Amorina

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Amorina is the name of the main character in Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's reading drama / novel Amorina, or about the résumé of a crazy young lady and her strange behavior from 1822, with which the author achieved his breakthrough as a writer.

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The tragic heroine of the novel, only described as conspicuous and "insane" at the beginning of the novel, has been given the name Amorina. Her real name is Henrike and she is loved by the two twin brothers Wilhelm and Rudman. Only in the course of the novel does it become apparent that she is their sister.

The story told in many facets, which combines detailed realism with Shakespeare's infatuation with fantasy, ends with Amorina and Rudman drowning in Djurgården .

The first edition from 1822 was withdrawn and destroyed by the author. After he had revised the book extensively and provided it with a detailed "Foreword by the editor", it was published again in 1839 with the new title "Amorina or the story of the four".

Amorina and the form of the reading drama

Just like Almqvist's other reading drama Drottningens Juvelsmycke (German: The Queen's Jewelery ), Amorina alternates between descriptive and dialogue parts . Almqvist himself described the work as a “poetic fugue”, the idea of ​​which he developed in his essay “On the Unity of the Epic and the Dramatic - The Idea of ​​the Poetic Fugue”. He describes this form as a new combination of epic and drama, as it was only made possible by modern scene technology and stage aesthetics.

The first performance took place in 1951 at the Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern in an arrangement by Alf Sjöberg and Claes Hooglands, and in 1963 a radio play version was created under the direction of Alf Sjöberg, which is in the archive of the Swedish radio.

There were further performances in Gothenburg in 1976, at Riksteatern in 1983, in Malmö and Uppsala in 1986, as well as at Dramaten, another at Dramaten in 1990, and in 2013 in a touring theater production.

Lars Runsten wrote an opera of the same name based on the novel. This had its premiere in 1993 in the Rotundascen of the Kungliga Teaterns.