Thursday, 23 May 2013

Strindberg's Ultimate Writing Hut (Kymendö Diktarstuga); Hemsö är Kymmendö; Skärgården


What more do you want?

A small hut on an island (Kymendö), in the Skärgården/Archipelago

Strindbergsstugan/ Diktarstuga




Engström liked the open sea,
Strindberg loved the islands round-
Somewhere for his thoughts to settle.

A wooden studio on the rocks:
Atelier, folly or writer's hut?

from Strindberg's Island (Corfu Blues, Ars Interpres, 2006)



See photo  Albert Engström's studio-hut, near Grisslehamn


From Albert Engström, Svensk Natur, Sven Barthel, 1982

Strindberg's Paintings

Strindberg and Paintings

Ingmar Bergman, on the influence of Strindberg

Skärgården

Strindberg and the islands
Bo Strömstedt berättar om August Strindberg och hans relation till skärgården. Hemsö är egentligen Kymmendö. Inspirationen till Hemsöborna är hämtad därifrån. Strindberg skrev även Mäster Olof på Kymmendö.

Spanish video

Hemsöborna

Hemsoborna Part 1

Part 2

From The People of Hemso

About Strindberg


Vågorna sjunga

Det är vi, vågorna,

som vagga vindarne

till vila!

Gröna vaggor, vi vågor.

Våta äro vi, och salta;

likna eldens lågor;

våta lågor äro vi.

Släckande, brännande,

tvättande, badande,

alstrande, avlande.

Vi, vi vågorna,

som vagga vindarne

till vila!


Collected Writings online







For an alternative design (more for animal observation than for writing or painting), how about this hut on stilts in Majella, Abruzzo, Italy? It's called the PineCube.















A writer's shed - Louis de Bernières (The Guardian)

"I’ve got two writing places. There’s a shed, next to the vegetable patch, which is a lovely place to write but I can get uptight about the pigeons and squirrels. I tend to write things in there that don’t need any research because you can’t keep many books in a shed or they go rotten. It’s powered by solar panels, which I fitted myself, and heated by a caravan gas heater".


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