Håkan Nesser

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Håkan Nesser (2012)

Håkan Nesser (born February 21, 1950 in Kumla ) is a Swedish writer who is best known for his crime novels.

Life

Håkan Nesser was born on February 21, 1950 as the son of the farmer Sven August Nesser and his wife, the clerk Maria Olivia, on a farm near Kumla. In 1953 his father sold the farm in order to cultivate leased fields from then on. So the family moved to Kumla, where Håkan Nesser spent his childhood and youth. He attended elementary school and secondary school in Kumla, then the grammar school in Hallsberg , where he graduated from college in 1968. He then began to study literary history , Scandinavian studies , history , philosophy and English at Uppsala University . Soon he moved to the college for teachers to become a high school teacher for Swedish and English. From 1974 he worked in Märsta as a high school teacher. In 1998 Nesser gave up his job as a teacher and became a freelance writer. In August 2006, he and his second wife, Elke, a psychiatrist, settled in Greenwich Village, New York. A few years later, the couple relocated to London.

Literary work

He started writing novels in the 1980s. In 1988 Nesser made his debut with the novel Koreographers. In 1993, Det grovmaskiga nätet (German: Das grobmaschige Netz) appeared, the first volume in the Van Veeteren crime novel series. The book was awarded the Swedish Crime Prize as best debut of 1993 and was not only a bestseller in Sweden. By 2003 a total of ten volumes of the crime series about Commissioner Van Veeteren had been published .

As the setting for the novels in the Van Veeteren series, Nesser has constructed a European-looking fictional country with the capital Maardam. Place and person names as well as landscape descriptions cannot be clearly assigned. Northern Europe is mentioned several times in the novels. Some names and the currency guilder are reminiscent of the Netherlands, but there are also often German, Polish or Baltic-sounding names and places. Scandinavian locations were chosen for the films.

Along with Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson, Håkan Nesser is one of Sweden's most important crime writers.

With Mensch ohne Hund , Nesser started a new crime series in 2006. The main character is criminal inspector Gunnar Barbarotti, who is investigating in Kymlinge, a fictional place in western Sweden. The fifth Barbarotti case with the title Styckerskan från Lilla Burma was published in Sweden in 2012 and under the title On the evening of murder in Germany.

All of Nesser's crime novels are less about action than about psychology and philosophy of life. At the end of the story, various questions often remain unanswered.

Film adaptations, radio plays and audio books

Nesser's 1998 novel Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö ( Kim Novak never bathed in the Sea of ​​Galilee ) was made into a film in 2005 and has become school reading in many places in his home country. From 2000 to 2005, six crime novels from the Van Veeteren series were filmed by the Swedish television company SVT and also broadcast several times in Germany on ARD . The Germany radio Berlin produced since 2001 been three detective radio plays by Nesser novels, as well as several audio books have been published in German.

The German short film any proceedings by Dustin Loose based on the eponymous short story Håkan Nesser and was established in 2015 with the Student Academy Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded.

In 2018, the first part of a trilogy based on short stories by Nesser published in the 90s was published with Intrigo - Death of an Author by director Daniel Alfredson . Intrigo - Samaria and Intrigo - Dear Agnes followed in 2019 .

Awards

Works

The Commissioner Van Veeteren novels

  1. 1993 Det grovmaskiga nätet
  2. 1994 Borkmann's point
  3. 1995 Återkomsten
  4. 1996 Kvinna med födelsemärke
    • The woman with the birthmark, German by Christel Hildebrandt, Munich: btb 1998. ISBN 3-442-72280-2
  5. 1997 Commissaries och tystnaden
    • The Commissioner and the Silence, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: Goldmann 2001. ISBN 3-442-75075-X
  6. 1998 Fall of Münster
    • Münster's Fall, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: Goldmann 2000. ISBN 3-442-75043-1
  7. 1999 carambola
    • The unfortunate murderer, German by Gabriele Haefs; Munich: Goldmann 2001. ISBN 3-442-72628-X
  8. 2000 Ewa Moreno's case
  9. 2001 Svalan, katten, roses, dozen
    • The swallow, the cat, the rose and the death, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: Goldmann 2003. ISBN 3-442-73325-1
  10. 2003 Fallet G
  11. 2018 De vänsterhäntas förening

The Inspector Barbarotti novels

  1. 2006 Mannniska utan dog
  2. 2007 Similar to annan historia
  3. 2008 Consultation with Mr. Roos
  4. 2010 De ensamma
  5. 2012 Styckerskan från Lilla Burma
  6. 2020 The carefree bus show fran Alster

