Rum wrote:What an odd story. Why has it come out now?
Because about one year ago the granddaughter of the alleged biological mother of Ingmar Bergman wrote a book in which she commented on how extraordinarily alike her father, Ingmar Bergman and a third man looked. She knew that the third man was her father's brother, but it was a big shameful secret, as her grandmother had given birth to altogether three sons without being married (this was, after all, almost one hundred years ago). The grandmother eventually married, and the husband adopted her youngest son. The older two were never officially discussed, but church records show that they were baptized and other records indicate that they were given up directly after birth. One son was born in July 1918. Ingmar Bergman's official birthdate was 14 July 1918.
The allegation is that Erik Bergman, Ingmar's father, would have been the father of all three out-of-wedlock sons.
The maternal niece of Ingmar Bergman happened to meet the author of that book and grew curious, and volunteered for a DNA test, the results of which have been published yesterday.
Rum wrote:And why does it matter?
Bergman is as famous in Sweden as royalty. And his art was very much tied to his family history, which he often spoke of himself. The assessment I have read is that neither the social mother nor Ingmar himself ever knew about the switch.
The allegation is that the father arranged the switch when the baby boy, who was born on 14 July 1918, died (the mother was seriously ill with the Spanish Flu when giving birth, and the baby was in very bad shape according to the hospital records). The official family story, which Ingmar often repeated, is that the ill baby was transported to Dalarna (hundreds of kilometers away), where a relative had found a wet nurse for him, and he was nursed back to health and returned home when the mother was well again.
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