Lena Einhorn
Lena Einhorn | |
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Born | Spånga, Sweden | 19 May 1954
Nationality | Swedish |
Notable work | Nina's Journey |
Relatives | Jerzy Einhorn (father) Stefan Einhorn (brother) |
Lena Einhorn (born 19 May 1954) is a Swedish director and writer and former physician.
Early life and family
Einhorn was born on 19 May 1954
Career
After graduating from the
She changed careers when she lived in the United States in the 1980s and began working as a medical editor at
She became an independent filmmaker after returning to Sweden. Her 1998 drama documentary, Handelsresande i liv, focused on rescue efforts during World War II and was the foundation of her first novel, also called Handelsresande i liv, which was published in 1999.[3]
A month after both of Einhorn's parents were diagnosed with incurable cancer in late 1999, she did a filmed interview with her mother about her experiences of the
Einhorn co-wrote her first play, Living Room with Anette Sallmander. It premiered in 2008 at
She released the film, A Lost Artwork, in 2012 which followed a two year long search for six paintings which were looted by Nazis from her father's childhood home in Southern Poland.[3]
Einhorn has written two books hypothesising an alternative understanding of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - The Jesus Mystery in 2007,[4] and A Shift in Time in 2016.[5]
Einhorn is a member of the Vetenskapsforum COVID-19, a group critical of the Swedish government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden.[6]
References
- ^ "Lena Einhorn". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 27 February 2005. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-253-00007-1.
- ^ a b c d e f "Lena Einhorn | Nordic Women in Film". nordicwomeninfilm (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-59921-148-0.
- ISBN 978-1-63158-099-4.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ Vogel, Gretchen (6 October 2020). "'It's been so, so surreal.' Critics of Sweden's lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 5 November 2020.