Fredrik Lindström

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Fredrik Lindström (born June 27, 1963 in Eskilstuna, Södermanland County) is a Swedish linguist, comedian, film director and presenter.

Lindström has in the 2000s become a household name in Sweden through his documentary TV-series about the Swedish language on Sveriges Television. The series have reached top ratings much due to Lindströms easily accessible and entertaining ways to deal with the information presented to viewers. Lindström has written several books as basis for the series. They have the same kind of approach, further on he comes from a theoretical background and have done some research in linguistics.

Lindströms first encounter with the Swedish audience was in the radio show Hassan where he did prank calls to random people pretending to be different imaginary people; often with some kind of subtle disturbance that made the conversation to be somewhat of a farse, in a funny way. The show was aired on P3 during several seasons in the early to mid 1990s.

A few years later after various smaller appearances, as a stand-up comedian among other things, he directed two Swedish featured films that were in the comedy/drama genre with many, in Sweden, well known actors, eg. Mikael Persbrandt, Magnus Härenstam, etc.

In 2006 he is working on his third series about the Swedish language that is planned to air in the winter.

1 Discography

[edit] Discography

[edit] Films

Vuxna människor, 1999 (literally: Adult people)
Känd från TV, 2001 (literally: Recognized from TV)

[edit] Documentarys

Harry Victor, 2001
Värsta språket (literally: The worst language)
Svenska Dialektmysterier (literally: Swedish dialect mysteries)
Världens modernaste land (literally: The worlds most modern country) (not ready)

[edit] Radio shows

Hassan, early to mid 90's
På minuten, (the Swedish version of the BBC radio game show Just a Minute)

[edit] TV shows

Tommy på vita duken on ZTV (literally: Tommy on the big screen)
Ingesson
Pangbulle (literally:Bang bun)
Pentagon
c/o Segemyhr
Detta har hänt (literally: This has happened)

[edit] CDs

www.matapa.nu, at Mosebacke in Stockholm during the spring of 1999 (literally: www.foodmonkey.nu)

[edit] Books

Vad gör alla superokända människor hela dagarna? (literally: What does all the super-unknown people do all of the days?)
Världens dåligaste språk (literally: The worst language in the world)
Jordens smartaste ord (literally: The smartest words on earth)
Vem är Björn och vem är Benny? (literally: Who is Björn and who is Benny?)