Thomas Funck

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Thomas Fredrik Georg Funck (born October 26, 1919 in Linköping ; † December 30, 2010 in Hallingeberg ) was a Swedish radio play and children's book author , voice actor , musician and screenwriter . He gained fame for his radio plays about the grasshopper Kalle Stropp and the frog Gustav Boll.

Life

Funck was born in Linköping, Sweden, in 1919 as the youngest of four children. He had a sister and two brothers, including the two years older operetta singer Hans "Hasse" Funck. The family belonged to the old Stockholm family Funck; Like his brothers, Thomas Funck bore the title of Friherre (Baron). His parents separated when Funck was little; he grew up with his siblings with their mother. Funck became interested in radio and puppetry from an early age. He put together his own "radio broadcasts" and improvised puppet theater performances in which he spoke all the characters himself.

He left school with a real exam and attended a business school in Bremen during the Nazi era . During this time he bought his first guitar and after the Second World War he devoted himself to writing, singing and painting in Sweden. He tried in vain to be accepted at the Dramatens elevskola . In 1945 Funck published poems in the anthology Ny lyrik, 1945 , and in the following year his first volume of prose, Småstycken, appeared .

In 1945, Funck wrote a story about the grasshopper Kalle Stropp and the frog Gustav Boll (originally Grodan Boll) to cheer up a sick boy in the family. A friend sent the story to Sveriges Radio , which accepted it and had the actor Manne Grünberger speak for the radio in 1945. Then Funck wrote more stories about the animal friends in the series Radioteatern ran on Sveriges Radio and recordings by actors.

Funck had his breakthrough in the fall of 1954 with his own radio program, Här kommer Kalle Stropp . He spoke to all the characters himself, wrote the script, wrote the music and developed the sound effects. Funck's fairy tale world - the figure repertoire that had meanwhile included Kalle and Gustav, the tin robot Blech-Niklas (Plåtniklas), the parrot (papegojan), the chicken (hönan) and the fox (räven) - was now not only on the radio (including the Children's program Snurran ): Nils Egerbrandt published Kalle-Stropp-Comics in the magazine Husmodern from 1954 , from 1955 stories about Kalle Stropp appeared as a children's book and Funck appeared with the characters as puppets in stage shows and on television. From December 1955 the play Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner was shown at the Oscar Theater in Stockholm , with Jan Malmsjö taking on the role of Kalle Stropp and Eric Stolpe that of Gustav Boll; Directed by Hasse Funck. In 1956, the first feature film Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner, was released in the cinema, for which Funck wrote the script, dubbed most of the actors and composed the film music.

From 1960 Funck worked as a lecturer at a drama school for children for around 30 years. In the late 1960s, the popularity of Funck's world of figures initially declined. The frog Gustav Boll - spoken by Thomas Funck - took on a new role on the radio from 1970. In the weekly radio show Veckans tisdag he could be heard until 1977 with "Aunt Anita" (Anita Lindman) and the puppet Televinken (spoken by Ola Lundberg; both became known on the radio as Anita och Televinken from 1964 ). Excerpts from the show were also released on LP.

In 1951, Funck had married for the first time and had a son. In 1975 he married the second marriage to the voice actress and puppeteer Eva Årlin; this marriage also had a son. From the 1970s, Funck withdrew more into private life. However, he could still be heard on the radio, from 1980 with the characters Kalle Stropp and Gustav Boll in the radio series Radio Kallopps . His last major projects were the two cartoons Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll (1987) and Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll på svindlande äventyr (1991), for which he wrote the script, the music and the main characters.

Funck had already been diagnosed with cancer in the 1990s, but it was successfully treated. He died on December 30, 2010 after a brief, serious illness. In response to his death, the Sveriges Radio P1 changed its program and on January 5, 2011 broadcast a series of Barnkulturradions favoriter [ Tr .: Kinderkulturradiolieblinge] from 1997, in which Funck reported on the genesis of the stories about Kalle Stropp and Gustav Boll .

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1952: Kalle Stropp och lopporna
  • 1954: Kalle Stropps Födelsedag
  • 1955: Kalle Stropp och Bagare Boll
  • 1956: Kalle Stropp och Grodman Boll
  • 1957: Kalle Stropp och Sitting Boll
  • 1957: Kalle Stropp och Gubben Glömsk
  • 1959: Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll: Undervattensäventyret
  • 1961: Grodan Bolls Rymdfärd
  • 1975: Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll i grön galosch
  • 1979: Grodan Boll och Kalle Stropp i rök och damm

Publications (selection)

  • 1945: Ny lyrik, 1945 - anthology, published in Stockholm
  • 1946: Småstycken - Albert Bonnier Verlag, Stockholm
  • 1956: Med grodan Boll och Kalle Stropp på Barnens dag - Tiden, Stockholm (with illustrations by Einar Norelius )
  • 1956: Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll på äventyr med flotten - Tiden, Stockholm (with illustrations by Einar Norelius)
  • 1956: Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll och räven och papegojan och hönan och Plåtniklas och vaktparaden och många andra - Tiden, Stockholm (with illustrations by Einar Norelius)
  • 1957: Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och en baddare - Tiden, Stockholm (with illustrations by Einar Norelius)
  • 1958: Upptäcksresanden Kalle Stropp och hans passopp Grodan Boll - Tiden, Stockholm (with illustrations by Einar Norelius)
  • 1963: Kalle Stropp och hans vänner - Tiden, Stockholm (with illustrations by Einar Norelius)
  • 1988: Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll räddar Hönan - Semic, Sundbyberg
  • 1998: Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll - Lind & Co, Stockholm (new edition)
  • 1999: Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll på flotten - Lind & Co, Stockholm (new edition)
  • 2000: Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och en baddare - Lind & Co, Stockholm (new edition)
  • 2001: Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll på upptäcktsresa - Lind & Co, Stockholm (new edition)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4. Walter de Gruyter, 2004, p. 1593.
  2. ↑ Overview of the Funck family (Tab 9) on adelsvapen.com
  3. ^ A b Pontus Holmgren: Thomas Funck . Fokus.se, January 28, 2011.
  4. ^ Ny lyrik on worldcat.org
  5. ↑ a b c Anders Holmqvist: Kalle Stropp blev consoles för sjukling . dn.se, December 29, 1999.
  6. ↑ a b c d Commentary Svensk filmografi on sfi.se
  7. ^ Alfred Paulus: Swedish feature film production 1955–1963 . G. Narr, 1984, p. 231.
  8. ↑ Grodan Boll's skapare avliden . aftonbladet.se, December 31, 2010.
  9. ↑ Barnkulturradions favorite figure: Thomas Funck . sverigesradio.se, January 4, 2011.
  10. ↑ Background to the broadcast on sverigesradio.se.
personal data
SURNAME Funck, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funck, Thomas Fredrik Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish author and musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Linkoping
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2010
Place of death Hallingeberg