Ann Heberlein
{{Short description|Swedish author, ethicist and theologian}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Ann Heberlein
| image = Ann Heberlein signerar på Akademibokhandeln i Stockholm.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Heberlein signing a book at a bookstore in Stockholm in November 2011
| birth_name = Ann Helen Holmström
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|6|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Malmö, Sweden
| nationality = Swedish
| period = 2004–present
| alma_mater = Lund University
| occupation = Writer
}}
{{Conservatism in Sweden|Intellectuals}}
Ann Helen Heberlein ({{née|Holmström}}; born 22 June 1970)Sveriges Släktforskar association CD-Sveriges befolkning 1970 is a Swedish academic and author, who writes extensively on theology and ethics.{{cite web|url=http://www.avhandlingar.se/om/Ann+Heberlein|title=Ann Heberlein|publisher=Avhandlingar.se|accessdate=15 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120501/http://www.avhandlingar.se/om/Ann+Heberlein/|archive-date=17 May 2014|url-status=live}} She is best known for her autobiographical account of life with bipolar disorder, Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva (2008; "I don't want to die, I just don't want to live").
She ran for parliament in the 2018 general election as a Moderate Party representative.{{cite news |url=http://www.nsk.se/2017/06/16/ann-heberlin-kandiderar-for-m-i-riksdagsvalet/ |title=Ann Heberlein kandiderar för M i riksdagsvalet | Norra Skåne |access-date=23 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223160842/http://www.nsk.se/2017/06/16/ann-heberlin-kandiderar-for-m-i-riksdagsvalet/ |archive-date=23 December 2017 |url-status=live }}
Career
Heberlein defended her dissertation Kränkningar och förlåtelse (Abuses and forgiveness) at Lund University in 2005. The thesis was about guilt, shame, moral responsibility, abuses and forgiveness for the dissertation.
In January 2007, she began teaching practical philosophy at Stockholm University, while working on a project about the criminal justice system.{{cite magazine|magazine=Kyrkans Tidning|url=http://www.kyrkanstidning.se/nyhet/ann-heberlein-lamnar-svenska-kyrkan |title=Ann Heberlein lämnar Svenska kyrkan |publisher=Kyrkans Tidning |language=sv |date=14 August 2008 |accessdate=15 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110055817/http://www.kyrkanstidning.se/nyhet/ann-heberlein-lamnar-svenska-kyrkan |archivedate=10 November 2014 }} Since 2009, Heberlein has worked at Lund University.{{cite web|url=http://www.teol.lu.se/en/institutionen/personal/AnnHeberlein|title=Ann Heberlein|publisher=The Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University|date=30 August 2009|accessdate=15 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520022505/http://www.teol.lu.se/en/institutionen/personal/AnnHeberlein|archive-date=20 May 2014|url-status=live}}
She wrote Den sexuella människan in 2004, and contributed to Systematisk teologi (Martinsson, Sigurdson & Svenungsson, 2007).{{cite web|url=http://www.kyrkanstidning.se/debatt/finns-det-ett-alternativ |title=Finns det ett alternativ? |publisher=Kyrkans Tidning |language=sv |date=20 August 2008 |accessdate=15 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517132444/http://www.kyrkanstidning.se/debatt/finns-det-ett-alternativ|archive-date=17 May 2014 }} In 2008, Heberlein published the book Det var inte mitt fel! Om konsten att ta ansvar.{{cite web|url=http://icabokforlag.se/Bocker/Bokpresentationssida/?articleId=3569 |title=Det var inte mitt fel! Om konsten att ta ansvar, Ann Heberlein, 9789153430407, Inbunden |publisher=Icabokforlag.se |accessdate=15 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022170304/http://icabokforlag.se/Bocker/Bokpresentationssida/?articleId=3569 |archivedate=22 October 2013}}
Heberlein is also an author and columnist for the newspapers Sydsvenskan and Dagens Nyheter, and has also previously written columns for Expressen and Axess.{{cite news|url=http://www.expressen.se/kultur/ann-heberlein-ett-gott-liv|title=Ann Heberlein: Ett gott liv|work=Expressen|date=14 October 2011|accessdate=15 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717012939/http://www.expressen.se/kultur/ann-heberlein-ett-gott-liv/|archive-date=17 July 2014|url-status=live}} She also has a column in the Christian paper Kyrkans tidning.{{cite web|author=Thomas Ekstrand|url=http://www.kyrkanstidning.se/skribent/ann-heberlein|title=Ann Heberlein|date=6 December 2011 |publisher=Kyrkans Tidning|language=sv|accessdate=15 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517123611/http://www.kyrkanstidning.se/skribent/ann-heberlein|archive-date=17 May 2014|url-status=live}} She is also a regular at Sveriges Radio's P1 with her own radio show Tankar för dagen.