Barbro Alving. 1909-1987. A Swedish journalist and author who, under the classic signatures Bang and Kärringen mot strömmen, wrote sincerely, and was immensely popular with the Swedish people. As a war reporter, she traveled to Finland and Spain to be on site and report. Only nineteen years old, she got a job as a reporter at Dagens Nyheter, where she worked until 1959.
She was a female pioneer and feminist in a strongly male-dominated newspaper world. Despite that, she created a place for herself in history as a fearless, talented and driven journalist. Barbro Alving was also not afraid of the world around her at the time and opinions about unmarried women who had children. There was no thought of "going to Oslo", as it was called, that is, having an abortion in the neighboring country. Bang thus became a pioneer in terms of unmarried mothers and gave names to many so-called "Bangbarn". Barbro Alving also made the courageous decision at the time to live together with a woman, the noblewoman Loyse Sjöcrona.
The 1936 Berlin Olympics. Her report from the opening of the Olympic Games in Berlin on August 1, 1936 is a classic: "Here come the Egyptians in their red fez, no, their arms stay where they are. Afghanistan, yes. The Argentines who look like lorry drivers – no. Australia too. Belgium holds their straw hats calmly in their hands, the first line looks like a line of decent postal workers, but little Bermuda apparently likes dictatorship, Bolivia too. Brazil puts an end to the line of Hitler salutes, and the applause automatically dies down. But in the Swedish team only one arm is raised, it is a football guy who has found someone familiar in the audience, and that greeting is Swedish. It means "serve".
(From the report in Dagens Nyheter)