Monday, November 30, 2015

Claes Elfsberg moved after the last “News” – Aftonbladet

On Monday evening, made the news anchor Claes Elfsberg his last transmission is in SVT’s News.
After the broadcast hug, he was with colleagues who sang “He’s a jolly good fellow”.

– It feels a little sad and melancholy to leave a job that I really enjoy, he says.

Claes Elfsberg turned 67 in November and therefore he is forced to leave his permanent employment at SVT. Monday evening, he was the host of his last “News” and at the end of the broadcast was shown a small potpourri from his time at SVT. It Claes Elfsberg not know was that the closest colleagues had gathered outside the studio to thank him. When the news anchor stepped out of the studio, they began to sing “He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” and Claes Elfsberg was noticeably moved when he hugged her colleagues.

– It feels good, a little bittersweet like that. A little sad and melancholy to leave a job that I really like but it’s also great fun to be courted, get a drink and beautiful flowers and so, he says to Aftonbladet.



“It has been like an extended family “

Claes Elfsberg started working on TV in the 1970s, and after 40 years on the” Report “he has been called” Mr. Report “. In recent years he has also been the host of “News” and it’s tough for him to leave his colleagues.

– It is among the worst. Here I have enjoyed very good. It has been like an extended family where I felt safe and happy. I’ve had fun with these colleagues who not only are cozy people but also extremely knowledgeable and professional colleagues. I have always felt safe to work in this collection of people. It is also important, he said.

READ ALSO Slideshow: Elfsbergs long television career

Over the years, he has reported on many major news events and some news events he remembers particularly well.

– The big, transformative, bewildering news was when the superpowers ceased to threaten each other with nuclear weapons every eternal day and when the Iron Curtain was lifted in Europe. When we got new neighbors we hardly knew, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. When Poland became free, and so on. It is the huge change. I hardly believe that you are younger can imagine the misery we lived in before. A Europe that was abruptly separated by a barrier in the middle, says Claes Elfsberg.

How have you managed to take some of these major news events?

– I usually compare it to the people who work at such an emergency room at a hospital. Staff must not stop to think if they become sad seeing the casualties and seriously ill people. We who work with news distribution relate in a similar way. It can get a little sad and think about things afterwards. Personally, I was very touched by the tsunami. It’s hard to explain but the news grabbed my heart in a way that other news has not done. You get clear of it afterward, he said.



Should freelancing

Now waiting for a life as a freelancer and Claes Elfsberg expect that he will be able to work full time. Initially there will be at least a lot of early mornings for the popular television profile. In January starts his new mission, to be the host of “Good morning Sweden” on Fridays with Marianne Rundström . He thus leaves no SVT brand, however, he had wanted to continue the company as a permanent employee.
– I’m disappointed, not primarily on national television but the way you have to look at retirement in Sweden. It is quite unreasonable that one should have a definite age limit for how long people should be working. Let the people decide it themselves, says Claes Elfsberg.

Cecilia Gralde, news anchor :

– It feels weird. We’ve worked together for almost four years and spent a lot of time together. I have learned a lot from him. He is very good at improvising in the broadcast. He finds himself in different situations and very calm. Then, he is also very caring. A sjyst person.

Nike Nylander, news anchor:

– He is extremely professional, extremely quiet and are so seasoned. He is calm and cool even in very dramatic situations. But what surprised me is his humor. He’s incredibly fun to work with. We have laughed enormously when we worked together. His humor can be a bit unexpected and screwed in from. But it’s fun.

Ulf Johansson Programme national news SVT:

– He is unique as a news anchor and we have assured us that he will continue in us. Starting in January, he will be host of “Good morning Sweden” on TV every Friday and it can certainly be more. As a news anchor, I have never met such a super-professional person of high integrity and capable of almost any situation on the air. It is, I am incredibly impressed.

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Peace and revenge in Melodifestivalen – Helsingborgs Dagblad

– I do not do worse myself than last time, she says.

