Öreskoga

Öreskoga
Öreskoga
Town
Country	Sweden
Län	Unknown

Årsta in Stockholm, here 2007, acted as a town square in Öreskoga in the 1994 Bert TV series

.

Öreskoga is a fictional

Sören Olsson's hometown, Örebro, and Anders Jacobsson's hometown, Karlskoga

. Öreskoga is located somewhere between Karlskoga-Örebro.

Geography

Outside Öreskoga is the

Emilia walk together in the summertime in Berts bravader

.

Politics and society

It's not mentioned in which municipality Öreskoga is, but Berts vidare betraktelser and Berts bravader refer to local government official "Svante Brylén". Berts bryderier refers to a newspaper named Öreskogas Allehanda.

Schools

Beckaskolan

Beckaskolan is a school with the

grade levels 1-9 where Bert and his class friends are. The comics often depicts a try squared schoolhouse. The 1994 TV-series

shows the "mellanstadium" and "högstadium". Someone has written "bögstadium" (Swedish: gay stage) at the front door.

In the books, class 6 B, Bert's class, has 15 pupils. Klass 6 from Östbergsskolan, consisting of 14 pupils, is merged with Bert's from the 7th grade. The class is then 7-9 A.

In Berts bekymmer, the school is named as the most moldy school in Sweden.

Teachers

"Banan-Boris", Bert's högstadium (High School) chemistry
Malte, Henrik Strutz, head teacher
Sonja Ek, Berts' mellanstadium (Middle School) teacher

Blåsjöskolan

Jungbergska skolan is a mellanstadium school, and Gabriella's school, some kilometers away from Bert's hem. In Berts bekännelser Bert, who is then in the 8th grade, travels there by moped to meet Gabriella who's in the 6th grade. He is disguised as a substitute. From the 7th grade she switches to Beckaskolan.

Jungbergska skolan

Jungbergska skolan is a 1-6-school, and Nadja's school. In Berts första betraktelser, a disco occurs at the school. In the TV series a violin concerto occurs at the school.

From the 7th grade, Nadja switches to Beckaskolan.

Österbergsskolan

Österbergsskolan is the school for the pupils who from the 7th grade are merged with Bert's class.

Sports

In Öreskoga is the sports club Öreskoga-Kamraternas Idrottsförening, where Bert plays soccer, and the name is mentioned in Bert och brorsorna. The boys' team is led by soccer manager Gordon. Berts vidare betraktelser depicts the team playing "Böljas BK". In Berts bravader, Åke recruits 9 year old Charlie to the 14 yer old's team. In Berts bekännelser, it's mentioned how the team fought with the spectators in the first game of an important regional tournament during the previous year, and was suspended for several months. This makes Åke angry, and he steals referee's clothes from a dressing room, and judge a girls game using rugby football rules before facing a black eye in the paus.

In Öreskoga is also Öreskoga Ishockeyklubb, which Åke blames for racism not touching the "black puck" in Berts ytterligare betraktelser,^[1] in Berts bryderier they play Bollehult.

References

^ Anders Jacobsson, Sören Olsson (1991). "Torsdag 9 november". Berts ytterligare betraktelser (in Swedish). p. 142.

[1] Anders Jacobsson, Sören Olsson (1991). "Torsdag 9 november". Berts ytterligare betraktelser (in Swedish). p. 142.

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