Lena Svedberg
Acting
Biography
Aina-Lena (Lena) Bernice Svedberg was a Swedish artist, activist and poet. She grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where her father worked as an economical advisor for the government. Underwent the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in the 60's, worked and collaborated with Carl Johan De Geer and Lars Hillersberg for the underground, anarchistic art magazine Puss.
Known For
A street theatre group performs anti-capitalist and anti-militarist plays. The inner conflicts, about how to reach and how tight they shall embrace the working class, escalates and the group split up.
Du gamla, du fria
Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make their magazine together, how beautiful but strange she drew and how bad she seemed to feel.