**Povel Ramel** (June 1, 1922 - June 4, 2007), was a Swedish entertainer, composer, singer, actor and author.

Biography
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### Early life

Ramel was born in Stockholm to Märta Tesch and Karl Ramel. His parents died due to a car crash in 1937, and then Ramel lived with his aunt while he studied. When he was 17 years old, he directed and wrote his first revue. The same year he was on a trip to London where the British music inspired him, with artists like Harry Roy and Billy Cotton.

### Early career

Povel Ramel did get a little bit famous when the singer Alice Babs did a cover on *Vårt eget Blue Hawaii*, that Ramel had written. The real breaktrough was in 1944, when *Johanssons Boogie Woogie vals*, that he composed did get very popular. The year after Per-Martin Hamerg hired him to the biggest radio station in Sweden. There Ramel did humorous programs. He also met his future wife, Susanna Ramel, when he worked for the radio station. The reviewers in the local newspaper didn't like Ramel's jokes and songs, but the listeners liked him.

### Knäppupp

With Felix Alvo, Ramel did found Knäppupp AB in 1952, a company who wrote and composed revues. The first year the company features their first revue, called *Akta huvet*. It had premiere at Cirkus in Gothenburg, and in the following 16 years Knäppupp is going to produce, write and compose many revues. The company also did direct and write movies, as I rök och dans (1954), Hoppsan (1955) and Ratataa (1956).

In 1969, the whole area Knäppupp used to work at was demolished, and soon after Knäppupp's activity stopped. Their last revue was *De sista entusiasterna* from 1968.

### Late career

The Norwegian singer Wenche Myhre launched a cooperation in the late 1960s. Together they occur in the revue *Pow Show* in 1969. The sequel *POW Show II - Andra varvet runt* had premiere in 1974.

Ramel later occured in the TV-series Semlons gröna dalar (1977) and Affären Ramel (1986).

New revues was written and composed by Ramel in the 1980's and 1990's, as *Minspiration* (1981), *Tingel Tangel på Tyrol* 1989 (with the swedish actor Hans Alfredson), *Knäpp igen* (1992) and *Kolla klotet!* (1996) (written together with the swedish actor Thomas von Brömssen).

In the 2000's Ramel was getting more and more inactive, and his last revue *Povel á la carte* had premiere 2005.

### Death and health problems

When Ramel only was two years old, in 1924, he stepped on a nail at a beach in Belgium, and had to get surgery in Bruges. Ramel was on the hospital in three weeks. The surgery failed and he almost died. The damage on the foot did stop, but he had surgery as an adult too.

In the spring 2007 Ramel had emergency heart problems and had to get a pacemaker. A month later he got more sick again, and he died 4 June, 2007.

After death
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Povel Ramel statue, 2023.
Shortly after Povel's death, his fan-club *Povel Ramel-sällskapet* was found. This was the October 13 2008. In 2022, a statue of Ramel in bronze, designed by Lasse Åberg, was built. Now it stands outside *Cirkus* in Stockholm.

Other works
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Ramel has an career as an author and 1945, he publiced his first book *Från Asar till Wasar*. The career as an actor has lasted for long, in more than 50 years.

### Select bibliography

* *Från Asar till Wasar* (1945)
* *Min galna hage* (1957)
* *Lingonben* (1978)
* *Min ordkynniga penna* (1987)
* *Följ mig bakåt vägen* (1992)
* *Som om inget hade hänt* (1999)

### Select filmography

* *Tre söner gick till flyget* (1945)
* *Ung och kär* (1950)
* *Puck heter jag* (1951)
* *Oss fakirer emellan* (1951)
* *I dur och skur* (1953)
* *I rök och dans* (1954)
* *Hoppsan!* (1955)
* *Ratataa* (1956)
* *Kortknäpp* (1957)
* *Den store amatören* (1958)
* *Falsk som vatten* (1985)
* *Tarzan* (1999)

### Karamelodikt-scholarship

In 1983, Ramel invented the Karamelodikt-scholarship, in Sweden known as *Karamelodikt-stipendiet*. It is handed out every year to Ramel's honor.