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Anna Karin Margareta Falck (; born 6 February 1932) is a Swedish
television director A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program. They are generally responsible for decisions about the editorial content and creative style of a program, and ensuring the prod ...
, hostess and producer.


Career

Karin Falck was born in
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,
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and lived her first six years of life in
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. She moved with her mother and younger brother to Stockholm when she was 6 years old since her father died. In her youth, she dreamed of playing ice hockey. When Karin Falck started on TV, she had studied theater history and English at
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, where she wrote an essay on children's theater. She then became an assistant to
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who started Barnteatern (now Vår Teater). She began her TV career in 1954 as a scriptwriter in Alf Sjöberg's TV set of
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. Curiosity about the television medium made her apply for Radiotjänst's first producer course in 1955. The supervisors came from the
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in
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. Other female TV pioneers on the course were Ingrid Samuelsson, Marianne Anderberg, Lena Fürst and Barbro Svinhufvud. Karin Falck's work spans a large part of the history of Swedish television. She was employed at SVT, then known as
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, already in 1956 and has produced and directed many entertainment programs over the years, as well as light drama, theatre and cabaret shows. In 1975, she hosted the
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in
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. In 2007, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual
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, the Swedish television awards. In 2020, she was made a member of the
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Hall of Fame.


See also

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* 1932 births Living people Swedish television personalities Swedish women television presenters Swedish television producers Women television producers Swedish television directors Women television directors {{Europe-tv-bio-stub