Lars Norén
Lars Norén (born April 9, 1944 in Stockholm , † January 26, 2021 in Stockholm) was a Swedish poet , playwright and stage director .
Life
Born in Stockholm in 1944, Norén grew up in Genarp and Lund . He began his literary work as a poet. Between 1962 and 1980 a volume of his poems was published in Sweden almost every year. He had his first contact with the theater in 1961/62 as an assistant director in Stockholm. It was ten years before his first piece came out. The Fürstenlecker was published in 1972. The breakthrough as a playwright came at the end of the 1970s.
From 1993 Norén also worked as a director. Until May 2005 he was director of the Stockholm “Riksteater”, after which he was head of the Betty Nansen Theater in Copenhagen until the end of 2006 . From 2009 to 2011 he was the director of the Folkteater in Gothenburg . He died of COVID-19 in January 2021 at the age of 76 .
The pieces
Seven - three
At first the family and with it the buried conflicts of the different generations were the focus of his pieces. From the mid-1990s onwards, it was those who were excluded from society that he dealt with in his dramatic work.
The SEVEN THREE received the most attention from the Swedish public . In this play, Norén let convicted right-wing extremists appear. Two of them robbed banks and murdered two police officers while they were outdoors for the theater project.
war
“Krieg” (Swedish: “Krig”) premiered on January 29, 2005 in Bonn on a German-speaking stage. In it a man returns from the war. He's lost his sight . His wife and two young daughters live on a demolished motorway bridge in an unspecified country - hints of Bosnia or another Southeast European country. In conversations and actions, the father tries to get an idea of the extent of the destruction that the war wreaked on his wife, brother and two daughters. Blindness and lies don't let him get very far.
Norén's desolate homecoming piece thrives on the - often drastic - dialogues between the people involved. The actors see the best way out of this misery in fleeing to Germany or to a country of their dreams.
Translations
- The Bees Fathers, Suhrkamp st 117, 1973 - from the Swedish by Dorothea Bjelfvenstam. ISBN 3-518-06617-X .
- Demons, Suhrkamp, 1985 - from the Swedish by Angelika Gundlach
- Nachtwache , Suhrkamp, 1996 - from the Swedish by Angelika Gundlach
- One day system , Suhrkamp, 1999
Awards
- 1978: Gerard Bonnier Poetry Prize
- 1983: Playwright of the Year (Sweden)
- 1985: Kellgren Prize
- 1994: "Pilotpris" (Sweden)
- 2003: Nordic Prize from the Swedish Academy
- 2008: Litteris et Artibus
- 2012: Bellman Prize
- 2017: Selma Lagerlöf Prize
Pieces (selection)
- The Fürstenlecker , 1972
- Night, mother of the day
- Chaos is close to God
- Hebriana
- Night watch
- Demons , 1984
- Bobby Fischer lives in Pasadena , 1990
- Seven - three
- Blood , 1995
- Group 3.1 , 1998, Berliner Schaubühne , 2000
- Shadow Boys , 1999
- Wintering , 2003, Theater Oberhausen , 2015
- Cold , Kammerspiele of the German Theater (Berlin) 2004
- War , 2005
- 3.31.93 , 2013, Schauspiel Köln , 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Lars Norén in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Lars Norén in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Lars Norén in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Plays by Lars Norén on German-speaking stages
- "Hope makes its way out of the dust", General-Anzeiger Bonn from January 31, 2005
- Review of “War” in the “Schwäbische Zeitung online” on January 31, 2005
- "War is somehow terrible", taz from February 5, 2005
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Laages in conversation with Marietta Schwarz: On the death of the playwright Lars Norén - Der Meister des Finsteren , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, broadcast on January 26, 2021, accessed on January 27, 2021
- ↑ Esther Slevogt: The playwright Lars Norén is dead. In: nachtkritik.de. January 26, 2021, accessed January 26, 2021 .
- ↑ * Lars Norén ( Swedish ) In: Nationalencyklopedin . Retrieved January 26, 2020.
- ↑ Poeten och författaren Lars Norén är död. In: Sveriges Radio. January 26, 2021, accessed January 26, 2021 (Swedish).
- ↑ Andreas Rossmann : Einsamkeits-Etudes in Grau , in: FAZ , November 16, 2015, p. 14.
- ^ Kälte , Deutsches Theater Berlin: Review ( memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), March 12, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Norén, Lars |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Swedish poet, playwright and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 2021 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |