Frankie Fouganthin

Education & professional background

Social and business administration basic education. Work in health care, mental care, prison care. Official in the private business world. University studies. Chairman of the student area association. Board assignments within university departments. High school teacher in political and economic history, religion and social studies. Entrepreneur. Publisher. Co-founder of the travel magazine Vagabond. Journalist. Project manager.

Social background and interests

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Short background

Working class background. Growing up in Västergötland. Work and university studies in Gothenburg and Stockholm. Startup companies and travels around the world. Living in Stockholm.

Cultural and natural interests

Consumer of The arts; theater, dance, music, literature, poetry, architecture, exhibitions, lectures. Nature interests, sailing, cycling. Skydiver for many years. Great admirer of the Swedish Cultural Heritage. Stockholm Lover.

Natural science

Geography, biology, physiology, palaeontology, anthropology, archeology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, technology, physics, astronomy and other natural science.

Culture

In all its forms and periods

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Architecture

Art

Classical music

Monteverdi, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Bartok, Stravinskij, Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, and others.

Documentary film

(Unknown Russian photographer, 1929)

Exhibitions

Festivals

Films

Chaplin, Bunuel, Fellini, Hitchcock, Truffaut, Kurozawa, Kubrick, Herzog, Kieslowski, Fassbinder, Tanner, Tarkovskij, Bergman, Troell, Andersson, and others.

Lectures & debates

Literature

Dostojevskij, Tjechov, Kafka, Mann, Musil, Joyce, Faulkner, Camus, Borges, Milosz, Kundera, Handke, Pinter, Strindberg, Söderberg, Martinsson, Moberg, Johnson, Kyrklund, Gustafsson, Enquist, and others.

Magazines

Modern dance

Museums

Opera

Photography

Eugène Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vivian Maier,Joel Meyerowitz, Annie Leibovitz, Lennart Nilsson, Martin Parr, Christer Strömholm, Helen Levitt, Lars Tunbjörk, and others.

Pop music

Poetry

Goethe, Bellman, Franzén, Tegnér, Geijer, Stagnelius, Almqvist, Runeberg, Strindberg, Heidenstam, Fröding, Ferlin, Österling, Andersson, Södergran, Boye, Ekelöf, Dagerman, Tranströmer, Lugn, Öijer, and others.