Helena von Zweigbergk

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Helena von Zweigbergk (2011)

Helena Johanna von Zweigbergk (born February 18, 1959 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish author , journalist and company reviewer .

Life

Von Zweigbergk grew up with two sisters with a single mother in the Stockholm district of Östermalm . Her parents divorced when she was three years old. She studied at Stockholm University .

In the 1990s, von Zweigbergk became famous for the popular Swedish radio program Spanarna . She made her aesthetic literary debut with a crime series about the prison pastor Ingrid Carlberg. The first book in the series “Was Gott nicht sah” was a great success in Sweden in 2001 and was also published in German in 2005. The report book “Priset man betalar för att slippa kärlek” (something like: What it costs not to love ), published in 1994 together with journalist Cecilia Bodström , deals with the subject of prostitution . Von Zweigbergk also wrote several film reviews for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter as well as children's books. With the work "Tusen skärvor tillit" (about: a thousand shards of trust ) from 2005, she introduced a new style of her writing that illuminates everyday life with a clear view. She examines the efforts of ordinary people to find their own point of view in their existence and examines their relationships with their closest confidants. With “Ur vulkanens mun” (for example: From the mouth of the volcano ), she achieved a broad breakthrough in Sweden, both among readers and critics.

The novel “Än klappar hjärtan”, published in 2013, tells the story of three sisters whose lives have changed dramatically. The first meets an old love, the second is in an economic crisis and the third suffers from an illness. It is reported how little loved ones know about each other.

Von Zweigbergk worked as a journalist for the newspaper Expressen and from 2006 to 2007 as program director for the Swedish television show Filmkrönikan . She lives in the Stockholm district of Södermalm . She has two children with her husband, the writer Bengt Ohlsson . Her half-sister is the politician Amelie von Zweigbergk .

Works

  • 1994: "Priset man betalar för att slippa kärlek" (together with Cecilia Bodström)
  • 2001: "Måste vara en prinsessa" (children's book, illustrations by Jens Ahlbom )
  • 2001: "Det Gud inte såg" (German: What God did not see , 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-15793-8 )
  • 2003: "Kärleken skär djupa spår" (German: Im Schatten der Sünde , 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-15794-5 )
  • 2004: "Hon som bar skammen"
  • 2004: "Svarta diamanter: elva berättelser om liv och död"
  • 2005: "Tusen skärvor tillit"
  • 2006: "Fly for livet"
  • 2008: "Ur volkanens mun"
  • 2009: "Sånt man bara säger"
  • 2012: "Anna och Mats bor inte här Längre"
  • 2013: "Än klappar hjärtan"
  • 2015: "Kärleken till livet" (German: Listen to my heart / Meine Liebe zum Leben , 2016, Edel Verlag, translator: Ulrike Brauns, co-author Marie Fredriksson , ISBN 978-3841904881 )
  • 2018: "Totalskada" (German: Totalschaden , 2020, Nagel und Kimche Verlag, translator: Hedwig M. Binder)

Web links

Commons : Helena von Zweigbergk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cecilia Gustavsson: Jag skäms över hur jag brer ut mig. Aftonbladet, August 30, 2013; accessed February 1, 2014 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ Helena von Zweigbergk on Facebook.com
  3. ↑ Biography at Norsteds-Verlag
  4. ^ Radio P1: Helena von Zweigbergk. June 23, 2009, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved February 1, 2014 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Zweigbergk, Helena von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zweigbergk, Helena Johanna von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish author, journalist and film reviewer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm