Henning Mankell, 1948-2015
was not much trace of satisfaction, as Henning Mankell was talking on the phone on the refugee crisis a few weeks ago. Rather of a flammable passion. “I am very concerned because I believe that can cleave this question Europe once again,” he said, looking something like a man who was happy in spite of these concerns, even on this issue and not just about his illness to speak, according to who had been in constant demand in the recent past.
The cancer he did not mention. Instead, he warned against a dramatization of the situation, pointed to the still low number of refugees, with which it had to do and advised Europe to political vigilance. In fact, there was hardly a writer who has so long dealt with the fate of refugees so early and how Mankell. Many also of eight detective novels, which he dedicated to the invented by him Wallander, they play a significant role.
Between the Worlds
Mankell’s stance has always been clear. Still on the phone he said recently understanding of the tall tales that many refugees think out in search of a better life: “I suppose I’d also be lying – if you flee to save his life. It would be stupid not to do that. “However, his understanding was not abstract. In the eighties Mankell is left for Mozambique, where he owned a house and since then always spent half of the year. “I have lived twenty years a war zone,” he said, “everyone was affected by the war.” To help, he tried in Mozambique with a theater, whose co-founders he belonged in the eighties and was its director for many years.
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However, on the situation of the Palestinians in the Middle East, which he described as a victim of Israeli “apartheid system “considered, he has drawn attention time and again, most recently as a prominent passengers on that boat that tried to break through 2010, the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip in order to bring the Palestinians supplies -. an action that has earned him much criticism
But this criticism could Mankell get over well, not only because he could be sure because his life between worlds better than others to know of what human dramas actually was talk. But also because it copies some forty million units sold worldwide of his books had brought a degree of independence. With his Wallander Mankell has the Swedish crime novel not only revived, but also made it popular basically – the films of the series, even with the wonderful Krister Henriksson, sometimes with Kenneth Branagh in the title role, testify – not least because they are considered repeats indeed run repeatedly on TV.
© ARD Degeto / Yellow Bird / Left Bank Mankell’s life figure: Kenneth Brannagh as Kurt Wallander
Mankell’s life figure: Kenneth Brannagh as Kurt Wallander
An authority
Here Wallander learned well especially why such a big popularity because he, like many Scandinavian commissioners, was twofold always after him, a loner with social democratic heart, adamant and uncertain, baseless, but in southern Sweden Ystad firmly rooted – in short, an authority that later, when Henning Mankell was forming his crime series with the novel “firewall” of Alzheimer diseased
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the beginning of 2014 is Henning Mankell himself ill with cancer, he then wrote on his website. “My fear is very large,” he wrote in a well in the FAZ published text, “but I can keep it under control on the whole.” Why is he making up his illness not to be, but with the entire world, Mankell founded so that it go here to pain, which concern also many other people. He would write, “how it is”. From this His acting also his last book, the memoir “quicksand”. Now Mankell has died at the age of 67 in Gothenburg.
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