Kar de Mumma
Kar de Mumma (actually: Erik Harald Zetterström; born August 14, 1904 in Stockholm, † July 7, 1997 ) was a Swedish writer, revue - writer and writer commentary. His pseudonym demonstrates clearly the humor of the owner - Kardemumma is the Swedish word for cardamom.
Life and work
His father was glosses writer and Erik followed in his footsteps. His first book, I pappas fotspår, appeared in 1922. Among his more than 90 books mostly find collections of newspaper columns, as well as short stories and even biographical works. Great visibility gained his early books Två år i varje klass ( Two years in each class, 1923) and Nilsson och jag Sigge ( Sigge Nilsson and I, 1926).
His desire to become an actor, resulted in several minor roles in the 1920s, but eventually he began to write music for the theater. He created sketches for revues by Ernst Rolf and Karl Gerhard and 1929 together with Karl -Ewert, the first complete revue entitled Stockholm- Motala. From 1937 he produced his own revues, mainly for the stage Folkteatern in the Östermalm district. Until 1978, this well-known institutions in the Stockholm cultural life were.
Kar de Mummas glosses were published mainly in Svenska Dagbladet. Of these glosses are sprung up in the 1990s, about 20,000. He amused himself about his readership of upper class women, which he attributed to " that they are unhappy if they do not get their Kar de Mumma brought to the bed every morning ."