COMING IN FALL 2005 TO DEUTSCHES HAUS,
420 West 116th Street, New York City


THE SWEDISH PROGRAM
OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS


Press Release on Fall '05 Swedish Program Events

Tuesday, October 25, at 7 p.m.
NIELS INGWERSEN  (.pdf)
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks in English on "Subversive Storytellers of the North: From Anonymous Iconoclasts to Hans Christian Andersen."

Thursday, November 17
ALVA & GUNNAR  (.pdf)
91 Days in the Long-Distance Relationship
of the Myrdals One Summer During World War II
By Hans Hederberg
A One-Act Play Based on a 2004 Documentary Study of the Nobel Laureates' Personal Correspondence.

In English at 8 p.m.; in Swedish at 6 p.m.
The English version, translated by Verne Moberg and directed by Robert Greer, features Mary Keefe as Alva and Thom Sesma as Gunnar. The Swedish drama, directed by Malin Tybahl, features Elise Rovinsky as Alva and Björn Olsson as Gunnar.