There are also several other artists who have different kinds of revenge to demand, including Molly Pettersson Hammar, who was one of the top names tipped for years but went directly into the first round.

– It would have been strange if I had felt no sense of revenge. But I will not be driven by it, I’m just happy that I once again get to show who I am, she says.

Oscar Zia was in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest as late as 2014. He wants to take revenge on himself.

– The last time I was with was not so much myself, I could not put myself in the song and the context. That’s my revenge, I now go in with a self written song and get to show exactly what I want to do, says Oscar Zia.

Even now talk , otherwise if Molly Sanden as the big favorite. She was previously a fifth place as the best location but yourself, she cares very little about what happens this time.

– I’m not nervous like that, I just want this song to reach out says Molly Sanden.

contribution “YOUniverse” is she wrote with her boyfriend Danny Saucedo – the idea is that it should “feel hopeful in these troubled times “.

– Instead of trying to make the planet a little better, we do the exact opposite. But the song is a we-feeling, we are all the universe, says Molly Sanden.

David Lindgren, who was in the finals in 2012 and 2013, has a similar theme in his contribution “We are your tomorrow”.

– It is about what is happening in the world now, we have to start taking care of each other and try to get something positive in all this , he says.

Among the artists are also true pop veterans Anna Book, Martin Stenmarck and a trio of Tommy Nilsson, Patrik Isaksson and Marty Robbins .

– We are all here because we love to compete, because we love music and we love to challenge ourselves, says Anna Book.

Melodifestivalen executive producer Christer Björkman are satisfied with the launcher.

– Here are both the width and the tip, it is necessary to have some of these will of course in the end fighting for to represent Sweden in the Eurovision and we have the ambition to take this back. We do not rest, we want to catch up with Ireland, he says.

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Books stringent requirements – for the Eurovision Song Contest – Expressen

Here is Anna Book tough ultimatum on TV to set up the “Eurovision Song Contest 2016″.

Schlager Star demanded that crime writer Camilla Läckberg would write her song.

– I said “I’ll have Camilla or there will be nothing,” says Anna Book.

Anna Book is back in popular music. Next year veteran competing in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Heaven for two”. But from the beginning, Anna Book sent another song to SVT, which was rejected.

– I have been asked to attend several times before, but declined. But now I took a private initiative and received a prompt reply to SVT wanted me, but not my song, says Anna Book.

Instead, offered the canal Anna Book another song. But to compete with the song, which was written in English, asked pop star an ultimatum on TV.

– I said I want to sing in Swedish, and I wanted to Camilla Läckberg would write the new text . I said, “I should have Camilla or there will be nothing,” says Anna Book.

READ MORE: How dropped Anna Book 59 kg

Anna Book “Do not be satisfied with Läckberg’s text”

Läckberg accepted the assignment, but was repeatedly rewrite their texts for Books preference.

– I was not happy with Camilla text directly . But it was not she herself either. As we talked, she wrote about it a few times, we met at her and then it was firm, says Anna Book and continues:

– It was hard, but now I’m here to win. I think I can win. This is a winning song.

READ MORE: Anna Book: “Just me and my tits”

Camilla Läckberg in place during the Eurovision Song Contest 2016

Christer Björkman confirm that SVT quickly switched into Camilla Läckberg to write the text.

– Läckberg had sent several songs, but they were not right for us. But when we called about Anna’s song snatched her away. I got a text after two days, Anna had some opinions and then it was firm, says Christer Björkman

Camilla Läckberg will also be in place in the green room during the Eurovision Song Contest next year.

– Camilla will be on the trip. She will be heavily pregnant, so she should wear a glittery gala dress and sit like a disco ball in the green room, says Anna Book.

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“I love every moment ‘- Göteborgs-Posten

Charlotte Rampling is not one of those actresses who complain of fewer roles for older women.

The next year she fills 70 and told TT:

I do not think about aging. I find that I work more than before and I will be offered amazing roles.

Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling plays married couple for 45 years in the drama” 45 years “. PRESS IMAGE. Agatha A. Nitecka

Charlotte Rampling as Kate in the marriage drama “45 years”. PRESS IMAGE. Agatha A. Nitecka

Facts

Facts: Charlotte Rampling

Born: February 5, 1946 in Essex, England.

Family: Two sons since previous marriage to actor Bryan Southcombe and musician Jean Michel Jarre.

Career: Has been shooting in England, France and Italy. More recently, she appeared in the TV series “Dexter” (2013), Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” “Heading South” (2005) and often in François Ozon’s films.

Current: In the role of the married Kate, who may need to reassess their marriage and life in the “45 years”, who receive Swedish theatrical release on 4 December.

This week we can see Rampling and Tom Courtenay, 79, in the drama “45 years”, which will premiere on Friday. They play Kate and Geoff, a couple who will celebrate his forty-fifth wedding anniversary.

Just before get Geoff a letter, where he learns that they have found the body of his former girlfriend, who for more than fifty years ago disappeared during a hike in the Swiss Alps. She had fallen and killed himself and has now found frozen into the ice.



Flips on everything

This turns upside down on Geoff, who starts thinking over what could have been, and whether he should travel to Switzerland to retrieve the body. And this obviously affects Kate’s relationship to him on the eve of the feast.

I read the script right through immediately, which I do not usually do she says when the TT meet her at the Berlin Film Festival (where she and Courtenay few days later to win the festival’s two acting prices). The director Andrew Haigh suggested that Tom Courtenay would play the other lead role, and I thought immediately that it was a brilliant idea.

Both Rampling and Courtenay has long relationships to draw experience from. Charlotte Rampling has two ex-male and lived with the French businessman Jean-Noel Tassez since 1998 until his death in October this year. She knows how everyday life can look like in long relationships.

What we say to each other, how the silence and gaze after so many years sometimes might replace words.

“We just did the”

There’s a sex scene in the film, about which Charlotte Rampling says:

We did not talk about how we would do it, we just did it.

Charlotte Rampling made their film debut in 1965 and has since made more than 100 film and television roles. After the “45 years”, she has already made a series of films and a role in the second round of the TV series “Broad Church”.

All that I previously made has taken me where I am today, and I love every moment of it.
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Veteran years in the contest – Sydsvenskan

– I do not do worse myself than last time, she says.

There are also several other artists who have different kinds of revenge to demand, including Molly Pettersson Hammar, who was one of the top names tipped for years but went directly into the first round.

– It would have been strange if I had felt no sense of revenge. But I will not be driven by it, I’m just happy that I once again get to show who I am, she says.

Oscar Zia was in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest as late as 2014. He wants to take revenge on himself.

– The last time I was with was not so much myself, I could not put myself in the song and the context. That’s my revenge, I now go in with a self written song and get to show exactly what I want to do, says Oscar Zia.

Even now talk , otherwise if Molly Sanden as the big favorite. She was previously a fifth place as the best location but yourself, she cares very little about what happens this time.

– I’m not nervous like that, I just want this song to reach out says Molly Sanden.

contribution “YOUniverse” is she wrote with her boyfriend Danny Saucedo – the idea is that it should “feel hopeful in these troubled times “.

– Instead of trying to make the planet a little better, we do the exact opposite. But the song is a we-feeling, we are all the universe, says Molly Sanden.

David Lindgren, who was in the finals in 2012 and 2013, has a similar theme in his contribution “We are your tomorrow”.

– It is about what is happening in the world now, we have to start taking care of each other and try to get something positive in all this , he says.

Among the artists are also true pop veterans Anna Book, Martin Stenmarck and a trio of Tommy Nilsson, Patrik Isaksson and Marty Robbins .

– We are all here because we love to compete, because we love music and we love to challenge ourselves, says Anna Book.

