Bert Karlsson

Bert Willis Karlsson ( born June 21, 1945 in Tidan ) is a Swedish politician, entrepreneur, record producer and presenter. Bert Karlsson founded with Ian Wachtmeister 1991, the Democratic Party Ny. Between 1991 and 1994 he was a member of the Swedish parliament.

Life

Since teenage years active business, he first founded the record company Mariann. In 1984 he opened the amusement park Skara Sommarland, whose leadership he had to give up after a threat of bankruptcy in 1994. Karlsson was planning another park, Fame World, which opened in 2005. Due to economic problems completed these nine months later.

Bert Karlsson works through his music label Mariann Grammofon AB since the 1980s with many of the well-known Swedish artists, including Eddie Meduza, Linda Bengtzing, Euro vision winner Charlotte Perrelli and the Viking rock band Ultima Thule.

The party Ny democratic founded with him saw considerable media attention mainly through populist slogans selected. In September, the Ny democratic received 6.7 percent in elections to the Reichstag. Bert Karlsson was elected without political experience in the Reichstag.

Politically Karlsson occurs today only rarely. After the party Ny democratic according to internal disputes lost the majority of their voters in the 1994 elections, he went back to work as an entrepreneur and producer. Bert Karlsson formed from the reality show Fame Factory Fame, the duo that won the Melodifestivalen 2003 and finished fifth at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2003.

During a television interview in March 2005, Bert Karlsson signed an application for membership in the party Folkpartiet liberal nutrition. When the party criticized this step as a media spectacle, he moved the application back.

In the fall of 2006 Karlsson led a talk show with the name Bert at the Swedish TV station 8 Previously, he had been involved in programs you är vad du äter and Ett liv herrans. Also Karlsson was one of the judges in the TV 4 show Talang 2007, the Swedish version of America's Got Talent. Beginning of 2007 was Bert Karlsson known that he wanted to create a book publisher named Heja Sverige. He self-published and includes The self-written book " Berts fräckisar ".

In addition to the introduction to online trading and online poker entrepreneur is still active as a television presenter.