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Bjørneboe and Barba

Was Bjørneboe a greater novelist than a playwright?




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

Elsa Kvamme, today a film director, was asked by Eugenio Barba almost 20 years ago to make a book based on the unpublished letters between him and Jens Bjørneboe (see also interviewed with Therese Bjørneboe). Pax Forlag joined Dear Jens, dear Eugenio in 2004. Kvamme was once one of the few who entered his theater school (Odin Teateret) in Denmark.

I ask Kvamme about Beard: "I know him well as a professional, person and artist. He has retained the indignation of his youth, and continues with rebellious theater. It is touching to see how Bjørneboe's poems are still often included in the performances, translated into many languages. "

The book describes Barba as a success, while Bjørneboe struggled with dark forces: “They were also different. Barba is an officer's son, went to military school, while Bjørneboe came from a wealthy family, he was probably not even in the military. Barbas' theater is also very physical, demanding, which precludes drinking too much. "

And as shown in the movie The Art of the Impossible em> # (2018), som #Kvamme made about Barba, Barba mentions that despite all possible pessimism, one must act, and he made theater. At the same time, he shared with Bjørneboe a great interest in the problem of evil.

The two tried to establish a magazine, and here Kvamme comments: "It is beautiful that Bjørneboe's daughter Therese has realized the old dream of a great way. Many people today regard magazines as something that has gone out of their way date that everything must be digital. But life is not just the shortest rational way either. "

Brecht and Grotowski

Bjørneboe himself has stated that he had 16 years more experience as a writer than a playwright: "Yes, he is a greater novelist than a playwright. He stands in the Brecht tradition, but did not have the same touch as him, who worked so closely in the theater. Bjørneboe did not have as many prominent directors as Barba, who understood his dialectic and humor. But Bjørneboe loved the theater, and was himself a theatrical person, he liked to make a fuss – something you are rejected for in Norway, you have to be so nice. "

For Kvamme, it was tragic that his temperament did not fit. She means he, like Barbas Odin Theater, should have its own theater. Bjørneboe's essays on theater are good – Kvamme thinks he really had a sense of drama. But just as tragic was the fact that he never got time to travel to Poland and Grotowskis environment, where Barba was: «It boiled down in Poland, the actors were good at translating texts. It could have been a turning point in his life. He tried, but did not get off, partly because of family responsibilities as a father of small children. "

And Kvamme himself? 'Already after I had read Jonas, was my life changed. It and Summerhill made me end up in anarchist Experimental Gym! ”

Dear Jens, dear Eugenio is long sold out, but available at libraries. Kvamme is now hoping in the anniversary year for a paper version to be considered.

The Art of the Impossible, the documentary about Barba, shown at Vega Scene in Oslo 8.10., with a conversation between Kvamme and Barba. The film will also be shown at the National Library on 13.10.

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Truls Lie
Truls Liehttp: /www.moderntimes.review/truls-lie
Editor-in-chief in MODERN TIMES. See previous articles by Lie i Le Monde diplomatique (2003–2013) and Morgenbladet (1993-2003) See also part video work by Lie here.

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