Melodifestivalen executive producer Christer Björkman are satisfied with the launcher.

– Here are both the width and the tip, it is necessary to have some of these will of course in the end fighting for to represent Sweden in the Eurovision and we have the ambition to take this back. We do not rest, we want to catch up with Ireland, he says.

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Syrian artist in Haparanda processes refuge in his paintings – Swedish Radio

In Haparanda artist Rawaa Khiyachi who fled the war in Syria have been able to paint with the help of the City of Culture. She has borrowed a room at the People’s House in Haparanda, and right now she is busy processing refuge in his paintings.

Samples from culture reportage Nålsögat – cultural encounters on the border

Rawaa do not like to talk about their paintings, but talks about the blue painting is about the escape of the sea from Turkey to Greece. It is a dense tangle of pipes, tubes, arms, eyes, heads twisted and turned. Matted as a sort of big ball or a cloud above the bow of the dinghy.

-This should reflect the panic when we fled by boat, reflect that for a while feel a part of the water in the sea, says Rawaa Khiyachi.

Her style is surreal and often deal with the situation of women and lack of freedom.

Before the war, she could paint like she wanted . But lately she has received threats from extreme Islamists that she must stop painting surreal and so much naked.

I was incredibly scared as soon as someone said something, it was when there was beheadings too. According to them this extreme groups, it is forbidden to paint, especially as a woman. Then was it also because I do not wear traditional clothes, I do not have a veil on me, says Rawaa. You can not force people to wear what they do not want.

She says that when she was young and began painting she dared not at first break with tradition. But surrealism became a way to break with cultural tradition, to find their own way of painting.

-To painting is my way to escape from reality, says Rawaa Khiyachi. But maybe the reality will come out while I paint.

Hear more about Rawaa Khiyachi and other people in Haparanda in Culture Reporter in P1 today at 14:03: “Nålsögat – cultural encounters on the border between Haparanda and Tornio.”

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Melodifestivalen artists revealed – Vasterbotten Courier

Eurovision Song Contest will not begin until February, but today presented the starting field for next year’s competition.

At 9 allows SVT blanket fall from the 28 contributions but several of the prospective performers have been leaked in advance.

Among other states Aftonbladet that well-known pop profiles Linda Bengtzing, Martin Stenmarck and Molly Sanden will be in next year’s competition. Even artists who in recent years has made a name for himself in the Eurovision Song Contest has been a place – as Oscar Zia, Ace Wilder, David Lindgren, dolly style and the year’s breakthrough name Samir & amp; Viktor Isa Tengblad, according to the newspaper.

Last year’s Idol winner Lisa Ajax are also expected to be present when the names are presented today, as Anna Book, After Dark “Wonder Pets” Tommy Nilsson, Marty Robbins and Patrik Isaksson – which behind a grant.

Melodifestivalen 2016 led by gina dirawi with a variety of profiles beside him in the races and finals. The first race is decided in Gothenburg, 6 February, with the final at the Friends Arena outside Stockholm on 12 March.

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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Motörhead set the concert in Aarhus – Expressen

Motörhead forced to cancel another concert in Aarhus.

The guitarist Phil Campbell is still in hospital – but will be flown directly to the gig in Gothenburg.

– he must take it easy on stage, but he will play as it looks Today, says her colleague Mikkey Dee.

The guitarist Phil Campbell was earlier this week acutely ill and had to go to hospital in Berlin. Motörhead had to cancel their concerts in Berlin and Hamburg, that would have taken place this weekend.

“Our brother, guitarist Phil Campbell, has suddenly been hospitalized. He will feel better soon but there is no alternative other than to set the show in Berlin, “wrote the band on their official Facebook page on Friday.

Now, forced metal band set another gig, with only two days left until they are on the stage in Gothenburg.

READ MORE: Motörhead set the concert in Hamburg

The set concert would have been in Aarhus, Denmark, in the morning Monday.

But Mikkey Dee, the drummer of Motörhead, says Phil Campbell are flown in directly from Berlin to the gig in Gothenburg on Tuesday.

– he must take it easy on stage, but he will play as it looks today. Phil is flown in from Berlin and the hospital where, directly to Gothenburg. Then we drive Gothenburg, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki and the gigs in Germany that was moved, he said.

READ MORE: Motörhead sets his concert in Berlin

What Phil Campbell suffered want Mikkey Dee not to tell.

– We know exactly what it is, but we do not want to go out with it right now. It was an emergency situation, now with hindsight, now that he’s repaired, not a danger. There was an emergency and that he’s taken care of.

The reason they canceled the gig in Aarhus, and not moved it to the other gigs, he tells us is that they were short on time.

– We would play less gigs there and we had to be away for ten. At the same time, we must not where Phil in time either, so it was quite natural to set, says Mikkey Dee.

Motörhead play in Gothenburg on Tuesday, December 1st. On Friday, December 4, have the concert in Stockholm.

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Orchestra with women were not allowed to play – Vasterbotten Courier

Tehran Symphony Orchestra was stopped from performing at an Iranian sports events on Thursday. The reason was that female musicians playing in the orchestra.

The conductor Ali Rahbari was told that they had to play 15 minutes before the scheduled time.

– I was offended and said that it is impossible for me to accept such an insult. Either we all play together, or we go, said Rahbari news agency Isna.

According Rahbari thought the organizers that it was absolutely impossible to allow women to play musical instruments on stage.

This is said to be the first time that an appearance of the venerable symphony orchestra has been set with reference to the orchestra, female musicians.

This past year, several artists said that the short notice has been stopped from playing in Iran, despite they had official permission.

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Sven-Bertil Taube gives super hit a new touch – with great results – Nyheter24

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Sven-Bertil Taube gives super hit a new touch – with great results – Nyheter24

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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Artist MIA follow people on the run – Vasterbotten Courier

The artist MIA’s new video “Borders” sets the refugee crisis in the spotlight.

In the video, which is over four minutes long, she follows the refugees on dangerous roads in boats, across the barbed wire and through water. MIA, which is known to show their political position, questioning what the word which, among other things, politics, identities and privileges is really about.

The song and the video is part of her audiovisual projects “Matahdatah” where she directs. The end result will be a full album and movie experience, writes The Guardian.

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Nilsson on Taube: “Wanted to shout” – Sydsvenskan

– I understood the only one who has not heard this great song until right now. I have found myself in another place, it is strange, he said in the program.

Lisa Nilsson, love Mauro Scocco-written song, but while describing it as a “forced marriage”, estimated Sven-Bertil Taube’s ignorance of “Heaven around the corner”.

– So nice that damn song, which followed me so closely, could be non-existent. Or, you know, this is a Swedish classic or it is nothing at all, just a song in outer space, among other songs, says Lisa Nilsson to TT.

When Sven-Bertil then took the whole gang out and performed the song in the green with a white-clad orchestra, several of the artists who shed tears.

– I was impressed by my own muscle control in face inside, I just wanted to shout out straight. There were so many depths in the experience, with the right Sven-Bertil and life and song and Gotland and all of it, says Lisa Nilsson.

Otherwise, she was most impressed by Miriam Bryant’s interpretation of “All I Need”.

– That she turned the concept. You do not sit at home and cry over a man who left, to find a better man. There is such a feminist smash and redress in it, you are allowed to be angry. It was pretty damn liberating and what surprised me the most, says Lisa Nilsson.

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Emmylou Harris’ Jill’s porch “- Västerbotten Folkblad

The next week will host the SVT “Jill’s porch” by none other than the country star Emmylou Harris, type SVT on its website.

Host Jill Johnson has previously said that she must visit “a dream artist” in the current season. Now it is thus clear that it was Emmylou Harris she was referring to.

