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List of Themes
America
Anarchism
Animals
Anthroposophy
Apocalypse, End Times, Revolution
Art and Artists
Bible
Children
Christianity and the Church
Criminal Justice
Disabilities and Mental Illness
Education
Germany and Nazism
Globalization, Imperialism, Wealth-Addiction
Heretics and Outsiders
Humor
Italy
Literature: the Writer's Craft and Mission
Literature: Other Writers
Medicine and Science
Myths and Legends
Sexuality
Theater
Waldorf Education
War, Violence, Militarism
Youth

America
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
October 1999
A Bjørneboe Reader
Epigraph to We Who Loved America  (poem)
The Fear of America Within Us
How Professor Arne Næss and I Conquered NATO
About Jens Bjørneboe
Øyvind Gulliksen: Tunnel of Love: American Influences on Norwegian Culture
Øyvind Gulliksen: Bjørneboe and America

Anarchism, Anti-authoritarianism
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
September 1999  January 2000   March 2000
A Bjørneboe Reader
Before the Solstice   (poem)
The Good Pupil
Hans Jæger
How Professor Arne Næss and I Conquered NATO
About Jens Bjørneboe
Oddbjørn Johannessen: The authoritarian and the "traitors"
Inge S. Kristiansen: The Anarchist
Jan Rokne: JB: A Writer for Human Rights
Jahn Thon: Bjørneboe's Social Critique
Works Available in English
Degrees of Freedom

Animals
A Bjørneboe Reader
The Cockfight
Concerning a Norwegian Alley Cat
Hemingway and the Beasts
About Jens Bjørneboe
Fredrik Wandrup: Bjørneboe's Animal Symbolism

Anthroposophy
see also Waldorf Education
About Jens Bjørneboe
Inge S. Kristiansen: The Anarchist
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Notes on the Genesis of Powderhouse
Mark Mussari: Color: The Material of Immateriality in JB's Blåmann

Apocalypse, End Times, Revolution
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
October 1998   December 1998   January 2000   October 2000
A Bjørneboe Reader
Before the Solstice  (poem)
A Christmas Poem  (poem)
Ballad of Hiroshima Town
Epigraph to We Who Loved America
Homage to Cézanne    (From Powderhouse)
The Dutchman   (From The Sharks)
"I spent the years in Stockholm drawing & painting"   (From Moment of Freedom)
The Prison Rebellion   (From Moment of Freedom)
The Theater Tomorrow
About Jens Bjørneboe
Carl Fredrik Engelstad: Upon Jens Bjørneboe's Death
Inge S. Kristiansen: Toward the End Times
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Notes on the Genesis of Powderhouse
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Translator's Introduction to The Silence
Elizabeth A. Schultz: The Trembling Balance in JB's The Sharks
Jahn Thon: "Something New Must Be Created"

Art and Artists
see also Literature:Other Writers
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
June 1999
A Bjørneboe Reader
Ernst Josephson, his Life and Work
Homage to Cézanne    (From Powderhouse)
I spent the years in Stockholm drawing and painting   (From Moment of Freedom)
Jacques Callot   (From Moment of Freedom)
Knut Hamsun's Centennial (partly about Munch)
Overview of JB's art on this site
About Jens Bjørneboe
Atle Evje: "...After All, I'm Basically a Poet"   (Part 1: The 1950s)
Thomas Munthe: A Flayed Presence in the World
Mark Mussari: Color: The Material of Immateriality in JB's Blåmann
Sven Kærup Bjørneboe: A Rebel with Self-Discipline

Bible
see also Christianity and the Church;    Myths and Legends
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
November 1999    December 2000
A Bjørneboe Reader
A Christmas Poem
Easter: The Basket Maker  (poem)
David Sings of Jonathan  (poem)
The Hearing  (poem)
Iscariot  (poem)
Salome  (poem)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Atle Evje: "...After All, I'm Basically a Poet"    (Part 1: The 1950s)

Children; Waldorf Education
see also Youth
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
May 1998    June 1998    September 2000
A Bjørneboe Reader
Childhood  (poem)
Fairy Tales  (poem)
The Dutchman   (From The Sharks)
Grades or Reports
The Prison Rebellion   (From Moment of Freedom)
Two years at a Rudolf Steiner School: First Grade—Fairy Tales
Two years at a Rudolf Steiner School: Second Grade—Legends and Animal Fables
About Jens Bjørneboe
Fredrik Wandrup: The Little Children

Christianity and the Church
see also Bible
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
April 1999
A Bjørneboe Reader
The Caretaker   (From Powderhouse)
Conversation with God (From The Silence)
The Fear of America Within Us
Flowers for Genêt  (poem)
Mea Maxima Culpa  (poem)
The Monk  (poem)
Summa Theologia  (poem)
The Youth  (poem)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Sven Kærup Bjørneboe: A Rebel with Self-Discipline
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Notes on the Genesis of Powderhouse

