In the new SVT documentary “Lars Norén: The Journey to the Heart of Darkness” director Sindra Grahn describes how Norén’s upbringing in Skåne came to characterize his entire writing.
The film is available from April 19 on SVTPlay and is also shown on SVT2 April 26 at 20:00.
– Lars Norén grew up in a sense on a theater stage. The guests came and went. Some had their farms swept away, others died in their hotel rooms, says Sindra Grahn.
Unfortunate upbringing
The family had moved down from Stockholm to run the hotel. The building still stands in central Genarp as a somewhat forgotten memorial to an unhappy upbringing marked by bullying, loneliness and the parents’ chaotic marriage.
The bleak childhood memories would eventually form the basis of Norén’s first big success “Night is the mother of the day”, the first in a trilogy of plays about the dysfunctional family’s life in the Scanian hotel.
Watch clips from the documentary about Lars Norén’s upbringing in Scania – and come along to the hotel in Genarp that stayed with him forever.