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The Culture Year 2024 – Poetry, Canon, and Crisis

Bruno K Öijer fans experienced ecstasy at the same time as the young poets stepped forward. But the cultural year 2024 was marked by economic crisis and the debate about a Swedish cultural canon that dragged on.

The Culture Year 2024 – Poetry, Canon, and Crisis

Suzanne Osten is celebrated at Young Clara

Suzanne Osten is being celebrated with a big party at Unga Klara in Stockholm. On December 6, the theater is hosting an open house with conversations and a party dedicated to Osten's memory, who founded Unga Klara.

Suzanne Osten is celebrated at Young Clara

Jonas Kahnlund back at Unga Klara

Jonas Kahnlund returns to Unga Klara and becomes the new CEO – for the second time, but now with over 25 years of experience from the cultural sector. He was previously CEO from 2009 to 2015 and worked to establish the theater as an independent institution.

Jonas Kahnlund back at Unga Klara

Suzanne Osten honored with a memorial board – and by SVT

A table where friends and colleagues can write a final greeting to the deceased director Suzanne Osten has been set up in the foyer of the Unga Klara theater in Stockholm. SVT announces that due to Osten's passing, several of her films will be made available on SVT Play.

Suzanne Osten honored with a memorial board – and by SVT

Margareta Garpe on Osten: Elevated Women to Leading Roles

They were pioneers in feminist theatre, with productions such as "Jösses flickor". Margareta Garpe will miss Suzanne Osten's fervour.

Margareta Garpe on Osten: Elevated Women to Leading Roles

Suzanne Osten: I Didn't Want to Write a Bitter Book

2021 published Suzanne Osten her autobiography "Who does she think she is, Suzanne Osten?". TT met her then for an interview about adult theatre, baby drama and what she called the child position in her life.

Suzanne Osten: I Didn't Want to Write a Bitter Book

She was my theater mom

Playful and incurably curious, that's how actor Simon Norrthon describes Suzanne Osten. For me, she was my theatre mum.

She was my theater mom

Suzanne Osten - "The Light in Theater Sweden"

The director and playwright Suzanne Osten is dead. In connection with her 80th birthday earlier this year, she was greatly celebrated at the Royal Dramatic Theatre as a pioneer and central figure in Swedish theatre life, particularly in children's and youth theatre.

Suzanne Osten - "The Light in Theater Sweden"