henning-mankell/
  16. ↑ http://www.quotenmeter.de/n/34538/die-kritiker-mein-herz-schlaegt-in-afrika
  17. ^ Federal President Köhler presents the Peace Prize to Henning Mankell . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, September 18, 2009, accessed on October 13, 2015.
  18. ↑ Africa is full of butterflies ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Federal Government, laudation by Federal President Horst Köhler on Henning Mankell on the award of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize on September 18, 2009 in Osnabrück.
  19. ↑ For the Africa project - Mankell donates to Schlingensief's opera Berliner Zeitung, September 21, 2009.
  20. ↑ G. Seeßlen: Loneliness and Class Struggle, in: Die Zeit No. 32, August 2, 2018, p. 39.
  21. ↑ a b cf. Catalog entry Butterfly Blues: a play by Henning Mankell, translated from the English by Claudia Romeder-Szevera. Retrieved June 20, 2012 .
  22. ↑ daserste.de .
  23. ^ Tatort: ​​Borowski and the North Festival. (PDF) Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
  24. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120610060700/http://www.henningmankell.com/Theatre/Plays
  25. ↑ Christa Roßmann: literary criticism on Butterfly Blues. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011 ; Retrieved June 20, 2012 .
  26. ↑ facebook.com .
personal data
SURNAME Mankell, Henning
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mankell, Henning Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2015
Place of death Gothenburg