Criminal Justice
Short quotes
A Bjørneboe Reader
The Caretaker   (From Powderhouse)
Do Jurists Have Souls?
Epigraph to We Who Loved America   (poem)
Jacques Callot   (From Moment of Freedom)
Many Happy Returns   (Song Lyrics)
The Prison Rebellion   (From Moment of Freedom)
The Righteous and the Innocent
The Treatment of Young Lawbreakers
About Jens Bjørneboe
Joe Martin:Bjørneboe and Foucault
Joe Martin: Bjørneboe and the Death Penalty   (On Powderhouse)
Fredrik Wandrup: Storming the Bastille
Works Available in English
Powderhouse

Disabilities and Mental Illness
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
March 1999  February 2000
A Bjørneboe Reader
The Caretaker   (From Powderhouse)
Ewald
The Hospital Song  (poem)
Ernst Josephson, his Life and Work
The Righteous and the Innocent
When I wrote Jonas
About Jens Bjørneboe
Halfdan Kierulf: The Vision of Sickness in Jens Bjørneboe's Writings

Germany, Nazism
The Bird Lovers   (Song Lyrics)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Ewald
Sigurd Aa. Aarnes: The Problem of Evil: Nazism in JB's Writing
Leif Longum: The Bird Lovers: Timelessness and Contemporary Problematic
Joe Martin: Encountering Bjørneboe

Globalization, Imperialism, Wealth-Addiction
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
February 1999  April 1999  June 2000
A Bjørneboe Reader
The Fear of America Within Us
How Professor Arne Næss and I Conquered NATO
Are We Destroying the Theater?
Hymn to the Fatherland  (from The Bird Lovers)
On the Art of Making the Earth Uninhabitable   (from The Silence)
The Town Fathers Quell a Revolution  (from Winter in Bellapalma)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Øyvind Gulliksen: Bjørneboe and America
Øyvind Gulliksen: Tunnel of Love: American Influences on Norwegian Culture
Leif Longum: The Bird Lovers: Timelessness and Contemporary Problematic
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: JB's Winter in Bellapalma: Hemingway Tribute, Harbinger of Works to Come
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Translator's Introduction to The Silence

Heretics and Outsiders
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
March 1998    March 1999    September 1999
A Bjørneboe Reader
Conference of Professors at Vienna General Hospital   (From Semmelweis)
The Surgeons Prepare for a Demonstration (from Amputation)
The Forests Behind The Night of the Iguana
The Good Pupil
Homage to Cézanne    (From Powderhouse)
Knut Hamsun's Centennial
Summa Theologia  (poem)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Sven Kærup Bjørneboe: A Rebel with Self-Discipline
Oddbjørn Johannessen: The authoritarian and the "traitors"
Inge S. Kristiansen: The Anarchist
Jahn Thon: Bjørneboe's Social Critique

Humor
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
October 1998    August 1999
A Bjørneboe Reader
The Cockfight
Concerning a Norwegian Alley Cat
How Professor Arne Næss and I Conquered NATO
Last Voyage: A Norwegian Lullaby   (poem)
Ten Commandments for a Young Man who Wants to Get Ahead   (poem)
The Town Fathers Quell a Revolution   (From Winter in Bellapalma)
A Trattoria in Florence   (Drawing)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: JB's Winter in Bellapalma: Hemingway Tribute, Harbinger of Works to Come

Italy
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
July 1999
A Bjørneboe Reader
Jacques Callot  (From Moment of Freedom)
The Town Fathers Quell a Revolution   (From Winter in Bellapalma)
A Trattoria in Florence   (Drawing)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Leif Longum: The Bird Lovers: Timelessness and Contemporary Problematic
Leif Longum: Moment of Freedom
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Winter in Bellapalma: Hemingway Tribute, Harbinger of Works to Come
Jahn Thon: Bjørneboe's Social Critique

Literature: The Writer's Craft and Mission
Short quotes
A Bjørneboe Reader
Alone with the Paper
A Conversation with God (From The Silence)
Literature and Reality
The Theater Tomorrow
When I wrote Jonas
Writing and Criticism: Fight or Flight?
About Jens Bjørneboe
Sven Kærup Bjørneboe: A Rebel with Self-Discipline
Carl Fredrik Engelstad: Upon Jens Bjørneboe's Death
Atle Evje: "...After All, I'm Basically a Poet"    (Part 1: The 1950s)
Atle Evje: "...After All, I'm Basically a Poet"    (Part 2: The 1960s)
Steinar Lem: Bjørneboe's Books Still Live
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Notes on the Genesis of Powderhouse
Kaj Skagen: Bjørneboe's Social Individualism

