Leif Zern
Leif Åke Zern (born July 6, 1939 ) is a Swedish writer and theater critic .
Life
From 1964 to 1966 Zern worked for the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen and from 1982 to 1993 as head of the culture department for the newspaper Expressen . He was a theater critic for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter from 1968 to 1982 and has continued this activity there since 1993.
Zern published books on William Shakespeare and the director Ingmar Bergman ( Se Bergman ). For many years he followed and commented on contemporary European drama . In 2006 a German translation of the book Das Leuchtende Dunkle about the writer Jon Fosse , whom he has known since his beginnings in the mid-1990s, was published.
Today Zern lives in Uppsala .
Works (selection)
- Omvänd kikare , 1963
- Don Quixote: ett skådespel om liberalismens omöjlighet (together with Ronny Ambjörnsson), 1971
- Älskaren och mördaren: Shakespeare och den andra spelplatsen , 1984
- Venus armar: essäer , 1989
- Se Bergman , 1993
- The shining dark: On Jon Fosses Dramatik (Swedish: Det lysande mörkret: Jon Fosses dramatik ), 2006, ISBN 978-3980823173
Web links
- Literature by and about Leif Zern in the catalog of the German National Library
- Leif Zern in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography from Nationalencyklopedin (Swedish), accessed on March 20, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Dagens Nyheter, October 26, 2010 (Swedish), accessed March 20, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zern, Leif |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zern, Leif Åke (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer and theater critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1939 |