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Staffan Göthe

Staffan Göthe

Swedish playwright, actor and director (born 1944)

Lars Staffan Göthe (born 20 December 1944, in Luleå), is a Swedish playwright,[1] actor[2] and director.[3] He is a professor at Malmö Theatre Academy (Teaterhögskolan i Malmö) at Lund University.[4]

Göthe graduated from the Gothenburg Theatre Academy in 1971.[3]

In 2001, Göthe was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal.[5]

Plays by Göthe have been translated into English, German, Finnish[3] and Estonian.[6] His collected plays (22 out of the 23 works he had produced in the period 1971-2001) was published in 2003 as Lysande eländen (approx.: "Brilliant Miseries").[3][7]

List of works

Plays

In English translation

  • A Stuffed Dog (Swedish: En uppstoppad hund; original from 1986, translation by Kim Dambæk) - Also filmed (in Swedish) by Sveriges Television in 2006 and broadcast late that year in the newly started high definition channel SVT HD.
  • One Night in February (Swedish: En natt i februari; original from 1972, translation by Eivor Martinus)
  • The Crying Policeman (Swedish: Den gråtande polisen; original from 1979, translation by Eivor Martinus)

Other

The English titles given are approximate translations.

  • Tjejen i Aspen - The Girl in the Aspen, 1972
  • Nordanvinden eller Den unge Lars i Wexiö skola - The North Wind or the Young Lars Wexiö School, 1973
  • En Järntorgsrevy - An Iron Square Revue, 1974
  • Rosens och Henrikas pjäs - The Play of The Rose and Henrika, 1974
  • Den itusågade damen - The Lady Sawn in Half, 1975
  • Mat & Logi - Food & Lodgings, 1977–1997
  • Den feruketansvärda semällen - The Horibel Bagn, 1978
  • Ballad om en skärbräda - Ballad of a Chopping-Board, 1982
  • Fiskarna i haven - The Fishes In the Seas, 1984
  • Arma Irma - Poor Irma, 1989
  • Den perfekta kyssen - The Perfect Kiss, 1990
  • Boogie-Woogie - Boogie-Woogie, 1992
  • Blått hus med röda kinder - Blue House With Red Cheeks, 1994
  • Ruben Pottas eländiga salonger - Might translate something like The Wretched Lounges of Ruben Chamberpot, 1996
  • Legenderna från Oskarsvarv - The Legends of Oskarsvarv, 1996
  • Homofiler kan inte vissla - Homos can't whistle, 1998
  • Ett lysande elände - A Brilliant Misery, 1999
  • Temperance - English title in original, 2000
  • Byta trottoar - Changing sidewalks, 2001

Screenplay

  • Magic Stronger Than Life - (Swedish Kärlekens himmelska helvete, literally The Heavenly Hell of Love), 1993

Work as actor in film and television

Göthe has, starting with the mini-series Offside in 1971, appeared in several films and TV series, almost all of which are Swedish language productions (an exception is the Norwegian Ballen i øyet from 2000). These include, in addition to those already named (and some others): Agneta Fagerström-Olssons Magic Stronger Than Life (for which he also wrote the screenplay, as mentioned above); two episodes of the Anna Holt television series (1996); Beck – Spår i mörker (1997, part of the long series of TV movies with Peter Haber as Martin Beck); and My Bearded Mother (Swedish: Min skäggiga mamma), a 2003 short film directed by Maria Hedman that won a Guldbagge Award for best short film in 2004 as well as the Grand Prize of European Fantasy Short Film in Silver at Sweden Fantastic Film Festival in 2003.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Staffan Gothe" at dollee.com, "the playwrights database", "Staffan Göthe" at "DramaDirectory - Sweden's largest collection of drama on the Internet"
  2. [2]
    DramaDirectory (as above) and IMDb.
  3. [3]
    DramaDirectory
  4. [4]
    List of teachers at "Teaterhögskolan i Malmö" (Swedish) (viewed 2010-04-30)
  5. [5]
    "medal search" on Swedish Royal Court site: recipients of Litteris et Artibus in 2001
  6. [6]
    "Teater.ee". www.teater.ee. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  7. [7]
    The numbers 22 out of 23 is mentioned in "Göthe gästar Kontext", an interview with Irina Sandström in Luleåmagasinet 28/2 2008, viewable online here (viewed 2010-04-30). The play that has been left out is "En Järntorgsrevy", which Göthe "can no longer read without blushing".
  8. [8]
    Entry for Staffan Göthe at the Internet Movie Database (which also has some additional roles and the names of the characters played), and for some details entries "Ballen i øyet (2000)", "Kärlekens himmelska helvete (1993)", ""Beck" Spår i mörker (1997)", "Min skäggiga mamma (2003)" and "Min skäggiga mamma (2003) - Awards".
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