Literature: Other Writers
see also Art and Artists
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
February 2001
A Bjørneboe Reader
Before the Solstice: Hans Jæger in Memoriam  (poem)
Flowers for Genêt  (poem)
The Forests Behind The Night of the Iguana
Hans Jæger
Hemingway and Brecht
Hemingway and the Beasts
Knut Hamsun's Centennial
Strindberg the Fertile
The Theater Tomorrow
About Jens Bjørneboe
"...After All, I'm Basically a Poet"   (Part 2: The 1960s)
Øyvind Gulliksen: Bjørneboe and America (Includes discussions of JB's relation to Miller, Hemingway, Melville)
Joe Martin:Bjørneboe and Foucault
Joe Martin: Bjørneboe and the Death Penalty
Joe Martin: Translator's Introduction to Semmelweis
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Winter in Bellapalma: Hemingway Tribute, Harbinger of Works to Come

Medicine and Science
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
March 1999
A Bjørneboe Reader
Conference of Professors at Vienna General Hospital (from Semmelweis)
The Surgeons Prepare for a Demonstration (from Amputation)
Psychodorm Song  (poem)
The Doctor's Song  (poem)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Fredrik Engelstad: Knowledge and Society: Holberg, Ibsen, Bjørneboe
Oddbjørn Johannessen: The Authoritarian and the "Traitors"
Halfdan Kierulf: The Vision of Sickness in Jens Bjørneboe's Writings
Joe Martin: Translator's Introduction to Semmelweis
Works Available in English
Semmelweis
Amputation)

Myths and Legends
see also Bible
A Bjørneboe Reader
Before the Solstice  (poem)
The Dutchman   (From The Sharks
Fairy Tales  (poem)
Hans Jæger  (poem)
Two years at a Rudolf Steiner School: First Grade—Fairy Tales
Two years at a Rudolf Steiner School: Second Grade—Legends and Animal Fables
When I wrote Jonas
About Jens Bjørneboe
Atle Evje: "...After All, I'm Basically a Poet"  (Part 1: The 1950s)
Kaj Skagen: Bjørneboe's Social Individualism
Fredrik Wandrup: Bjørneboe's Animal Symbolism

Sexuality
A Bjørneboe Reader
The Cockfight
David Sings of Jonathan  (poem)
Elegy for a Hanged Queer  (poem)
The Monk  (poems)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Jahn Thon: Bjørneboe's Social Critique

Theater
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
November 1998
A Bjørneboe Reader
Conference of Professors at Vienna General Hospital   (From Semmelweis)
The Surgeons Prepare for a Demonstration (from Amputation)
Many Happy Returns (Song lyrics)
The Bird Lovers (Song lyrics)
Hemingway and Brecht
The Forests Behind The Night of the Iguana
Strindberg the Fertile
The Theater Tomorrow
Are We Destroying the Theater?
About Jens Bjørneboe
Fredrik Engelstad: Knowledge and Society: Holberg, Ibsen, Bjørneboe
Atle Evje: "...After All, I'm Basically a Poet"    (Part 2: The 1960s)
Oddbjørn Johannessen: The Authoritarian and the "Traitors"
Oddbjørn Johannessen: Jens Bjørneboe and the Norwegian Theater
Leif Longum: The Bird Lovers: Timelessness and Contemporary Problematic
Joe Martin: Translator's Introduction to Semmelweis
Works Available in English
The Bird Lovers
Semmelweis
Amputation)

War, Violence, Militarism
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
August 1998    February 1999    April 1999    May 1999   October 2000
A Bjørneboe Reader
The Bird Lovers   (Song Lyrics)
Epigraph to We Who Loved America  (poem)
The Cockfight
How Professor Arne Næss and I Conquered NATO
Literature and Reality
Writing and Criticism: Fight or Flight?
"I spent the years in Stockholm drawing & painting"   (From Moment of Freedom)
The Prison Rebellion   (From Moment of Freedom)
Jacques Callot   (From Moment of Freedom)
The Art of Making the Earth Uninhabitable (from The Silence)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Miljenko Cemeljic: A Croatian Response to the Trilogy
Jan Rokne: JB: A Writer for Human Rights

Youth
Bjørneboe Quote of the Month
June 1998
A Bjørneboe Reader
The Brother
Ewald
The Good Pupil
Hans Jæger
Ten Commandments for a Young Man who Wants to Get Ahead  (poem)
The Treatment of Young Lawbreakers
The Youth  (poem)
About Jens Bjørneboe
Steinar Lem: Bjørneboe's Books Still Live
Thomas Munthe: A Flayed Presence in the World
Kaj Skagen: Bjørneboe's Social Individualism


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