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Kajsa
Kajsa is a Swedish feminine given name. Initially, Kajsa, Kaisa or Cajsa was a variation of the name Karin, in turn a variation of the name ''Katarina'' (Catherine). It is known in Sweden since 1540. It is also used in Finland and Norway. Notable people with the name include: *Halta-Kajsa (1792–1857), Swedish story teller * Kajsa Bergqvist (born 1976), Swedish high jumper *Kajsa Bergström (born 1981), Swedish curler *Kajsa Ekis Ekman (born 1980), Swedish journalist and writer *Kajsa Ernst (born 1962), Swedish actress *Kajsa Grytt (born 1961), Swedish musician *Kajsa Kling (born 1988), Swedish alpine skier *Kajsa Nilsson (born 1982), Swedish orienteer * Kajsa Norman (1820–1903), Swedish folk musician *Kajsa Ollongren (born 1967), Dutch-Swedish politician *Kajsa Reingardt (born 1957), Swedish actress * Kaisa Pöyry (1818-1892), Finnish cunning woman and herbalist *Kajsa Rinaldo Persson (born 1997), Swedish tennis player *Kajsa Thoor (1971–2023), Swedish journalist and televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Bergqvist
Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist (; born 12 October 1976 in Sollentuna, Stockholm) is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003, is also a Swedish record. Her indoor record of 2.08 m, set at the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in 2006, is the world indoor record. Biography Career Bergqvist was born up in Sollentuna Municipality in Stockholm County. Her interest in sport began when she was 6 years old and tried sports such as football, volleyball, badminton, swimming, and cross-country skiing, none of which was able to keep her interest. When she was 10 years old, she was persuaded by her big brother, Anders, to compete in Rösjöloppet, a long-distance track event. After that event, she began to try out several athletic events. Bergqvist continued to train in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ysätters-Kajsa
Ysätters-Kajsa was a ''wind-troll'' that people in the Swedish province of Närke used to believe in; probably the only one of her kind in Scandinavia. The Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf immortalised Ysätters-Kajsa in the first part of Chapter 24 of her famous novel ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' (1906–1907). She wrote that in the Swedish province of Närke, in the old days, there lived a troll named Ysätters-Kajsa. She was named ''Kajsa'' because wind-trolls used to be called by that name. Her cognomen Ysätter came from the swamp Ysätter () in Asker parish where she was born. She appeared to have lived in Asker parish, but she played jokes on people all over Närke and was unique to that region. Portrayal by Lagerlöf Ysätters-Kajsa was not a dark and gloomy troll, but a happy and playful one. What she liked most was a real gale. As soon as there was enough wind she would leave her home to go dance on the Närke flatland. Närke is essentially nothing but a flatlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Grytt
Karin Johanna (''Kajsa'') Grytt (born 20 June 1961) is a Swedish punk-rocker, guitarist, singer and songwriter. She was between 1979 and 1985 guitarist in the band Tant Strul and 1985 to 1988 and around 1996 a member of the duo Kajsa och Malena. Grytt wrote most of the lyrics to the band's songs. Grytt is nowadays a solo singer and made her musical comeback in 2003. She played along with David Giese during a few years, and then along with Jari Haapalainen, who also produced her two latest solo albums. She has so far made five solo albums and on her album ''Brott & straff'' several of the songs were written by female prisoners. On the same album Grytt did a duet with Joakim Thåström. In 2011, Kajsa Grytt released the album ''En kvinna under påverkan'' and the biography book ''Boken om mig själv'' (en:the book about myself). In April 2011 Sveriges Television broadcast an interview with Grytt where she talked about the book and the new album and how she looks on her life thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Kling
Kajsa Britta Kling (born 25 December 1988) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Sweden. Born in Åre, Kling competed in all five alpine disciplines. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, she finished 26th in the giant slalom. On 28 December 2010, Kling crashed during a giant slalom race in Semmering, Austria, which ended her 2011 season. On 14 December 2013, Kling attained her first World Cup podium, placing second in a Super-G race in St. Moritz, Switzerland St. Moritz (also german: Sankt Moritz, rm, , it, San Maurizio, french: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in .... Ahead of the 2017/18 season, it was announced that Kling would take a break from World Cup racing because of depression. Kling set no target for a return at the time. In August 2018, Kling announced her decision not to return to the World Cup and retire from active comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Kajsa "Ekis" Ekman is a Swedish author and journalist. She has written four books, translated into several languages, about capitalism, economic crises, and women's rights. She lectures internationally on prostitution and surrogacy. She is a regular contributor to the Swedish newspaper ''Aftonbladet'' and is a columnist in the Norwegian newspaper ''Klassekampen.'' She has also contributed to Kathemerini. Books Her book ''Being and Being Bought'', compares the sex industry and the surrogacy industry, and how they both commodify women's bodies. It argues that both industries are at the intersection between capitalism and patriarchy. It criticizes the notion of sex work as being an unholy alliance between the neoliberal right and the postmodern left, used to legitimize the sex industry. After two years of investigating so-called "trade unions for sex workers" in Europe, often undercover, she notices that they in many cases are funded by pimps, states, and academics, and have very l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Ollongren
