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Olle Helander

Swedish writer and journalist (1919-1976)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ5798381 ↗
Source-derived summary

Olle Helander (2 August 1919 in Stockholm – 15 April 1976) was a Swedish music journalist, author, producer and presenter of radio and TV. From 1950 he was head of jazz at Sveriges Radio and 1956 took the initiative to Radiobandet. Material from the radio series Blueskvarter has since been released on CD. From 1965 he was hired as a TV producer responsible for the Swedish outtakes to Melodifestivalen during the end of the 60s.

Editorial summary

“Olle Helander” enters the record as swedish writer and journalist (1919-1976). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Olle, Helander and Swedish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 1976, 1950, 1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Olle, Helander and Swedish.
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Why this record matters

“Olle Helander” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Olle, Helander and Swedish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5798381. The first chronological checks are 1919, 1976, 1950 and 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Olle Helander” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.