Bert Karlsson
Bert Willis Karlsson (born June 21, 1945 in Tidan ) is a Swedish politician, entrepreneur, record producer and presenter. Bert Karlsson and Ian Wachtmeister founded the Ny Demokrati party in 1991 . Between 1991 and 1994 he was a member of the Swedish parliament .
Life
Active in business since his youth, he first founded the Mariann record company . In 1984 he opened the Skara Sommarland amusement park , whose management he had to relinquish in 1994 after the threat of bankruptcy. Karlsson planned another park, Fame World, which opened in 2005. This closed nine months later due to economic problems.
Bert Karlsson has been working with many of the famous Swedish artists through his music label Mariann Grammofon AB since the 1980s, including Eddie Meduza , Linda Bengtzing , Eurovision winner Charlotte Perrelli and the Viking rock band Ultima Thule .
The Ny Demokrati party, which he founded, attracted a great deal of media attention with its mainly populist slogans. In September, the Ny Demokrati received 6.7 percent in the elections to the Reichstag . Bert Karlsson was elected to the Reichstag without further political experience .
Today Karlsson appears rarely politically. After the Ny Demokrati party lost the majority of its voters in the 1994 elections after internal disputes, he went back to the activities of entrepreneur and producer. Bert Karlsson formed the duo Fame from the reality show Fame Factory , which won the 2003 Melodifestivalen and came fifth in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest .
During a television interview in March 2005, Bert Karlsson signed an application for membership in the Folkpartiet liberalerna party . When the party criticized this step as a media show, he withdrew the motion.
In the autumn of 2006, Karlsson ran a talk show called Bert on the Swedish broadcaster TV 8. He had previously appeared in programs Du är vad du äter and Ett herrans liv . Karlsson was also one of the judges in the TV 4 show Talang 2007 , the Swedish version of America's Got Talent . At the beginning of 2007 Bert Karlsson announced that he wanted to found a book publisher called Heja Sverige . He himself published there, among other things, the book "Berts fräckisar", which he wrote himself.
In addition to entering online trading and online poker, the entrepreneur is still active as a television presenter.
literature
- Bert's fräckisar (2007)
Web links
- Page at the Reichstag (Swedish)
credentials
- ↑ "Bert Karlsson i virtuell storsatsning" ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Bert Karlsson in i pokerbranschen" . Expressen , September 27, 2007.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karlsson, Bert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karlsson, Bert Willis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish entrepreneur and politician, member of the Riksdag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tidan |