Jkvr. Karin Hildur "Kajsa" Ollongren (; ; born 28 May 1967) is a Dutch politician serving as the Netherlands' Minister of Defence since 10 January 2022. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66), she previously served as Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and second Deputy Prime Minister in the third Rutte cabinet (2017–2022), and briefly as Mayor of Amsterdam (October 2017). Early life and education Ollongren was born on 28 May 1967 in Leiden to Jhr. Alexander Ollongren, a Dutch East Indies-born astronomer and computer scientist, and his Swedish wife Gunvor Lundgren. The Dutch Ollongren, originating from the Russian branch of the Finnish-Swedish noble family (originally named Ållongren), was incorporated into the untitled Dutch nobility in 2002, thereby giving her the noble predicate "jonkvrouw". Because of her Swedish mother, she also has Swedish citizenship. Ollongren grew up in Oegstgeest, where she attended the secondary school Rijnlands Lyceum between 1979 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Ernst
''Kajsa'' Anna-Karin Linnéa Ernst, (born 4 August 1962) is a Swedish actress. She started acting at the age of sixteen at Nöjesteatern in Malmö and studied at Teaterhögskolan in Malmö. After graduating she worked for ten years at Helsingborgs stadsteater. There she acted in several plays such as ''Byggmästare Solness'', ''Spindelkvinnans kyss'' and ''Knäckebröd och hovmästarsås''. In 1982 she danced balet at plays for Nils Poppe at Fredriksdalsteatern, and in 1990 she played a role in the play ''Två man och en änka'' at the same theater. She would appear in the filmatization of the play in 2013. In 1998, Ernst moved to Stockholm. She made her film debut in Kjell Sundvalls ''In Bed with Santa'' in 1999, she has then moved on to act in films such as ''Miffo'' in 2003, ''Masjävlar'' in 2004 for which she won a Guldbagge award, and also in the film ''Järnets änglar''. Kajsa Ernst was married to actor and director Göran Stangertz Göran Nils Robert Stangertz (19 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Thoor
Kajsa Thoor (2 June 1971 – 2 January 2023) was a Swedish journalist and television presenter who was employed by the Sveriges Television (SVT) in the 1990s. She was born on 2 June 1971. In 1998 she was among the participants of a competition called På spåret. She died at age 51 in Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ... on 2 January 2023 after being injured in an apartment fire. References 20th-century Swedish journalists 1971 births 2023 deaths Swedish women journalists Swedish television journalists Deaths from fire {{Sweden-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Bergström
Kajsa Magdalena Bergström (born 3 January 1981) is a Swedish curler. The younger sister of curler Anna Le Moine, she has skipped for the club Sveg CK for the past two years. Bergström played on the Swedish team in the 2009 Mount Titlis World Women's Curling Championship and was selected as the alternate for the Swedish women's curling team at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Teammates 2009 Gangneung World Championships 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games Anette Norberg, ''Skip'' Eva Lund, ''Third'' Cathrine Lindahl, ''Second'' Anna Le Moine Anna Maria Le Moine (born 30 October 1973 as Anna Bergström; also formerly known as Anna Svärd), is a Swedish curler. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, she was the lead for the Swedish team who won the gold-medal after a thrilling f ..., ''Lead'' References External links * 1981 births Living people People from Härjedalen Swedish female curlers Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Kavat
''Brenda Brave Helps Grandmother'' (original title: Kajsa Kavat) is a 1950 story by Astrid Lindgren about a young girl named Brenda (Kajsa) in Sweden. The book about the character has been translated into many different languages. Plot As a baby, Brenda is put onto the doorstep of a woman, that she later calls grandmother. Her grandmother takes care of her until she breaks her leg. Then Brenda suddenly is the one to take care of her grandmother. She goes to the market and sells the bonbons that her grandmother made and cleans the house. As Brenda has helped out so well, she gets the doll for Christmas that she had always wished for. Background The story was first published in 1949 in the Swedish magazine ''Vi'', illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman. In 1950 it was included in a novel collection called ''Kajsa Kavat''. Later it was published as a picture book on its own, illustrated by Ilon Wikland. It was translated into many languages, among them English and German. While the Swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Reingardt
Kajsa Louise Reingardt (born 22 June 1957, Malmö, Sweden) is a Swedish actress. Reingardt studied at Malmö Theatre Academy 1977–80 and worked after the education at Malmö City Theatre but also at Borås City Theatre. Since 1992 she works at Stockholm City Theatre. Selected filmography *2008 - ''Oskyldigt dömd ''Oskyldigt dömd'' (English title: Verdict Revised) is a Swedish drama television series released in 2008. The first season was recorded in twelve episodes during February 2008 to be aired later during the fall. It premiered on the Finnish TV ch ...'' (TV) *2007–2010 - '' Hotell Kantarell'' (TV) *2006–present - '' Häxan Surtant'' (TV) *2005 - ''Van Veeteren – Carambole'' *1998 - '' Beck – Öga för öga'' *1989 - ''Fallgropen'' *1986 - ''Skånska mord'' (TV) *1979 - ''Våning för 4'' (TV) References External links *Kajsa Reingardt on Swedish Film Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Reingardt, Kajsa Swedish actresses People from Malmö Living p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Kajsa Norman
Anna-Kajsa Norman (1820–1903), known as Spel-Stina or Spelstina (Playing Stina), was a Swedish folk musician, a spelman (violinist), and a composer. Life Norman was born in Dalarna and lived her adult life in Torsåker. Originally working as servant, she came to be regarded as one of the best spelmans in Gästrikland Gästrikland () is a historical province or ''landskap'' on the eastern coast of Sweden. It borders Uppland, Västmanland, Dalarna, Hälsingland and the Gulf of Bothnia. Gästrikland is the southernmost of the Norrland provinces. Other forms of ... for her skill as a violinist within folk music. Female spelmans were a rarity, and she is also one of the few female spelmans which are sufficiently documented. Norman was unmarried but lived with Erik Hellström i Berg, with whom she had five children, among them her son Anders, who wrote down her songs. Anna-Kajsa Norman composed two collections of songs: ''Från Hälsingland'' and ''Från Delsbo''. Legacy In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
