Ã…se Kleveland

Åse Kleveland (born 18 March 1949 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish-Norwegian musician and politician.

Life

Kleveland moved in 1956 from Sweden to Norway. She studied law at the University of Oslo; Particular emphasis was copyright. In 1966 she appeared for Norway in the Euro Vision Song Contest with the piece Intet he nytt under solen on and reached the 3rd place. In the 1980s Kleveland was president of the Association of Norwegian artists and musicians. In 1986, she moderated in Bergen the first Euro Vision Song Contest on Norwegian soil after last year the duo Bobbysocks had won the competition. From 1986 to 1990 she led a Council for equality of the Norwegian government. From 1990 to 1996 Kleveland was Minister of Culture for the Arbeiderpartiet under Gro Harlem Brundtland. In this role, she took over the political leadership of the 17th Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer.

She was from 2000 to 2006 and President of the Swedish Film Institute. In June 2007, she was chairman of the Human Etisk Forbund, a secular- humanist Norwegian organization.