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A new documentary about Josefin Nilsson raises strong reactions. The film was released on Friday and social media is filled with comments about what emerges about the singer's life.
Josefin Nilsson, artist, actor and celebrated singer in Ainbusk, died suddenly in 2016 after a period of illness, just 46 years old. In her documentary "Josefin Nilsson - Love me for who I am" her life is portrayed as an artist, but also a lesser known and much more obscure side of her life when she was severely beaten by a man she had a relationship with.
The documentary shows that Josefin Nilsson had plans to write a book about his experiences, but he never became a reality. Her sister Marie Nilsson Lind also tells about Josefin Nilsson's nightmare and describes the physical injuries the singer received from the abuse as contributing to her death.
The documentary was released on SVT Play on Friday and the reactions came immediately. The topic has dominated social media over the weekend. A large light manifestation, which was focused on paying attention to men's violence against women, was also held on Östermalm during Saturday night.
Now, the documentary's creator and producer, Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl, comments on the reactions:
"This is a story focusing on a popular artist and her unique artistry (...) It is Josephine's story. And Marie's story. Not to mention any names or other designating details is a conscious choice, because we have never wanted to focus on the perpetrator. Of course, the big debate on violence in close relationships is extremely important and welcome, ”she writes to TT.
They talk about Josefin Nilsson's tragedy in a new documentary in SVT
Saturday March 23, 2019
Artist Josefin Nilsson was the obvious, brilliant middle point in Ainbusk. At the same time, a dark story unfolded in her private life. In 2016, she quickly went away.
From yesterday, Friday, the documentary about Josefin Nilsson, "Josefin Nilsson - Love me for who I am", is shown on SVT Play. The documentary depicts her career from the start - how she and her childhood friends in Ainbusk Singers, from Gotlands När, won the talent hunt Talang -84 in Stockholm. Then Josefin Nilsson was 15 years old.
She was 46. On Friday, she would have turned 50.
On February 29, 2016, Josefin Nilsson walked away as a result of "an enlarged heart, very bad values, a tormented body in combination with painkillers, prescription drugs whose strength and effect she misjudged for a long time", according to a press release sent out by the family her death. For many years she had had problems with her back and hip and was operated several times.
In the hour-long K special documentary, her triumphs are portrayed as luminous lead singer and successful cabaret artist in Ainbusk, as Eva in Hannes Holm's and Måns Herngrens long film "Adam & Eva" in 1997, as the smothered wife Svetlana in the success music "Chess in Swedish" 2002. Men Another, lesser-known, more shaky story also emerges.
I meet Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl, who made the documentary, and Marie Nilsson-Lind, sister of Josefin Nilsson and a member of Ainbusk, at the hotel Rival in Stockholm. Here they would have set up their last stage performance, "Sisters of Sisters", after the success of the Länsteatern on Gotland in 2015. At Josefin Nilsson's birthday, her friends should gather here, eat cake and toast for her.
- Josefin died on the shooting day, February 29, a day that does not exist. It is so symbolic, it was not meant to be so. I initially wanted to highlight the artist Josefin Nilsson, but the more I got to know, the more I understood that you had to tell everything, says Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl who made the documentary.
Josefin Nilsson was writing a book about his experiences with assault. In the "Sisters of Sisters" she told how she was beaten physically and mentally by her then boyfriend in the late 1990s. Marie Nilsson-Lind reads in the documentary from threatening and offensive letter from her boyfriend to "Josa", which her sister consistently calls her during our meeting.
- What Josa wanted to tell was how strongly it affected her. How fragile life is, how it is to be so scared and frightened, threatened to his life. And how difficult it is then to dare to love someone again, how difficult it is to feel trust. She lost both her ability to trust other people and her confidence in herself, says Marie Nilsson-Lind.
Director Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl says that she was first and foremost interested in letting Josefin Nilsson tell her own story, and not by pointing someone out.
- The man in itself is completely uninteresting, but you have to tell the story because it affected her so much. And one has the right to tell their story as long as one does not hang out another. In one way it was difficult, but at the same time it was very easy.
How do you remember those years, Marie?
- It was chaos. I remember asking Josa: "You don't get to beat it?" She replied, "No, no, no." I don't think she either understood when it started to happen, it's so classic that it sneaks. All of a sudden, Josa began to think that everything we did in Ainbusk was bad. She had been the great comedy - now she did not want to improvise, not joke, nothing. I didn't know where it came from, I got no contact with her, it was like she was in a sect. If only I had realized what was going on, says Marie Nilsson-Lind.
The meta movement is mentioned almost in passing in the documentary. How much have you thought of it, Anna-Carin?
- From the beginning I didn't think much about it. But when I talked to Josephin's friends, several of them said she might not be able to protect herself, but that she always protected everyone else, and that if she had been alive, she had stood there at the front. She was very alone with her experiences, because it was another time.
- To be able to tell me too, somebody else must have said it before. In 1997, Josa was in the courtroom and said, "This has happened to me." But then there was no one else who told me too, says Marie Nilsson-Lind.
In the documentary, apart from the sister and the other Ain bush members Annelie Roswall and Bittis Jakobsson, a large number of people who knew and worked with Josefin Nilsson participated. Benny Andersson, who wrote a lot of music for Ainbusk and Josefin Nilsson's solo project and worked with her in "Chess", talks about her as a "happy, tough, funny girl and an incredibly talented, amazingly good singer". “When she sang, one wanted to come to her as an audience. She did not throw herself in your lap, but you wanted to get her close and take in every breath, every break, ”says Tommy Körberg, who played her husband in" Chess ". Hannes Holm, who directed "Adam & Eve", says: "Just as amazing as her songs were her laughter. It could move on cities. ”
- It was eight years between Josa and me, I was the typical big sister with glasses and anxiety. Josa came like a rocket, she didn't ask for permission to sing, she sang so that it screamed in the boxes. Her whole life was obvious to her. It was she who taught us in Ainbusk to wear high heels, she brought us all. I am so grateful for that, it was my rescue, ”says Marie Nilsson-Lind.
- I never met Josefin, but I would have liked to meet her. At the same time, everyone has been so good at telling her that I feel that I have a very clear picture of who she was, says Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl.
Marie Nilsson-Lind will write clearly the book that Josefin Nilsson just started on. She has had meetings with a publisher, she does not want to say which, but says that the book is supposed to come either in the fall or in February 2020.
- In all old TV clips, Josefin and Marie fill each other's sentences, says Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl.
- I am very used to talking in half sentences. She took the other half. Now I have to learn to finish my sentences myself, says Marie Nilsson-Lind.
Josefin Nilsson, artist, actor and celebrated singer in Ainbusk, died suddenly in 2016 after a period of illness, just 46 years old. In her documentary "Josefin Nilsson - Love me for who I am" her life is portrayed as an artist, but also a lesser known and much more obscure side of her life when she was severely beaten by a man she had a relationship with.
The documentary shows that Josefin Nilsson had plans to write a book about his experiences, but he never became a reality. Her sister Marie Nilsson Lind also tells about Josefin Nilsson's nightmare and describes the physical injuries the singer received from the abuse as contributing to her death.
The documentary was released on SVT Play on Friday and the reactions came immediately. The topic has dominated social media over the weekend. A large light manifestation, which was focused on paying attention to men's violence against women, was also held on Östermalm during Saturday night.
Now, the documentary's creator and producer, Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl, comments on the reactions:
"This is a story focusing on a popular artist and her unique artistry (...) It is Josephine's story. And Marie's story. Not to mention any names or other designating details is a conscious choice, because we have never wanted to focus on the perpetrator. Of course, the big debate on violence in close relationships is extremely important and welcome, ”she writes to TT.
They talk about Josefin Nilsson's tragedy in a new documentary in SVT
Saturday March 23, 2019
Artist Josefin Nilsson was the obvious, brilliant middle point in Ainbusk. At the same time, a dark story unfolded in her private life. In 2016, she quickly went away.
From yesterday, Friday, the documentary about Josefin Nilsson, "Josefin Nilsson - Love me for who I am", is shown on SVT Play. The documentary depicts her career from the start - how she and her childhood friends in Ainbusk Singers, from Gotlands När, won the talent hunt Talang -84 in Stockholm. Then Josefin Nilsson was 15 years old.
She was 46. On Friday, she would have turned 50.
On February 29, 2016, Josefin Nilsson walked away as a result of "an enlarged heart, very bad values, a tormented body in combination with painkillers, prescription drugs whose strength and effect she misjudged for a long time", according to a press release sent out by the family her death. For many years she had had problems with her back and hip and was operated several times.
In the hour-long K special documentary, her triumphs are portrayed as luminous lead singer and successful cabaret artist in Ainbusk, as Eva in Hannes Holm's and Måns Herngrens long film "Adam & Eva" in 1997, as the smothered wife Svetlana in the success music "Chess in Swedish" 2002. Men Another, lesser-known, more shaky story also emerges.
I meet Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl, who made the documentary, and Marie Nilsson-Lind, sister of Josefin Nilsson and a member of Ainbusk, at the hotel Rival in Stockholm. Here they would have set up their last stage performance, "Sisters of Sisters", after the success of the Länsteatern on Gotland in 2015. At Josefin Nilsson's birthday, her friends should gather here, eat cake and toast for her.
- Josefin died on the shooting day, February 29, a day that does not exist. It is so symbolic, it was not meant to be so. I initially wanted to highlight the artist Josefin Nilsson, but the more I got to know, the more I understood that you had to tell everything, says Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl who made the documentary.
Josefin Nilsson was writing a book about his experiences with assault. In the "Sisters of Sisters" she told how she was beaten physically and mentally by her then boyfriend in the late 1990s. Marie Nilsson-Lind reads in the documentary from threatening and offensive letter from her boyfriend to "Josa", which her sister consistently calls her during our meeting.
- What Josa wanted to tell was how strongly it affected her. How fragile life is, how it is to be so scared and frightened, threatened to his life. And how difficult it is then to dare to love someone again, how difficult it is to feel trust. She lost both her ability to trust other people and her confidence in herself, says Marie Nilsson-Lind.
Director Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl says that she was first and foremost interested in letting Josefin Nilsson tell her own story, and not by pointing someone out.
- The man in itself is completely uninteresting, but you have to tell the story because it affected her so much. And one has the right to tell their story as long as one does not hang out another. In one way it was difficult, but at the same time it was very easy.
How do you remember those years, Marie?
- It was chaos. I remember asking Josa: "You don't get to beat it?" She replied, "No, no, no." I don't think she either understood when it started to happen, it's so classic that it sneaks. All of a sudden, Josa began to think that everything we did in Ainbusk was bad. She had been the great comedy - now she did not want to improvise, not joke, nothing. I didn't know where it came from, I got no contact with her, it was like she was in a sect. If only I had realized what was going on, says Marie Nilsson-Lind.
The meta movement is mentioned almost in passing in the documentary. How much have you thought of it, Anna-Carin?
- From the beginning I didn't think much about it. But when I talked to Josephin's friends, several of them said she might not be able to protect herself, but that she always protected everyone else, and that if she had been alive, she had stood there at the front. She was very alone with her experiences, because it was another time.
- To be able to tell me too, somebody else must have said it before. In 1997, Josa was in the courtroom and said, "This has happened to me." But then there was no one else who told me too, says Marie Nilsson-Lind.
In the documentary, apart from the sister and the other Ain bush members Annelie Roswall and Bittis Jakobsson, a large number of people who knew and worked with Josefin Nilsson participated. Benny Andersson, who wrote a lot of music for Ainbusk and Josefin Nilsson's solo project and worked with her in "Chess", talks about her as a "happy, tough, funny girl and an incredibly talented, amazingly good singer". “When she sang, one wanted to come to her as an audience. She did not throw herself in your lap, but you wanted to get her close and take in every breath, every break, ”says Tommy Körberg, who played her husband in" Chess ". Hannes Holm, who directed "Adam & Eve", says: "Just as amazing as her songs were her laughter. It could move on cities. ”
- It was eight years between Josa and me, I was the typical big sister with glasses and anxiety. Josa came like a rocket, she didn't ask for permission to sing, she sang so that it screamed in the boxes. Her whole life was obvious to her. It was she who taught us in Ainbusk to wear high heels, she brought us all. I am so grateful for that, it was my rescue, ”says Marie Nilsson-Lind.
- I never met Josefin, but I would have liked to meet her. At the same time, everyone has been so good at telling her that I feel that I have a very clear picture of who she was, says Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl.
Marie Nilsson-Lind will write clearly the book that Josefin Nilsson just started on. She has had meetings with a publisher, she does not want to say which, but says that the book is supposed to come either in the fall or in February 2020.
- In all old TV clips, Josefin and Marie fill each other's sentences, says Anna-Carin Stenholm Pihl.
- I am very used to talking in half sentences. She took the other half. Now I have to learn to finish my sentences myself, says Marie Nilsson-Lind.