Ebba Birgitta von Otter (born 7 January 1939) is a Swedish journalist, author and debater.
Early life
Von Otter was born during her parents' stay in Budapest, Hungary. She is the elder daughter of Göran von Otter, a Swedish diplomat in Berlin during World War II.[1] She is also the older sister of Casten von Otter, Mikael von Otter (1945–2018) and Anne Sofie von Otter.
Career
Von Otter became a licensed physiotherapist in Stockholm in 1962. She was a journalist with Åhlén & Åkerlund from 1971 to 1976 and Aktuellt i Politiken from 1977 to 1979. She served as press secretary at SAP's press service from 1979 to 1982 and information secretary for her husband Kjell-Olof Feldt at the Ministry of Finance from 1982 to 1988 and political expert from 1989 to 1990. She moved to work as a writer and freelance writer in 1990.[2]
Von Otter also had a leading role in the documentary "A Swedish Tiger" (first shown in 2018 in the United States and Germany) which is based on a meeting in 1942 between her father Göran von Otter and SS officerKurt Gerstein, and problematizes missing or delayed reporting on the Holocaust during World War II.[3]
Personal life
From 1962 to 1970, von Otter was married to Gunnar Hörstadius and had three children, including Erik Hörstadius. In 1970, she married her second husband, politician Kjell-Olof Feldt (born 1931).[2]
Bibliography
1989 – Personligt meddelande (novel)
1991 – Navelsträngar och narrspeglar
1991 – Alla dessa dagar (with Kjell-Olof Feldt)
1994 – Glömskans flod (novel)
1996 – Kom igen! – tillbaka till arbetslivet
1996 – Följa med till slutet – om att vaka vid en dödsbädd, Birgitta von Otter, Maud Pihlblad
2000 – Snöängel (novel)
2003 – I cancerns skugga – ett år av förtvivlan och hopp, Kjell-Olof Feldt & Birgitta von Otter
2010 – Kvarlevor (novel)
2013 – Barnläkarfallet: En förnekad rättsskandal (with Kjell-Olof Feldt)
2016 – Vägen ut. En loggbok om alkoholism och medberoende (with Kjell-Olof Feldt)
References
^Paldiel, Mordecai, Saving the Jews: Amazing Stories of Men and Women Who Defied the "Final Solution". Schreiber Publishing (ISBN1-887563-55-5), p. 45 (2000).
