Pomperipossa in Monismania
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Pomperipossa in Monismanien is a satirical story by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren , which was published on March 10, 1976 in the Swedish daily Expressen .
Influences on history
The sorceress Pomperipossa was originally the main character in the Swedish story Sagan om Pomperipossa med den långa näsan . Pomperipossa was very rich and lived in a house made of sausages and ham in the woods. The story was written by Axel Wallengren in 1895 .
The land of Monismanien was described in Kenne Fants film Monismanien 1995 . The film is about a fictional, totalitarian society controlled by a single party.
History and effects
Lindgren wrote the fairy tale when she realized she was paying 102 percent tax.
An allegory tells the story of Pomperipossa, who writes books for children in a kingdom far away. Even though she works hard, she only gets 5,000 Swedish kronor (about 475 euros) a year to make a living on. Lindgren also says that you can cut taxes by buying houses and borrowing them. It was an allusion to the then Swedish Finance Minister Gunnar Sträng , who had just done this. By buying a house in 1976, he had to pay very little taxes, even though he had a high income. When Gunnar Sträng read Lindgren's text, he said that she could tell fairy tales, but could not count. However, nobody would expect that from Astrid Lindgren either. In a radio interview, Lindgren countered “... but I expect that from Gunnar Sträng, that he can do it. If someone has said something wrong, it's the tax office that gives me the numbers. Sträng can tell fairy tales, but apparently he can't count. We should swap jobs, he and me. "
Lindgren's story led to a debate over a high marginal tax rate and helped the Social Democrats , the election to the Swedish Parliament lost in 1976, for the first time in 40 years in power.
Even so, Lindgren remained loyal to the Social Democrats for a lifetime, as evidenced by a letter to Ingvar Carlsson in September 1995 . The high marginal tax rates were the result of the Haga consultations between the Social Democrats, the People's Party and the Center Party on March 4, 1975. There, the income tax was lowered. This was done by removing the 7.5-fold upper limit for self-insurance in social insurance. The day after Lindgren's death, January 29, 2002, then Prime Minister Göran Persson admitted that Astrid Lindgren was probably right about her criticism in her fairy tale Pomperipossa .
publication
On March 10, 1976, the story was first published in the Swedish newspaper Expressen .
In Germany it appeared in printed form in 1977 in the Oetinger Almanach. Give us books, give us wings. 15th year 1977. The story was translated by Anna-Liese Kornitzky , who had already translated many other works by Astrid Lindgren into German.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy . December 19, 2007. Archived from the original on August 3, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 19, 2007.
- ↑ http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1602&artikel=776215
- ↑ a b Clas Barkman: Brev från Astrid visar hennes stöd för S . May 16, 2010.
