Dramatiska Institutet | |
 The Dramatiska Institutet building inÖstermalm | |
Other name | University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre |
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| Established | 1970 |
| Students | 155 (FTE, 2009)[1] |
| Location | , Sweden |
| Website | https://www.uniarts.se/om-skh/stockholms-dramatiska-hogskola |
TheSwedish Institute of Dramatic Art[2] (Swedish:Dramatiska Institutet, DI), also called theUniversity College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre was a Swedishuniversity college inStockholm that provided education programs about activities surrounding film, radio, television, and theater.[3][4] It was founded in 1970 by theSwedish government. Many famous media personalities and others in the film industry have studied at Dramatiska Institutet, includingAnna Asp,Lene Berg,Josef Fares,Mark Levengood,Stina Lundberg Dabrowski,Anders Lundin,Lukas Moodysson,Kjell Sundvall, andLisa Siwe.
On January 1, 2011 the school merged with theSwedish National Academy of Mime and Acting to becomeStockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts.
A merger proposal between Dramatiska Institutet and theSwedish National Academy of Mime and Acting was announced in April 2009. In January 2010, the Swedish government formed a committee to work on the merger. 15 millionkronor were also divided between the two schools to use on the merger.[4]Tobias Krantz, the SwedishMinister for Higher Education and Research, commented that the fact that "Dramatiska Institutet and the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting want to merge together is something I look positively on. If they think that through a merger they can [...] further increase the quality of their educations then that is of course something that the government supports."[4] The new school opened on 1 January 2011.[5]
In 2005, criticism was directed at Dramatiska Institutet after a student read anerotic story at the school for a group of six-year-olds as part of a project to see what effect sex has on children. The story involved two young girls havingoral sex. This quickly gained attention in the Swedish media and it was labeled "the DI-scandal" in the press. Rector Per Lysander defended Dramatiska Institutet by stating that the story-reading had not been approved by them beforehand. The reading was part of a larger project that involved several professors and students from four schools in Stockholm and that was going to lead to a theater play about children's sexuality.[6]
Soon after the incident gained attention, more controversial experiments that had been made for the project were revealed. As a result, Lysander announced that an investigation had been launched by DI.[7]Bengt Westerberg, an investigator hired by the school, found that the students involved in the project had not discussed ethical questions beforehand and had been given bad guidance from the professors. Lysander announced that the result of this investigation "will lay the foundation for change" at the school.[8]
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