Other

  • 1988 coreographer
  • 1996 Barins triangel (trilogy of novels)
    • Barin's triangle, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: Goldmann 2003. ISBN 3-442-73171-2
  • 1997 Ormblomman från Samaria (detective novel)
    • The wild orchid from Samaria, German by Christel Hildebrandt, contained in From Doctor Klimke's Perspective , 2007, pp. 89–181.
  • Cover of the German edition of Kim Novak never bathed in the Sea of ​​Galilee
    1998 Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö (novel)
  • 1999 Flugan och evigheten (detective novel)
    • The Fly and Eternity, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: btb 2006. ISBN 3-442-75053-9
  • 2002 Kära Agnes! (Detective novel)
  • 2002 Och Piccadilly Circus ligger inte i Kumla (youth novel)
    • And Piccadilly Circus is not in Kumla, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: Goldmann 2002. ISBN 3-442-75094-6
  • 2004 Skuggorna och rnet (crime novel)
    • Die Schatten und der Regen, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: btb 2005. ISBN 3-442-73647-1
  • 2005 Från Doktor Klimkes horisont ( short stories)
    • From Doctor Klimke's perspective, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: btb 2007. ISBN 3-442-75147-0
  • 2009 Maskarna på Carmine Street (novel)
  • 2010 Sanningen i fall Bertil Albertsson? (Novel)
    • The truth about Kim Novak and the murder of Berra Albertsson, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: btb 2010. ISBN 978-3-442-75291-1
  • 2011 Himlen över London (novel)
  • 2013 Levande och döda i Winsford (novel)
  • 2014 Straff (novel)
  • 2015 Elva dagar i Berlin (novel)
  • 2016 Eugen Kallmanns ögon (novel)

Filmography

  • 2000: Håkan Nesser - Das grobmaschige Netz (TV film / Sweden / Det grovmaskiga nätet ), director: Martin Asphaug
  • 2001: Håkan Nesser - The Wrong Judgment (TV film / Sweden / Återkomsten ), director: Martin Asphaug
  • 2001: Håkan Nesser - The woman with the birthmark (TV film / Sweden / Kvinna med födelsemärke ), director: Martin Asphaug. Nesser has a small acting appearance.
  • 2005: Kim Novak never bathed in the Sea of ​​Galilee
  • 2005: The unfortunate murderer (TV film / Sweden / Carambole ), director: Daniel Lind Lagerlöf . Nesser has a small acting appearance.
  • 2005: Håkan Nesser - Münsters Fall (TV film / Schweden / Münsters fall ), directed by Rickard Petrelius
  • 2005: Van Veeteren - The fourth victim; also: Håkan Nesser - The fourth victim (TV film / Sweden / Borkmanns point ). Director: Erik Leijonborg
  • 2006: Håkan Nesser - Moreno and the Silence (TV film / Sweden / Moreno & tystnaden ), directed by Erik Leijonborg
  • 2006: Håkan Nesser - The Swallow, the Cat, the Rose and Death (TV film / Sweden / Svalan, katten, rosen, döden ), director: Daniel Lind Lagerlöf
  • 2006: Håkan Nesser - Van Veeteren's worst case (TV film / Sweden / Fallet G ), directed by Rickard Petrelius
  • 2009: Håkan Nesser - Inspector Barbarotti: Mensch ohne Hund (TV film / Germany), director: Jörg Grünler , screenplay: Serkal Kus
  • 2011: Håkan Nesser - Inspector Barbarotti: Contempt (TV film / Germany), director: Hannu Salonen , screenplay: Serkal Kus
  • 2014: And Piccadilly Circus is not in Kumla (Film / Schweden / Och Piccadilly Circus ligger inte i Kumla ), directed by Bengt Danneborn
  • 2014: Settlement of a thing (short film / Germany), director: Dustin Loose
  • 2018: Intrigo - Death of an Author, Director: Daniel Alfredson
  • 2019: Intrigo - Samaria, directed by Daniel Alfredson
  • 2019: Intrigo - Dear Agnes, directed by Daniel Alfredson

Audio productions in German

  • 2001: The fourth victim , production: Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • 2002: The woman with the birthmark , production: Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • 2003: The wrong judgment , production: Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • 2003: Kim Novak never bathed in the Sea of ​​Galilee, Production: Brigitte Audiobook Edition - Strong Voices "The Men"
  • 2014: On the edge of the catskills based on the novel The Gardener's Perspective, adaptation and direction: Irene Schuck, production: Deutschlandradio Kultur

literature

  • Jeanette Schröter: Religion in the Swedish detective novel. The Swedish thrillers by Larsson, Mankell and Nesser. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag 2015 (Diss. Hannover) ISBN 978-3-8288-3528-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German students win Oscars. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , September 17, 2015, accessed January 16, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Critique of Intrigo: Death of an Author. In: epd-film.de. September 21, 2018, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Palle Rosenkrantz Prisen on litteraturpriser.dk
personal data
SURNAME Nesser, Håkan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish crime novel writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kumla