Elisabeth Åsbrink
Elisabeth Katherine Åsbrink (born April 29, 1965 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish journalist and writer.
Life
Elisabeth Åsbrink worked as a reporter for Sveriges Television and as an investigative journalist for the program Uppdrag Granskning from 2000 . Her first book Smärtpunkte was published in 2009 and was nominated for the August Prize . Her book And in the Vienna Woods Still Stand The Trees is based on 524 letters from the parents of the Austrian Otto Ullmann (1925–2005), who was saved from the German persecution of Jews in 1939 with a Kindertransport from Vienna to Sweden. The parents were victims of the Holocaust in 1944 , and Åsbrink, who is herself of Jewish origin, received the letters from a daughter of Ullmann after his death. The book received the August Prize in 2011, the “Dansk-svensk Kulturfonds kulturpris” in 2013 and the Polish Ryszard-Kapuściński Prize for the best literary report in 2014 . While researching the book, Åsbrink had uncovered further details about the Nazi past of Ingvar Kamprad , with whom Ullmann had become friends in Sweden.
Åsbrink's first play RÄLS premiered at the Folkteatern in Gothenburg in 2012 . This was followed by the pieces Pojken och Det Sjungande Trädet (about Isaac Grünewald ) and Dr Alzheimer .
At the end of March 2020, Åsbrink was the first to publicly criticize the Swedish way of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in an essay .
Åsbrink is married to a Dane; she lives and works in Stockholm and Copenhagen .
Works (selection)
- Smart points: Lars Norén, pjäsen Sju tre och morden i Malexander . Stockholm: Nature & Culture, 2009 ISBN 978-91-27-11880-5
- Bläck: tatueringar, hud, minnen . Photographs Björn Abelin. Stockholm: Nature & Culture, 2010 ISBN 978-91-27-12937-5
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Och i Wienerwald står trades kvar . Stockholm: Nature & Culture, 2011 ISBN 978-91-27-13087-6
- And the trees are still standing in the Vienna Woods: a Jewish fate in Sweden . Translated from the Swedish by Gisela Kosubek . Zurich: Arche, 2014 ISBN 978-3-7160-2710-3
- Räls . Play. Göteborg: Folkteatern Göteborg, 2012
- 1947 . Stockholm: Nature & Culture, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Åsbrink in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Åsbrink in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Elisabeth Åsbrink , website
- Elisabeth Åsbrink , at Spartacus (sv)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Best literary report , in Börsenblatt , June 3, 2014
- ↑ Aldo Keel : A Jewish Fate in Sweden . Review, in: NZZ , July 16, 2014
- ↑ Dagens Nyheter : Corona crises visar att Sverige är ett fredsskadat country
- ↑ a b spiegel.de (June 28, 2020): Interview
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Åsbrink, Elisabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Åsbrink, Elisabeth Katherine (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gothenburg |