Trond Kirkvaag

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Trond Kirkvaag
Born
Trond Georg Kirkvaag

(1946-06-21)21 June 1946
Oslo, Norway
Died16 November 2007(2007-11-16) (aged 61)
Oslo, Norway
Occupation(s)Comedian, actor

Trond Georg Kirkvaag (21 June 1946 – 16 November 2007) was a

NRK, he produced numerous comedy television series. After his death he was widely hailed by his colleagues as possibly the greatest Norwegian TV comedian in history. He was the son of NRK journalist and television host Rolf Kirkvaag
.

Life

Trond Kirkvaag appeared on television for the first time in 1968 in an NRK 1 program titled “Smil til det skjulte kamera” (Smile to the hidden camera), which was originally broadcast on 7 October 1967. This was the first step into a long-standing professional relationship with NRK, and Kirkvaag became a firm fixture in the national TV and radio corporation's identity.[1]

Trond Kirkvaag was best known for his work with

silent movie era and the quick-fire wise-cracking of the Marx Brothers.[citation needed
]

Kirkvaag and his fellow comedians won the Gullrute (Golden Pane) television award in 2004. The award is given by fellow members of the acting profession, and is an indication of how well-respected he was among his colleagues.[citation needed]

KLM won another Gullrute in 2007; however, only Lystad and Mjøen were able to receive the award, as Kirkvaag was too ill to attend.[3] Lystad paid an emotional tribute to his long-time friend during his acceptance speech.[citation needed]

Career

He began working at

NRK in 1968. One of his first successes was “Buffalo Bløffs internasjonale vegg-til-vegg-show” (The Buffalo Bluff Wall-to-Wall International Tour) in 1973, made with partner Jon Skolmen. It won the Chaplin Award in Montreux
.

In 1976, he and Skolmen won the

Golden Rose of Montreux, the Chaplin Award and the Press Award in Montreux for “The Nor-way to Broadcasting”, a humorous program about the history of broadcasting
in Norway. He began his collaboration with Lystad and Mjøen in 1976 with the satirical news program, Nynytt (Newnews).

In 1979, KLM wrote and starred in the first of four series about Brødrene Dal (The Dal Brothers), which continued to be produced until 2005.

LP album featuring songs from the show. A fifth series of “Brødrene Dal” was planned, but abandoned after Kirkvaag's death.[citation needed
]

Other programs included MRK Fjærsynet (MRK TeeVee) - an ironic play on

NRK's title, with the acronym being an abbreviation of “Morsk Rikskringkasting” (Hard and Fast National Broadcasting Corporation). Fjærsyn is a colloquial pronunciation of “fjernsyn” (TV), Skai TV - imitert fjernsyn” (Skai Ⓡ TV [5]An Imitated Television (Channel); 1988), KLMs Nachspiel (KLM's After Play; 1992) and “KLMs Vorspiel” (KLM's Prelude), the Montreux
live contributions, “Diplomatix” (1985), and The Rise and Fall of an Olympic Village (1994), as well as the film Noe Helt Annet (Something Completely Different).

In 1996, Kirkvaag created the program Trotto Libre on NRK 1's Alltid Moro (Always Fun),[6] with fellow comedian Otto Jespersen. After the collaboration with Jespersen ended, he starred in a skit series “Showtalk”, with short satirical sketches on a NRK talk show.[7]

Death

On 16 November 2007, Trond Kirkvaag died aged 61 of

cremated on 30 November.[8]

His final TV appearance was on “Luftens Helter”, which he co-wrote with Knut Lystad. The final episode was aired the day after his death.

Bibliography

Kirkvaag wrote two books: the crime novel “Kongen” (The King), and the autobiography “Kom ikke nærmere. Jeg og far” (Come no closer. Me and Dad), in which he described what it was like growing up in the 1950s in Majorstuen (a part of the Frogner borough in Oslo), in the shadow of his father, the most famous Norwegian TV entertainer of his time,[9][10] then nicknamed Sjonkel Rolf by the children who watched his shows.

In Come no closer,[11] Kirkvaag describes his father as being a kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, both at home and at work,[12] prone to severely punishing his children when they broke his rules, sometimes beating them,[13][14] although their sister was always spared from such harsh treatment. Kirkvaag wrote that he and his brother were so frightened they used to call him "the stranger".[citation needed]

Kirkvaag's uncle, Tor Kirkvaag (born 1929; Rolf Kirkvaag Sr's younger brother) denied these and other allegations.[15] Trond Kirkvaag's younger brother Rolf Jr. (born 1948) was as adamant as his uncle; he firmly denied the things his brother wrote;[16] however, he admitted that same day that he and his elder brother had been mistreated by their father.[17] Trond claimed that he tried to reconcile his differences with his father before he died in 2003, without success.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ NRK Nett TV: «Nekrolog over Trond Kirkvaag ved Lisa Strindberg» (Obituary of T. Kirkvaag, by L. Strindberg) — video report.
  2. YouTube
    (KLM: Trond Kirkvaag parodying [fellow] Dan Børge Akerø).
  3. ^ Dagbladet, 6 June 2007: «Trond Kirkvaag alvorlig kreftsyk» (Trond Kirkvaag seriously ill with cancer).
  4. ^ IMDb: Trond Kirkvaag's Filmography.
  5. ^ Not to be confused with the Greek Skai TV (ΣΚΑΪ Τηλεόραση) channel, set up five years later…
  6. ^ "Tekstarkiv - Dagbladet.no". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2007-12-05.
  7. ^ «Ubetalelig morsomme klipp», nrk.no; accessed 5 March 2018.(in Norwegian)
  8. ^ NRK: «Trond Kirkvaag ble bisatt fredag» (Trond Kirkvaag cremated Friday)
  9. ^ «Alt om hans far» All about his father Archived 2007-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, dagsavisen.no; accessed 5 March 2017.(in Norwegian)
  10. ^ NRK, 17 November 2007: «Trond Kirkvaag er død» (Trond Kirkvaag died).
  11. ISBN 978-82-8178-238-9
    ).
  12. ^ «Minner uten filter» Unfiltered Memories Archived 2007-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, Aftenposten, 1 August 2007.(in Norwegian)
  13. ^ «Slått av far han fryktet» Beaten by the father he feared, VG, 18 July 2007. (in Norwegian)
  14. ^ «Kirkvaag slått av far» Kirkvaag beaten by his father, Se og Hør, 18 July 2007. (in Norwegian)
  15. ^ Se og Hør, 19 July 2007: «Lillebror Kirkvaag raser» (Lil' brother Kirkvaag enraged).
  16. ^ «-Kirkvaag var en god far» «Kirkgaard was a good father», Se og Hør, 18 July 2007. (in Norwegian)
  17. ^ «- Jeg valgte ris på rumpa framfor husarrest» I chose to be spanked rather than be prohibited from going out, VG, 18 July 2007. (in Norwegian)

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