Johan Bargum

Johan Bargum

Johan Eric Ragnar Bargum (born May 13, 1943 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish-Swedish writer and director .

Life

Johan Bargum was born in Helsinki in 1943. He studied at the University of Helsinki and worked there at the Lilla Theaters . He belongs to the Swedish- speaking minority in Finland.

Bargum published several novels and short stories , including the novels Sensommar (in German: Nachsommer ) and The first snow ( Den första snön ). He has also written scripts for films, radio plays and numerous plays . One of his most successful pieces is Finns det tigrar i Kongo ?, written together with Bengt Ahlfors . ( Are there tigers in the Congo? ).

Many of Bargum's theater works are designed for children's and youth theater , for example his play The First Snow , which was also published as a novel for children, or Don't call me Sissi! ( Kalla mig inte Sessan! ). It is about a young girl Cecilia, whose father Per, a director by profession, does not care about her. To get the father's attention, she goes to the emergency room of a hospital and forces a fight with her father.

Bargum's works have been translated into various languages ​​including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, and various Scandinavian languages. His plays are performed worldwide.

reception

The femundo portal praised the novel "Nachsommer" as a carefully observed family portrait:

“A short novel that suggests the conflicts and feelings of those involved without telling everything that happened to the end. A book like an impressionist painting that focuses on the rough lines and the mood. "

- femundo.de

Honors

• 2007 Tollanderska priset

Works

prose

• September novella . Mare Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86648-193-0 .
• The first snow , children's book. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23319-5 .
• Sensommar . Söderström & Co., 1993, ISBN 951-52-1464-5 .
• Late summer . Mare Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86648-260-9

Plays

• The first snow . Translated from the Swedish by Regine Elsässer. Theaterverlag Hofmann-Paul, Berlin 2002. (World premiere: Lilla Teatern, Helsinki, March 5, 1996)
• Don't call me Sissi! . Translated from the Swedish by Regine Elsässer. Theaterverlag Hofmann-Paul, Berlin 2002. (First performance: 1996, German first performance. January 22, 2009, Action Theater Kassel)
• Are there tigers in the Congo? (together with Bengt Ahlfors). Translated from Swedish by Renate Beer, Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs GmbH, 2001. (World premiere: Lilla Teatern, Helsinki, 1986; German premiere: Theater im Bauturm, Cologne, 1987)

Radio plays

• The seed capital . Translated from the Swedish by Verena Reichel. WDR, Cologne 1994. (Director: Angeli Backhausen)

Web links

Commons : Johan Bargum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johan Bargum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Johan Bargum in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ To love and want to be loved. femundo.de, May 25, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2018 .