Listen to the story {Play} At the birth of freedom of expression in the 19th Century, Europe was a rather peaceful place. A traveller, a Frenchman, an unknown author, who had finished his duties in Hamburg decides to enter a steamboat in order to visit Sweden and its capital. The…
This is an updated version after Donald Trump’s departure of a post on the Swedish edition of the Bordertraveller blog from 2018. Listen to the story: {Play} Demagogues mean agitators or people seducers and they are masters of fake news. Their business model is aimed at personal gains in terms…
The Bordertravellers, who in a humanistic spirit show the injustices in the old society but also work as the architects for the new, in both small and bigger contexts. They are opponents of nostalgia, while new solutions for the better, sometimes as it turns out for the worse, are their…
Listen to the story: {Play} They were eight in total. Eight intrusive stories, seven that tackle timeless social phenomena. In which the injustice of history has been so strong that once it has been knocked out, it takes on a new shape, and comes back in all its fustiness. Therefore,…
Listen to the story: {Play} Albert Camus is one of the greatest storytellers of all times with penetrating eyes he both perceives the collective conscious and individual mindset, and how these from time to time collide. In “The Plague” he actually with a wealth of words describes what is happening…
Stockholm in September 1844, an author, a traveller, with a half year to his free disposal, enters the city with the steamship Swithiod. On the journey to the Swedish capital, he visited both Ystad and Kalmar in the southern part of Sweden. Now he finally has arrived with great anticipation.…
Listen to the story {Play} The power of words, both their aesthetics, spirit, and influence are often mentioned. To borrow a few words from the short story collection Bordertraveller Stories by LarsGoran Bostrom: “Outside the arena ruling a relative calm. Some kind of lecture is going on. This is where…
Listen to the story {Play} “Nationalisme c’est la guerre” Nationalism is war, the French President Francois Mitterrand declared in a famous speech to the European Parliament in 1995. From history both before and later, not at least today with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, we know that unfortunately the statement never…
