About Åke Hodell
Åke Hodell (April 30, 1919 - July 29, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, playwright, painter, publisher, electroacoustic / text-sound composer, and visual artist.
Son of author Björn Hodell and brother of actress Ulla Hodell, Åke Hodell was trained as a fighter pilot, but after a crash in a field in southernmost Sweden in Skåne during practice in July 17, 1941 he had to spend two years at Lund's hospital where he befriended Swedish author **Gunnar Ekelöf**, and also became a dedicated anti-militarist.
In 1944, while heading the children's theatre department at **Malmö Stadsteater**, Hodell wrote a satirical play about inner city children, *Rännstensungar*, which he set up at the movie theatre **Amiralen** in Malmö that year. It also became a low-brow comedy movie the same year (with a remake in 1974, and an "inspired of" movie, *Förortsungar* in 1996 with a nine-year-old Gustaf Skarsgård). Hodell published his first text with the book *Flyende pilot* in 1953, and began experimenting with what he called "elektronismer", later known as "text-sound composition": a blend of radioplay and musique concrète focused on narratives and their electronic enhancements. Many radioplays were produced at [[label:Sveriges Radio]], often with a strong political theme, such as the banned *Mr. Smith in Rhodesia* from 1969. He also worked with **Pistolteatern** in Stockholm, and on Nov. 4, 1964 he set up his play, *Lågsniff*, at **Moderna Muséet**, and again in January 1965 at Pistolteatern, which [[artist:2470241]] recorded and also aired in December that year.
From 1963 to 1972, Hodell ran [[label:Kerberos Förlag]] which published books by Öyvind Fahlström, Christer Hennix Lille, and himself, as well as translations of Vladimir Majakovskij and Arthur Cravan.