{{cite news|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=1165&grupp=8833&artikel=3231041|title=Ann Heberlein – Serier av Tankar – Tankar för dagen|newspaper=Sveriges Radio|date=11 November 2009|accessdate=15 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517151427/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=1165&grupp=8833&artikel=3231041|archive-date=17 May 2014|url-status=live}} In the summer of 2009, Heberlein was one of the celebrity speakers at the P1 radio show Sommarpratarna.{{cite AV media|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=2071&grupp=7160&artikel=2847721&sida=3|title=Ann Heberlein – Sommar- och Vintervärdar G H I – Sommar & Vinter i P1|publisher=Sveriges Radio|date=16 July 2009|accessdate=15 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517152200/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=2071&grupp=7160&artikel=2847721&sida=3|archive-date=17 May 2014|url-status=live}}
In 2008, Heberlein published Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva, an autobiographical book about her life with suicidal thoughts and severe anxiety and bipolar disorder, which brought her nationwide attention. In 2012, her book became a play at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.{{cite web|url=http://www.dramaten.se/Dramaten/Forestallningar/Jag-vill-inte-do-jag-vill-bara-inte-leva |title=Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva |publisher=Dramaten.se |accessdate=15 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813133005/http://dramaten.se/Dramaten/Forestallningar/Jag-vill-inte-do-jag-vill-bara-inte-leva/ |archivedate=13 August 2013}}
On 24 May 2016, Heberlein resigned from Sydsvenskan after claiming that culture editor Rakel Chukri had forbidden her from writing critically about immigration or Islam on her private Facebook page.{{cite web|title=Ann Heberlein rasar mot Sydsvenskan – avslutar samarbetet|url=http://www.resume.se/nyheter/artiklar/2016/05/24/ann-heberlein-rasar-mot-sydsvenskan-pa-facebook--och-avslutar-samarbetet/|website=resume.se|publisher=Bonnier Business Media|accessdate=29 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528164353/http://www.resume.se/nyheter/artiklar/2016/05/24/ann-heberlein-rasar-mot-sydsvenskan-pa-facebook--och-avslutar-samarbetet/|archive-date=28 May 2016|url-status=live}} Chukri denied having made such a request in an interview.
On 26 January 2018, Kickstarter banned Heberlein's crowdfunding for the book "Rape and Culture – A survey of group violence in Sweden 2012–2017"{{cite web |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/708347418/valdtakt-och-kultur-ann-heberlein |title=Våldtäkt och kultur – Ann Heberlein (Suspended) by Ann Heberlein — Kickstarter |date=23 January 2018 |access-date=10 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408171932/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/708347418/valdtakt-och-kultur-ann-heberlein |archive-date=8 April 2019 |url-status=live }} which became news in mainstream-media in Sweden.{{cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kickstarter-stoppar-ann-heberleins-nya-bok-om-valdtakt/|title=Kickstarter stoppar finansieringen av Heberleins nya bok om våldtäkt|newspaper=Dagens Nyheter|date=26 January 2018|accessdate=27 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127002424/https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kickstarter-stoppar-ann-heberleins-nya-bok-om-valdtakt/|archive-date=27 January 2018|url-status=live}} On 30 January 2018, Heberlein reports she has managed to attract a bit over 1 M SEK through crowdfunding from approximate 5000 backers through other channels.{{cite news|url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/bok/efter-stoppade-kampanjen-heberleins-bok-om-valdtakter-blir-verklighet/|title=Efter stoppade kampanjen: Heberleins bok om våldtäkter blir verklighet|newspaper=SVT Nyheter |publisher=Sveriges Television|date=30 January 2018|accessdate=30 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130224754/https://www.svt.se/kultur/bok/efter-stoppade-kampanjen-heberleins-bok-om-valdtakter-blir-verklighet|archive-date=30 January 2018|url-status=live}}
Bibliography
- Arendt: om kärlek och ondska: biografi. Mondial bokförlag (2020).
- Den banala godheten. Greycat Publishing (2017)
- Gud, om vi ska talas vid du och jag måste jag vara helt ärlig. Bonnier (2015)
- Etik : människa, moral, mening : en introduktion. Bonnier (2014)
- Ett gott liv. Albert Bonniers förlag (2011)
- En liten bok om ondska. Albert Bonniers förlag (2010)
- Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva. Weyler förlag (2008)
- Det var inte mitt fel! Om konsten att ta ansvar. ICA bokförlag (2008)
- Kränkningar och förlåtelse. Thales förlag (2005)
- Den sexuella människan. Etiska perspektiv. Lund (2004)
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