-Free Lecture by Lena Einhorn.

Swedish author and playwright August Strindberg – a brilliant and yet highly controversial personage – died a hundred years ago this year. He is considered by many to be the best author who ever wrote in the Swedish language. But Strindberg is known not only for his extensive body of work, but also for his complicated personality, which combined a deep-rooted misogyny with an attraction to strong women (to name only one of his many contradictions). Consequently Strindberg has become known, and hotly debated, not only for what he wrote, but also for how he lived.

Author and filmmaker Lena Einhorn examines Strindberg’s turbulent life, focusing on his tumultuous first marriage to Siri von Essen, the Swedish-speaking Finnish noblewoman and actress.

About Lena Einhorn:
Lena Einhorn is a Swedish author, filmmaker, and director from Sweden. Her book Nina’s Journey/Ninas resa received the prestigious August Prize – the Swedish National Book Award – in 2005; her film of the same name was awarded two Guldbagge awards for Best Film and Best Manuscript, as well as a number of international prizes.

Einhorn has written six books and made more than twenty films. In the last few years, she has completed three projects on Strindberg. In 2007 she made a television documentary called Strindberg, A Damn Life; in 2010 she served as editor of the richly illustrated anthology On Strindberg, and last year published the novel Siri, the story of August Strindberg’s first, and very dramatic marriage.

Co-presented by the Consulate General of Sweden in New York.