Vivica Bandler
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Vivica Bandler, 1997
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Vivica Aina Fanny von Frenckell 5 February 1917 Helsinki, Finland |
| Died | 30 June 2004 (aged 87) Helsinki, Finland |
| Spouse(s) | Kurt Bandler |
Vivica Aina Fanny Bandler (5 February 1917 – 30 July 2004) was a Finnish theater director and agronomist. She founded a theater in Helsinki and is credited for popularizing avant-garde Finnish theater.
Vivica von Frenckell was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1917. She was the daughter of Helsinki Mayor Erik von Frenckell and theater historian Ester-Margaret Lindberg. She studied agronomy, graduating in 1943. She then maintained her family home, Saari Manor, a historic home located in Tammela, Finland. She served in the Lotta Svärd during World War II and married Austrian Kurt Bandler in 1943; they divorced in 1963.
In 1946, she became involved in a love affair with Finnish writer Tove Jansson, which is documented by a series of letters they exchanged in subsequent years. Jansson incorporated the pair of them into her Moomin series as Thingumy and Bob (Bob, whose original name is Vifslan, being based on Vivica). Bandler eventually decided to stay with her husband, but the two women maintained a life-long friendship. Bandler adapted two of Jansson's Moomin stories for theater. In cooperation with her husband, she translated the first three Moomin books into German.
After the war she started working in an amateur theater in Tammela. She studied, in Paris, France in the 1930s, under a French movie director. Upon her return to Helsinki she sought to become a film director, but because of her gender, the opportunity was lacking. She went on to get her degree in agriculture, instead.
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