Lasse Strömstedt

Folke Lars-Olov (Lasse) Strömstedt (born May 23, 1935 in Gävle , † July 4, 2009 in Gränna ) was a Swedish writer and actor .

Life

Strömstedt's father was a dock worker, his mother a housewife and he grew up in an orderly family environment. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1952, the seventeen-year-old Strömstedt was sentenced to eighteen months in prison for repeated burglary, shoplifting and car theft. He remained a criminal and spent four of eight other prison years in Långholmen Central Prison . Until 1971 his work as a casual worker was interrupted by additional prison stays.

After 1971 he changed his life and became a writer, debater and actor. The breakthrough came in 1974 when he and the journalist Christer Dahl published the novel Grundbulten under the pseudonym Kennet Ahl . It is a gallows-humorous story that describes life in the Hall correctional facility southeast of Södertälje and Stockholm's drug district . Strömstedt also wrote some of his own books and showed great commitment in the fight against crime and drugs. He also made a career as an actor and worked in Staffan Hildebrand's film G - som i gemenskap and in Pelle Berglund's television series Dubbelsvindlarna .

Strömstedt was married to the singer and writer Ann-Christine Bärnsten from 1986 to 2001 .

Works

Under the pseudonym Kennet Ahl

• Grundbulten , 1974
• Lyftet , 1976 (filmed in 1978)
• En dag på polisskolan , 1978
• Storfräsarna , 1979
• Högriskbegravning , 2006

Autobiographical accounts

• Gå i fängelse , 1981
• I fängelse , 1982
• Sanningen's minut , 1984
• Fånge 981 , 2003

Movies

• Mannen som gick upp i rök , 1980
• Dubbelsvindlarna , 1982 (TV series)
• G - som i gemenskap , 1983

Web links

• The writer Lasse Strömstedt is dead , Dagens Nyheter from July 6, 2009 (accessed July 16, 2010, Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aftonbladet: From prisoner to TV favorite , accessed on July 16, 2010 (Swedish)
2. ^ Prisoners' Museum Långholm ( Memento from June 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )