Lena Einhorn

Swedish director, writer and physician

Lena Einhorn

Born|  (1954-05-19) 19 May 1954 (age 71)

Spånga, Sweden

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

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Einhorn was born on 19 May 1954[1] in Spånga, Sweden. Her mother, Nina, escaped the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and settled in Sweden, and her father, Jerzy, was a cancer specialist, politician and Holocaust survivor who wrote in 1966 a book about what he had experienced. Her younger brother is doctor and author, Stefan Einhorn.[2]

## Career

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After graduating from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm with a doctorate in virology and tumor biology, she worked as a doctor, specialising in tumour viruses and the causes of cancer in fetuses and newborns.[3]

She changed careers when she lived in the United States in the 1980s and began working as a medical editor at Lifetime Television where she also produced and wrote medical documentaries. She also produced scientific and medical documentaries for independent companies and for PBS until she returned to Sweden in 1994.[3]

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 Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. Einhorn's plan was to make a feature film with her mother as the narrator however, she was not able to secure funding before her mother died in 2002 so she decided to write a book instead. She managed to secure funding six months later and released both a film and a book called Nina's Journey. The film won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film and for Best Screenplay[3] and the book won the 2005 August Prize.[2]

Einhorn co-wrote her first play, Living Room with Anette Sallmander. It premiered in 2008 at Kulturhuset in Stockholm.[3]

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

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1. ^ "Lena Einhorn". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 27 February 2005. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
2. ^ a b Liska, Vivian; Nolden, Thomas (5 December 2007). Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide. Indiana University Press. p. 70\. ISBN 978-0-253-00007-1.
3. ^ a b c d e f "Lena Einhorn | Nordic Women in Film". nordicwomeninfilm (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 August 2020.
4. ^ Einhorn, Lena (2007). The Jesus mystery : astonishing clues to the true identities of Jesus and Paul. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1-59921-148-0.
5. ^ Einhorn, Lena (2016). A shift in time : how historical documents reveal the surprising truth about Jesus. New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-63158-099-4.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
6. ^ 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.

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August Prize for Best Non-Fiction

1990s|

* 1992: Gyllene äpplen – Gunnar Broberg et al.
* 1993: Ofredsår – Peter Englund
* 1994: Musiken i Sverige I–IV – Leif Jonsson et al.
* 1995: Tusen år i trädgården. Från sörmländska herrgårdar och bakgårdar – Maria Flinck
* 1996: Spåren av kungens män – Maja Hagerman
* 1997: I skuggan av framtiden – Sven-Eric Liedman
* 1998: Svenska vägar till S:t Petersburg – Bengt Jangfeldt
* 1999: Engelska – öspråk, världsspråk, trendspråk – Jan Svartvik

2000s|

* 2000: Stora döden – Dick Harrison
* 2001: Minnets stigar – Hans Hammarskjöld, Anita Theorell & Per Wästberg
* 2002: Gustav Vasa – landsfader eller tyrann? – Lars-Olof Larsson
* 2003: Idéer om livet – Nils Uddenberg
* 2004: Europas idéhistoria 1492–1918: Världens ordning och Mörkret i människan – Sverker Sörlin
* 2005: Ninas resa – Lena Einhorn
* 2006: Qin – Cecilia Lindqvist
* 2007: Med livet som insats – Bengt Jangfeldt
* 2008: Regi Bergman – Paul Duncan & Bengt Wanselius
* 2009: Att överleva dagen – Brutus Östling & Susanne Åkesson

2010s|

* 2010: Den röda grevinnan – Yvonne Hirdman
* 2011: Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar – Elisabeth Åsbrink
* 2012: Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig – Berättelsen om Raoul Wallenberg – Ingrid Carlberg
* 2013: The Expedition: The Forgotten Story of a Polar Tragedy – Bea Uusma
* 2014: Naturlära – Lars Lerin
* 2015: Min europeiska familj. De senaste 54 000 åren – Karin Bojs

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Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay

* Bengt Danneborn & Lennart Persson (1988)
* Stig Larsson & Åke Sandgren (1989)
* Kjell Grede (1990)
* Clas Lindberg (1991)
* Ingmar Bergman (1992)
* Daniel Alfredson & Jonas Cornell (1993)
* Peter Dalle & Rolf Börjlind (1994)
* Jonas Gardell (1995)
* Per Olov Enquist (1996)
* Annika Thor (1997)
* Lukas Moodysson (1998)
* Ulf Stark (1999)
* Roy Andersson (2000)
* Hans Gunnarsson & Mikael Håfström (2001)
* Lukas Moodysson (2002)
* Björn Runge (2003)
* Maria Blom (2004)
* Lena Einhorn (2005)
* Hans Renhäll & Ylva Gustavsson (2006)
* Roy Andersson (2007)
* John Ajvide Lindqvist (2008)
* Ulf Malmros (2009)
* Lisa Langseth (2010)
* Josefine Adolfsson & Lisa Aschan (2011)
* Gabriela Pichler (2012)
* Anna Odell (2013)
* Ruben Östlund (2014)
* Peter Grönlund (2015)
* Johannes Nyholm (2016)
* Amanda Kernell (2017)
* Peter Grönlund (2018)
* Levan Akin (2019)
* Uje Brandelius (2020)
* Nathalie Álvarez Mesén & Maria Camila Arias (2021)

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