Åke Hodell - 220 Volt Buddha

Åke Hodell (April 30, 1919 - July 29, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, playwright, painter, publisher, electroacoustic / text-sound composer, and visual artist. Son of author Björn Hodell and brother of actress Ulla Hodell, Åke Hodell was trained as a fighter pilot, but after a crash in a field in southernmost Sweden in Skåne during practice in July 17, 1941 he had to spend two years at Lund's hospital where he befriended Swedish author Gunnar Ekelöf, and also became a dedicated anti-militarist. In 1944, while heading the children's theatre department at Malmö Stadsteater, Hodell wrote a satirical play about inner city children, Rännstensungar, which he set up at the movie theatre Amiralen in Malmö that year. It also became a low-brow comedy movie the same year (with a remake in 1974, and an "inspired of" movie, Förortsungar in 1996 with a nine-year-old Gustaf Skarsgård). Hodell published his first text with the book Flyende pilot in 1953, and began experimenting with what he called "elektronismer

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