Henning Mankell
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 .
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.
Quotes
"He is the most social democratic writer who has ever lived."
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 | |
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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 | |
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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.
- The Return of the Dance Teacher , lead production Lisa Film , Vienna, directed by Urs Egger , with Tobias Moretti , Veronica Ferres , Maximilian Schell , 2004
- Kennedys Hirn , lead production Bavaria Pictures GmbH, Munich, directed by Urs Egger, with Iris Berben , Heino Ferch , 2009
- 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
- The riddle of fire
- The wrath of the fire
Crime scenes
In the crime series Tatort , the scripts of the following episodes are by Henning Mankell:
- Borowski and the fourth man (2009) in Kiel, NDR.
- 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:
- Borowski and the Festival of the North (2015/2017) in Kiel, NDR.
Dramas
- 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
- The Secret of Fire - 1997 ( Eldens hemlighet , 1995)
- The riddle of fire - 2005 ( Eldens gåta , 2001)
- The Wrath of Fire - 2008 ( Eldens vrede , 2005)
Joel Gustafsson series
- A hangover as black as the night , 2000 (Swedish: Katten som älskade regn . 1992)
- The dog that was on the way to a star , 1992 (Joel Volume 1; Swedish: Hunden som sprang mot en stjärna , 1990)
- The shadows grow in the twilight, 1994 (Joel Volume 2)
- The Boy Who Slept in the Snow, 1998 (Joel Volume 3)
- 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
- 1991: Nils Holgersson badge
- 1991: Swedish crime prize (national) for Mördare utan ansigte ( murderer without a face )
- 1992: Scandinavian crime prize for Mördare utan ansigte (murderer without a face)
- 1993: German Youth Literature Prize for the children's book The Dog That Was En route to a Star
- 1995: Swedish Crime Award ( National) for Villospår ( The Wrong Track )
- 1996: Astrid Lindgren Prize
- 1996: Expressens Heffaklump for Pojken som sov med snö i sin säng
- 1996: Swedish Radio Novel Prize for Comedia infantil ( The Chronicler of the Winds )
- 1996: BMF badge
- 1998: August Prize (children's and young people's book) for Resan till världens ände
- 1998: Finnish crime prize (international) for the "Commissioner Wallander series"
- 1999: Catholic children's and youth book award for The Secret of Fire
- 1999: German Crime Prize (International - 2nd place) for The Fifth Woman
- 2000: Prix Mystère de la critique for Villospår (The wrong track)
- 2001: Gold Dagger for: Sidetracked (The Wrong Track)
- 2001: Corine for Midsummer Murder
- 2001: German Crime Prize (International - 3rd place) for midsummer murder
- 2003: German Book Prize (Audience Award) for The Return of the Dance Teacher
- 2004: Tolerance Prize of the Evangelical Academy Tutzing
- 2005: Gumshoe Awards (Best European Crime Novel) for The Return of the Dancing Master ( The Return of the Dance Teacher )
- 2005: Crimezone Thriller Award (Best International Thriller) for The Return of the Dance Teacher
- 2008: Golden pen for his literary work
- 2008: Corine for his audio book Der Chinese
- 2008: Ripper Award European Prize for Crime Fiction
- 2009: Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize (main prize) for his Africa work
- 2010: Crimezone Thriller Award (best international thriller) for Der Feind im Schatten
- 2012: International Honorary Award of the Rivertonklubben
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
- Literature by and about Henning Mankell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Henning Mankell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Henning Mankell's former website ( memento from October 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography in a dtv special
- Henning Mankell at Skandinavische-Krimis.com
- Tobias Gohlis : A decent person. ZEIT-Online, January 31, 2008
Reviews
- krimi-couch.de about his thrillers
- Short biography and reviews of works by Henning Mankell at perlentaucher.de
- schwedenkrimi.de about his crime novels
Interviews
- Henning Mankell: "I had a dream of the end of mankind" (FAZ, October 20, 2006)
- Henning Mankell: "I don't like serial killers" (kaindlstorfer.at, reprint: Tagesanzeiger, Zurich, March 15, 2000)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jon Mankell in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ “I have to give something back” - Mankell is giving away the farm . n-tv.de.
- ^ Roman Bucheli : The writer Henning Mankell died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 5, 2015; accessed on October 5, 2015.
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Henning Mankell .
- ^ A b c Lars Åke Augustsson, Stig Hansén: De svenska maoisterna . Lindelöw, Göteborg 2001, ISBN 91-88144-48-8 , p. 162 .
- ↑ a b Andreas Breitenstein: A stowaway . Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 9, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
- ↑ Reinhard Mohr : Eyewitness Mankell on the Gaza incident: "The Israelis could have aimed at the propellers" . Spiegel Online , June 3, 2010.
- ^ Henryk M. Broder: It's about Israel . Welt Online, September 19, 2009.
- ↑ Martin Ebel: Star author on boarded Gaza ship. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. May 31, 2010, accessed October 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Alan Posener: "I'm not a useful idiot". In: Die Welt , June 4, 2010.
- ↑ Star author Mankell in Israeli hands .
- ↑ Vi har inte hears av honom . Aftonbladet , accessed May 31, 2010.
- ↑ Cecilia Uddén: Fem svenskar på fartygskonvojen mår bra . In: Ekot , May 31, 2010 .
- ^ Robert Booth: Gaza flotilla raid: 'We heard gunfire - then our ship turned into lake of blood' . In: The Guardian , June 2, 2010 .
- ↑ https://www.literaturcafe.de/mein-herz-schlaegt-in-afrika-eine-reise-mit-henning-mankell/
- ↑ http://www.quotenmeter.de/n/34538/die-kritiker-mein-herz-schlaegt-in-afrika
- ^ Federal President Köhler presents the Peace Prize to Henning Mankell . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, September 18, 2009, accessed on October 13, 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ For the Africa project - Mankell donates to Schlingensief's opera Berliner Zeitung, September 21, 2009.
- ↑ G. Seeßlen: Loneliness and Class Struggle, in: Die Zeit No. 32, August 2, 2018, p. 39.
- ↑ a b cf. Catalog entry Butterfly Blues: a play by Henning Mankell, translated from the English by Claudia Romeder-Szevera. Retrieved June 20, 2012 .
- ↑ daserste.de .
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the North Festival. (PDF) Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120610060700/http://www.henningmankell.com/Theatre/Plays
- ↑ Christa Roßmann: literary criticism on Butterfly Blues. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011 ; Retrieved June 20, 2012 .
- ↑ facebook.com .
personal data | |
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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 |