Staffan Göthe

Staffan Göthe, is a Swedish playwright, actor and director. He is a professor at Malmö Theatre Academy at Lund University.
He was born on 20 December 1944 in Luleå.
Göthe graduated from the Gothenburg Theatre Academy in 1971.
In 2001, Göthe was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal.
Plays by Göthe have been translated into English, German, Finnish and Estonian. His collected plays was published in 2003 as Lysande eländen.

List of works

Plays

In English translation

A Stuffed Dog - Also filmed by Sveriges Television in 2006 and broadcast late that year in the newly started high definition channel SVT HD.
One Night in February
The Crying Policeman

Other

The English titles given are approximate translations.

Screenplay

Magic Stronger Than Life -, 1993

Work as actor in film and television

Göthe has, starting with the mini-series Offside in 1971, appeared in several films and TV series, almost all of which are Swedish language productions. These include, in addition to those already named : Agneta Fagerström-Olssons Magic Stronger Than Life ; two episodes of the Anna Holt television series ; Beck – Spår i mörker ; and My Bearded Mother, a 2003 short film directed by Maria Hedman that won a Guldbagge Award for best short film in 2004 as well as the Grand Prize of European Fantasy Short Film in Silver at Sweden Fantastic Film Festival in 2003.