Staffan Göthe

Lars Staffan Göthe (born 20 December 1944, in Luleå), is a Swedish playwright, actor and director. He is a professor at Malmö Theatre Academy (Teaterhögskolan i Malmö) at Lund University.

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 (22 out of the 23 works he had produced in the period 1971-2001) was published in 2003 as Lysande eländen (approx.: "Brilliant Miseries").

The English titles given are approximate translations.

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 (an exception is the Norwegian Ballen i øyet from 2000). These include, in addition to those already named (and some others): Agneta Fagerström-Olssons Magic Stronger Than Life (for which he also wrote the screenplay, as mentioned above); two episodes of the Anna Holt television series (1996); Beck – Spår i mörker (1997, part of the long series of TV movies with Peter Haber as Martin Beck); and My Bearded Mother (Swedish: Min skäggiga mamma), 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.