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Sven-Åke Johansson

Born 1943 in Mariestad (Sweden), has lived in Berlin since 1968

Composer and musician, poet and visual artist, author and initiator of several music-theater productions, such as "Die Harke und der Spaten", "Über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten beim Turmbau zu Babel" together with Alexander von Schlippenbach (Hebbel Theater Berlin). Numerous exhibitions, book publications, and over 50 LP and CD recordings. He was a major stylistic forerunner within European free improvisational music. In the 60s, together with Alexander von Schlippenbach, Peter Kowald and Peter Brötzmann, he developed a European form of free jazz. Year-long collaboration with Alexander v. Schlippenbach, Rüdiger Carl, Hans Reichel, Dietmar Diesner, Axel Dörner, as well as cooperations with Shelley Hirsch, Andrea Neumann, Manfred Schoof, Ludwig Gosewitz, Thomas Kapielski, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Heiner Goebbels, Blixa Bargeld, and others. Engagement as performer in the Burgtheater, Vienna. He is most well-known as a virtuosic drummer, but he also performs as a singer and speaker.