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November

Events Nov 2009

11 - 12 Nov 2009

READING / FILM: Centennial Celebration of Selma Lagerlöf at Columbia University

The Swedish Program at Columbia University presents a two-day celebration of the 1909 presentation of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman and the first Swede to receive the prize.

On November 11 at 7 pm, the program presents a staged reading of the play Loving Selma Lagerlöf by Gunilla Boëthius and Marianne Goldman, translated by Verne Moberg, directed by Robert Greer and featuring Mary Keefe, Elise Rovinsky and Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz.  This new drama is based on recently opened archives of personal correspondence and records, recreating the authentic drama of Lagerlöf's circle.  Entitled Selmas kärlekar (Selma’s Loves) in the original Swedish, the play premiered earlier this year to enthusiastic reviews in Sweden.

On November 12 at 7 pm, the program presents a screening of the award-winning 1997 film Jerusalem, directed by Bille August and based on the classic novel by Selma Lagerlöf.  It is the story of a band of Swedish farmers who sacrifice everything to join an extremist religious cult in the Holy Land, and whose dream of living closer to God turns out be far from what they had imagined.

On both dates, the public is invited, admission is free and donations are welcomed.  Deutsches Haus is located at 420 West 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive. 

Five bus lines (M4, M5, M11, M60, M104) and one subway line (the 1 local) serve the Columbia neighborhood. The Columbia stop is 116th Street. (Do not use express trains 2 and 3, which follow a different route and do not stop at Columbia University; if you do, be certain to transfer at 96th Street to the 1 local.) From the Broadway and 116th Street stop, walk east across campus and cross Amsterdam Avenue, then continue east ½ block to 420 West 116th Street.

> Read more about this and other Swedish events this fall at Columbia

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