So can norwegians save 4,25 billion in interest expenses BERGEN/OSLO (Dagbladet): – Fight for everything you hold dear, die if it comes, ” says Christian Richardt in the “Always brash”. But I dare it? ask Bjarte Hjelmeland (50).

Coronaepidemien has affected the Culture of Norway hard, but the creativity doesn’t stop at an invisible virus. Artists and musicians offers nettkonserter, and is now doing the well-known actress the same.

Take the “Terje Vigen” online “A GRÅSPRENGT A”: Bjarte Hjelmeland as Terje Vigen “on the edge of the nøgne ø”. Photo: Simon Tonev Show more

– There are rare times, of course I am influenced by what happens around us. I have no things to do, had to cancel three performances with the “Yes!” at the Chat Noir. So I took the fram “Terje Vigen”, which is perhaps more topical now than ever. Tomorrow, Sunday, at 17, people can go into this link and see and hear, ” says Hjelmeland.

He says that he himself is healthy, but calling his old father every day and gives him the “instructions”.

We bleed

He manages himself well, but I follow him up and hear that it is good. My father is in the risk group, and I don’t want that to happen him something, ” says Hjelmeland, who will that we are to seek comfort and strength in the ancient words of Henrik Ibsen.

Cowardice or courage

“Terje Vigen” is an artistic work Hjelmeland keep coming back to. He believes it is a fantastically good story – not least because it is mighty epic is so well and accurately describes how we humans handle crises.

COMFORT: on the edge of the Viksøy outside Bergen reads Bjarte Hjelmeland Ibsen’s “Terje Vigen” to strengthen and comfort – here together with filmtemet. Photo: Simon Tonev Show more

– How to turn crises on the individual and the relationship between us? he asks, and answers:

– Who I become in a crisis? is a question many with me many people ask themselves. I am one of those who shut themselves up in the crowd to get a place in the lifeboats, or I become a Terje Vigen, which defies all danger and risk your life to save those I care about.

Perilous voyage

the Backdrop for Terje Vigen is the napoleonic wars at the beginning of the 1800s. Denmark-Norway was at war with England, and a kornblokade led to famine in Norway. Old legends tell that the people set out on perilous voyages to Denmark to retrieve the grain – also Terje Vigen.

– I’ll pick the poem up when I myself, some I love, our country or the world as a whole is in crisis.

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In 2002, I read the poem in NRK-Radioteateret as a direct consequence of the attack on New York city and the Twin Towers. That time, there was revenge – and tilgivelsesaspektet that was the most prominent, ” he says.

“on the edge of a nøgen ø”

In these covid-19-times see the actor communications between us and Ibsen’s epic. He mentions isolation, agility and the need to make wise and courageous choices influence this war we fight every day.

– Maybe we can find the courage and power in the dramatic battles Terje Vigen is in, both on the outer and the inner plan, ask Hjelmeland.

MAN AND the SEA: Bjarte Hjelmeland, the middle-aged man and the sea. Photo: Simon Tonev Show more

He was in Bergen when Norway was closed, and chose to be there. Earlier this week he took with him a photographer, and went to the edge of the island Viksøy outside Sotra, where he read the poem – with an introduction together with historian Erik Aarebrot.

With the family in Bergen

– I live for the time together with my brother and his family in Bergen. I could have gone home to Oslo, but there is so much stussligere. In Oslo, I would have been completely alone. Then it is cozy to have the family you love around them.

FEEDS: – Many streams concerts. It gave with the idea to stream “Terje Vigen”, says Bjarte Hjelmeland. Photo: Simon Tonev Show more

Bjarte Hjelmeland, like most of us, strongly characterized by the coronakrisa.

– We knew that it would come, but no so well for itself that it was going to be like that, so violently.

I am a arbeiderpartimann, but will give credit to the government and those who govern the country now. Erna came a bit late in the time, cooperates with the opposition and trying to do the best for us.

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