Swedes in the News

Farewell to Anders & Hamida

Ambassador Teppo Tauriainen, Hamida and Anders Neumuller

The official farewell event hosted by the Swedish Ambassador to Canada, Teppo Tauriainen, was held at the Vancouver Club on March 22nd, 2013. The event, which was very well attended by the Swedish and international community was a pleasant tribute to the Neumullers’ for all that they have done for the Swedish Community during their almost 30 years in Vancouver. The Ambassador gave a warm and glowing speech and concluded with presenting a medal to Anders. The medal presented was the Swedish Foreign Service Medal (Utrikesförvaltningens förtjänstmedalj), which is handed out only on rare occasions. Anders was both surprised and humbled by this gesture of appreciation and expressed his gratitude for the medal, their time here and the great friendships developed in the community in his thank you remarks. At Swedish Press we wish them all the best with their new life back in Sweden.

Swede Beverly Hills

In 2009, the Honourable John A. Mirisch was elected to the Beverly Hills City Council and he has done it again this year – this time as mayor. Having lived in Beverly Hills for four generations, the Mirisch family has been a cornerstone in this community. Living abroad for many years as a film executive concerned with marketing and distribution, John A. Mirisch himself worked with United International Pictures as the Managing Director of its Swedish and Austrian Offices. He currently holds a post at Paramount Studios, but his new role as mayor of Beverly Hills will most certainly come first.

Mayor Mirisch (centre) and Councilmembers. Photo: City of Beverly Hills

Success for Swedish Author

Having written a novel about a 100-year-old man whose journey ensues after escaping from an elderly care home, Jonas Jonasson has seen unexpected international literary success. Described by the UK Independent newspaper as “arguably the biggest wordof-mouth literary sensation of the decade,” The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared has sold “five million copies worldwide. The rights to his book have now “been sold to 30 countries and a Swedishlanguage film is due to be released sometime this year.”

Swedish Adele

Göteborg-based singer, Miriam Bryant, is often compared to Adele and is consistently becoming more and more well-known on a global scale. The 22-year-old English and Finnish singer is decidedly and admittedly down to earth even though she has just released her debut album “Raised in Rain.” In fact, she talks about her insecurities, her own voice and how she still does her own chores. Responding to her recent fame, Bryant says that she is flattered and that while dealing with the media can be “annoying,” “comparing me to one of the world’s most talented singers so I take it as a compliment. Adele has an absolutely stunning voice.” She also says, “Sweden is my home and it’s a great country to live in. The best things about Sweden is that it has a very big music scene and has a very wide range of different education in terms

Photo: Mattias Ahlm/sverigesradio.se

of culture.”

Photo: EMI Music Sweden

Traktör Utsedd

För bröllopsmiddagen på Drottningholms slott. Stefano Catenacci och Operakällaren har utsetts till traktör för middagen vid bröllopet den 8 juni 2013 mellan Prinsessan Madeleine och Herr Christopher O’Neill.

Operakällaren har sedan 1961 ansvarat för maten till galabanketter och andra större middagar där Kungen står värd. Operakällaren fick sitt namn 1787 när restaurangen låg i källaren under Gustav III:s operahus.

På 1950-talet tog Tore Wretman över ansvaret för Operakällaren. Alessandro Catenacci, tog över Tore Wretman-restaurangerna i december 1987. Den 30 mars 2012 utsågs Stefano Catenacci till Hovtraktör. Tidigare har Tore Wretman och Werner Vögeli haft den framstående titeln.