Lars Mullback

Lars Mullback
Lars Mullback
Personal details
Born	1961, precise date unknown Karlsborg, Sweden
Citizenship	Swedish
Nationality	Swedish
Spouse(s)	Annette Mullback
Occupation	Author, journalist, entrepreneurial businessman, motivational speaker, film director, theatre director, radio producer, restaurateur, “Christian folk-educator”

Lars Mullback (born in Karlsborg, Västra Götaland County, in 1961) is an award-winning Swedish entrepreneur, author, journalist, businessman, motivational speaker, film director, theatre director, radio producer, restaurateur and self-described “Christian folk-educator” (Swe. “kristen folkbildare”).

Though the bulk of his work deals with his struggles to overcome the physical, psychological, and social limitations imposed on him by his light case of cerebral palsy, in later years he has been known to partake in other debates as well: For example, exposing "reverse sexism" discrimination against men in Swedish custody battles, and taking sides in Sweden’s so-called “meat debate” (Swe. “köttdebatten”) in the mid-2000’s.

According to Mullback, most of these journalistic endeavours have been blocked from reaching a mass audience by the Swedish mass media establishment, thereby forcing him to retaliate by launching his own free, internet-based TV channel, named Café-TV.

On a statement on the homepage of his now-bankrupt restaurant Mullback Café, he proclaims that with the launch of the channel, popular hard-hitting journalistic TV shows like “Uppdrag Granskning” and “Kalla Fakta” will “no longer have a monopoly on public debate” (Swe. “kommer inte längre att ha monopol på samhällsdebatten”).

On the same homepage he claims[2] to have recorded seven episodes á 25 minutes each of Mullback Café, sommartankar ("Mullback Café, summer thoughts"), a non-fiction TV-series wherein “known and unknown people” express themselves about “life and the world” (Swe. “kända och okända människor (…) livet och världen”). At least two major Swedish TV channels – SVT and TV4 – were approached with an offer to pick up the final result, but according to Mullback[3], both channels failed to return repeated requests.

As of March 2009, Café-TV has failed to materialize, and consequently Mullback Café, sommartankar has never been broadcast to the Swedish public.

Biography

Mullback was born in the city of Karlsborg, Sweden, in 1961.

After initially studying psychology, Swedish and cultural studies (Swe. "kulturvetarlinjen"), he turned his attention to radio theatre at Radio Skaraborg. After three hit plays, he took up initial film studies at Kalix Folkhögskola.[4], and then alternated through-out the 1980s between freelancing as a journalist, working with children's theatre and directing his own award-winning short films on his spare time.

At the close of the decade, he moved to Stockholm with hopes of entering Dramatiska Institutet to study to become a full-fledged film director. Famously, he bypassed all the usual auditions and tests through simply walking up to the headmaster of the school and demanding that he'd be accepted, repeating his demand until the headmaster relented.^{[citation needed]} In 1993, having finished his directorial studies, he wrote and directed Illusions, an erotic thriller starring Reine Brynolfsson, Jonna Järnefelt, Anders Ekborg and Claes Månsson. Poking fun at contemporary Swedish movie conventions, Mullback briefly appears in a little-noted cameo, playing himself.^{[citation needed]}

The Petö method

Escaping his new-found fame, in 1995 Mullback left Sweden for Hungary—a move that would change his life forever. During his stay, he discovered the Petö method (aka conductive education), named after András Pető.

Having earlier been a

He now learned to walk by himself, eat, drive a car,

He married his Hungarian nurse

Moved back to Sweden.

A documentary about his

In the live debate that was broadcast directly following the screening of the documentary, to the great surprise of everyone from host Göran Rosenberg[5] to the studio audience,

In a totally unscripted moment, live on TV Mullback suddenly appeared in the studio, fighting his way through SVT's security personnel, finally getting hold of a microphone and delivering a glowing tirade, haranguing the studio audience and pontificating at great length about

The episode, which immediately became Swedish TV history thrust Mullback's cause into the limelight—he was now, arguably, at the peak of his fame.

During this time

The decline

It has been speculated^{[citation needed]} that Mullback's motorical skills have greatly diminished since his "golden age" of ca. 1996-1997.

Eyewitness accounts from his restaurant,

It has been noted^{[citation needed]} that a close examination of his signature from year to year reveals

Trivia

He is the third cousin of Swedish death metal band Sabaton's drummer, Daniel Mullback.^{[citation needed]}

Partial bibliography

• Anklagelser
• Fast jag
• Kärlekens färg
• Äventyrens tid

Partial filmography

• Illusioner

External links

• Mullback's official homepage