In a clip on SVT Play, you can already see them singing “Love and Happiness” together.

section, which airs on December 2, will be attended also by the Swedish artist Jerry Williams.

Earlier this year awarded Emmylou Harris along with Evelyn Glennie Polar Prize.

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Connery’s wife indicted for fraud – Västerbotten Folkblad

The actor Sean Connery’s wife threatened with two years in prison and over 200 million in fines for alleged involvement in a real estate network in Spain, writes AFP.

Micheline Roquebrune, 86, is accused in the Spanish Marbella for participation in tax fraud after the couple sold a beach house and an apartment complex built black on the site.

The case, which investigators dubbed ‘Operation Goldfinger’ after a Bond Film , contains another 16 suspects, including Marbella’s former mayor already detained, writes The Guardian.

Investigation leader Alfredo Mondeja chased long Connery himself, but the threat to become an international wanted list added 85-year-old at last with a 56 pages long explanation, and was removed from the investigation.

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The secret behind the game “Idol” -juryns coup – Aftonbladet

Three would be two – then came the shocking news: All three go on.

“Idol” -juryn had managed to get through his secret plan.

– Nobody knew about this, says Alexander Bard of secrecy.

There was total confusion – then euphoria.

“Idol” -juryn announced that the whole “super troika” – Amanda Winberg , 19 Simon Zion , 26, and Martin Almgren , 27 – moved on to the finals, they took both the idols and viewers on the bed.

According to Alexander Bard was also large parts of production that did not know about the “Idol” -juryns coup.

– No one knew about this. There were two at TV4, two in Fremantle (production, editor’s note.) Pär Lernström and we the jury who knew about it, all the others were taken by surprise. Otherwise it would have leaked, so it was just to shut up. We talked not even in our microphones because then the audio bus heard, says Alexander Bard.

READ ALSO Shocked the entire jury with the song

“Then we would have had to set”

He believes that if the secret plan leaked would have cracked.

– When we had to cancel, that’s not possible.

It was on Monday that the jury began to discuss the possibility of taking all three semi-finalists to the final.

– I and Laila were on fire right away, we said that we do, it’s the last year. But then it was Anders who said “what viewers then?”. Yes that’s right, they have to, we have with us also. There was no point in even talking to TV4 and Fremantle if we had an idea that can be implemented, he says and adds:

– First, they will say is “oh so much more work this became suddenly “and” now all shut up, no, we have to do this “.

How difficult was it to keep quiet?

– I do not think it was difficult but Anders Bagge mouthed for her mother last night. I was on the verge to smack him. He tells us all things for his mother.

READ ALSO PLUS After “Idol” – are no longer with the music

TV4 should have been hesitant

“Idol” -finalerna have seen exactly the same in all years . TV4 is now forced to change the whole set-up is a great work and reportedly Nöjesbladet canal was first reluctant to carry out the coup.

Clara Ytterborn , executive producer of “Idol,” wants does not reveal exactly when the decision was taken.

– We have talked to the jury in different rounds during the week, exactly when we heard about the idea, I can not say but the decision was taken during the week.

According to our records, you were first hesitant to do that the jury wanted, what do you say about it?

– Well I can say this, that it was a great decision that we really wanted to think through. We were interested and amused by the idea but you always want to make a good decision.

The change will mean busy days for the “Idol” -The production.

– Yes, there will be lots of additional job because there are three that should have songs in the final. I can not go into exactly everything that we do. But it feels really good that we can do this, what luxury.

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Lennart Hellsing 1919-2015 – The magazine Culture


When Lennart Hellsing been at the Göteborg Book Fair two years ago, we saw him on the way to the train home. He walked light and springy along the carriages (he was ninety-two!) In his bright yellow linen suit. White-haired and with his characteristic beard, he was not unlike an old wise Chinese philosopher. It is a nice image memory having now when he passed away after a long and productive life. His many books will live a long time yet. Jolly Roger on top!

