Carl Henrik Fredriksson

Carl Henrik Fredriksson (born October 1, 1965 in Jönköping , Sweden ) is a literary critic, columnist, essayist and translator and lives in Vienna ( Austria ). Between 2001 and 2015 he was editor-in-chief and publisher of Eurozine - network of European cultural magazines and cultural magazine on the Internet, which he co-founded in 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he was editor-in-chief of Sweden's oldest cultural magazine Ord & Bild, of which he had been editor since 1995.

He is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Media and Communication Policy in Berlin and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Fredriksson studied comparative literature, philosophy, sociology and art history at the University of Lund from 1987 to 1995 and intellectual history and hermeneutics at the University of Gothenburg . Since 1988 he has published articles on poetry, literature, literary theory, art, philosophy, media and politics in numerous Swedish and international newspapers and magazines, among others. a. 90-valley, Courrier International , Dagens Nyheter , Glänta, Göteborgs-Posten , Ord & Bild, Pequod, Reč, Svenska Dagbladet , Sydsvenska Dagbladet , Varlık, Vikerkaar and Waspennest . He is also a regular contributor to the Swedish public radio station Sveriges Radio .

Fredriksson has translated numerous works into Swedish, including a. by Ulrich Beck , John N. Gray , Jürgen Habermas , Josef Haslinger , Adolf Muschg , Seymour Papert , Judith Schalansky , Raoul Schrott and Immanuel Wallerstein .

Web links

• Carl Henrik Fredriksson's short biography (in English)
• Article about the possibilities of a European public