Anton Svensson

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Anton Svensson is the pseudonym of a Swedish duo of writers consisting of the writer Anders Roslund and the screenwriter Stefan Thunberg . Her crime novels about several brothers who jointly carry out a series of bank robberies are based on Thunberg's own family history.

Authors

Anders Roslund is a Swedish investigative journalist and writer. Before working with Thunberg, he and the Swedish ex-criminal and rehabilitation activist Börge Hellström wrote a series of detective novels that have won multiple awards and reached a total circulation of over 5 million.

Stefan Thunberg writes scripts for various Scandinavian film and television productions, including the series Mankells Wallander , the film adaptations of the Van Veeteren novels by Håkan Nesser and the films The Night of the Hunters and Agent Hamilton . His father and his three brothers gained fame through a series of bank robberies in Sweden, will give them the name of military Ligan (dt. Military League earned). Thunberg was aware of the criminal activities of his family, but he was the only one of the brothers who managed to evade the influence of his dominant father and involvement in the crimes.

Works

Made in Sweden / The father

The first novel by Roslund and Thunberg was published in 2014 under the title Björndansen . The following year, Goldmann Verlag published the German translation under the title Made in Sweden . With the paperback edition, the title was changed to Der Vater and the authors' real names were replaced by the pseudonym Anton Svensson, which the duo also uses in other countries.

The focus of the novel is on the three brothers Leo, Felix and Vincent Duvnjac as well as their childhood friend Jasper, who are clearing an arsenal of the Swedish military and using the captured weapons to carry out a series of bank robberies in a brutality previously unknown in Sweden. In flashbacks to their childhood, the violent father Ivan reveals himself as a formative influence on the criminal career of his sons and their unconditional cohesion. The bank robber's opponent is criminal investigator John Broncks, who for his part has a family history of violence and crime.

In the epilogue of the novel, Stefan Thunberg assures that the events surrounding the Duvnjac family are largely taken from his own biography. Writing the novel helped him cope with them more than psychotherapy. For Katharina Granzin, the special feature of the novel is the “empathetic inner view of all sides involved in a crime drama”, which forms a “counterpoint to the externally genre-compliant plot structure”. The message is that everyone can be made to commit serious crimes against others if they have been influenced accordingly in their youth.

The other

The second novel by the author duo was published in 2017 in both Sweden ( En Bror Att Dö För ) and Germany ( Der Andere ). It begins six years after the events of the first novel with the release of Leo from prison, after which he again meets with his brothers and his father. While still in custody, he planned a new series of bank robberies with a fellow prisoner. Again there is a dispute with the personally involved Commissioner John Broncks.

According to Meike Feßmann , the authors find “strong images for the effects of brutal violence” that are presented in two similar family constellations. In the duel between bank robbers and police officers, it is not least about "regaining control after an experience of violence and about perfect control as a temptation and delusional system."

Publications

  • Björndansen , Piratförlaget, 2014
    • Made in Sweden . Translated from the Swedish by Lotta Rüegger and Holger Wolandt. Goldmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-31403-4 .
    • The father . Translated from the Swedish by Lotta Rüegger and Holger Wolandt. Goldmann, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-442-48601-4 .
  • En Bror Att Dö För , Piratförlaget, 2017
    • The other . Translated from the Swedish by Lotta Rüegger and Holger Wolandt. Goldmann, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-442-31452-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More on this in the article military league in the Swedish Wikipedia .
  2. ^ Author information on the website of Roslund & Thunberg.
  3. ↑ Stuart Jeffries: I ratted out my bank-robber brothers . In: The Guardian, August 8, 2015.
  4. ^ Roslund & Thunberg = ANTON SVENSSON on the website of Roslund & Thunberg.
  5. ↑ Katharina Granzin: A very difficult childhood . In: the daily newspaper of November 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ Meike Feßmann : Perfect control . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 5, 2017.