Kar de Mumma

Erik Zetterström at the Katarina hoist

Kar de Mumma (actually: Erik Harald Zetterström * 14. August 1904 in Stockholm , † 7. July 1997 ) was a Swedish writer, Revue writers, and commentary writer. His pseudonym clearly shows the humor of the owner - kardemumma is the Swedish word for cardamom .

life and work

His father was a glossy writer and Erik followed in his footsteps. His first book, I pappas fotspår , was published in 1922. Among his more than 90 books there are mostly collections of newspaper columns, but also novellas and autobiographical works. His youth books Två år i varje klass (Two years in each class, 1923) and Sigge Nilsson och jag (Sigge Nilsson and I, 1926) became well known.

His desire to become an actor resulted in several smaller roles in the 1920s, but eventually he began writing plays for the theater. He created skits for the revues by Ernst Rolf and Karl Gerhard and in 1929, together with Karl-Ewert, the first complete revue entitled Stockholm-Motala . From 1937 he produced his own revues, mainly for the Folkteatern stage in Stockholm's Östermalm district . Until 1978 these were well known institutions in Stockholm's cultural life.

Kar de Mumma's glosses were mainly published in Svenska Dagbladet . More than 20,000 of these glosses were written by the 1990s. He amused himself with his readership of upper-class women, to whom he attributed: " that they are unhappy if they do not have their Kar de Mumma brought to bed every morning ".

Filmography

• 1981 - Sopor
• 1975 - Släpp fångarne loss, det är vår!
• 1972 - Anderssonskan's Kalle
• 1972 - Men som slutade röka
• 1971 - Äppelkriget
• 1964 - Svenska pictures
• 1926 - Flickan i frack
• 1926 - Flickorna på Solvik
• 1920 - Trollsländan

literature

• Conny Svensson: Pli på pojkar. Från Dumas till Kar de Mumma . Atlantis, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-7353-277-8

Web links

• Erik Zetterström in the Internet Movie Database (English)