 
 

“Suitable for age group 3-6 years,” it says in publishing advertising for Lennart Hellsing Sjörövarbok . It’s probably a little too narrow a definition, although already very young readers and listeners have fun at Lennart Hellsing rhymes and Poul Ströyers drastic images (some of the previous books were illustrated as memorable by Stig Lindberg, as well otherwise best known for its porcelain Gustavsberg). But you’ll probably have passed the age of six to really appreciate the pages of the book where the pirates have taken in land and amuse himself at a tavern, and what then happens:

 

Captain Boos broke loose / with a nude dancer,
Captain Shame scampered / a skinny Madame
Captain Seven dealt / with a youthful wife
Captain Hook took a Russian / Captain Ace took a Negress,
captain Blenka took a widow / Captain Gris waitress
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Captain Point took it easy / and took care of something young.


 

The line of what Captain Ace made may not be possible to reprint, in anxious times of political correctness when Pippi Longstocking’s father not remain negro king and Omar at Signature Sventon can no longer blacken his face with shoe polish … I do not think there was many, if any, morally outraged parents when Sjörövarbok was fifty years ago, in the middle of the liberated sixties. I imagine that book, like many of his other was carefully tested for a youthful crowd before the manuscript was sent to the children’s book publisher Raben & amp; Sjögren where Astrid Lindgren was one of the grateful recipients.


 

In Helsinki, there are at least a few statues of the versatile Topelius whose tales (he wrote very much more) was loved by young readers both in Finland and elsewhere in Scandinavia. On one of the statues he fairytale uncle who read aloud to four young girls, sedately sitting at his feet. In New York’s Central Park sitting Hans Christian Andersen statue (he does well on the central boulevard in Copenhagen with his name). A Alling soon to be a beautiful swan listening to him, but in summers also flock American kids around him when it is practiced reading aloud from his eventyr. Lennart Hellsing should also have his statue, preferably surrounded by an attentive listening crowd.


 

A good friend, the son of a children’s book critic in Dagens Nyheter and professor emeritus of nuclear physics, has told that Lennart Hellsing happily borrowed other people’s kids and read aloud to them from forthcoming books. It was certainly a good method. Many of his verses are persistent and easily get stuck in the memory: “You dance Mr. Cucumber / both roller and masurka …” He was good to let his figures climb up the ordlianerna: “Krakel spectacle Cousin Vitamin / hung up and threw down a curtain … “And he could be just as drastic as the Brothers Grimm or the Wilhelm Busch’s Max und Moritz :” Now Bagar Bengtsson death / He has burned itself on a bread / and here he lies buried in a loaf. “

 

When the topic children’s literature was a new discipline in the sixties ended Hellsing’s short but eventful writing Thoughts on children’s literature on läslistorna. In the front, he threw the idea that it should set up a children’s institutions. So it also became, thanks to him, and he sat for many years on the board of this energetic institution whose publications now running in a high number – one of the books was H. C. Andersen’s wonderful trips in Sweden, a collection of essays and articles I edited ten years ago, just in time for the anniversary year of 2005.


 

In Denmark, there is another children’s author with almost the same status as Lennart Hellsing in Sweden: Halfdan Rasmussen, known among other things for its Tosserier and playful verses for the younger ages. In both there is the same sense of rhythm and music, the ability to twist and turn words and inventing new combinations – and when Lennart Hellsing försvenskade Rasmussen Danish verses, he did it so that ordekvilibristiken not lost (he also translated, among other things, HC Andersen and Max und Moritz ).

 

When Lennart Hellsing been at the Göteborg Book Fair two years ago, we saw him on the way to the train home. He walked light and springy along the carriages (he was ninety-two!) In his bright yellow linen suit. White-haired and with his characteristic beard, he was not unlike an old wise Chinese philosopher. It is a nice image memory having now when he passed away after a long and productive life. His many books will live a long time yet. Jolly Roger on top!


 

Ivo Holmqvist

 

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