Elof Gösta Harry "Hagge" Geigert, née Johansson, (30 June 1925 – 14 February 2000) was a Swedish revue-writer, theater director, television entertainer, author, journalist and debater.[1]

Hagge Geigert
Geigert and Monica Zetterlund

He was born in Lerdal, Dalsland, Sweden. In television he participated in several entertainment-topic shows. In 1958 he presented Måndagsposten on SVT, in 1975 he presented the talk show Gäst hos Hagge, amongst his guests were Lill-Babs, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Anita Ekberg.[2]

During several years he wrote columns for Göteborgs-Posten, several of his columns was re-published in the book Hagge på hugget in 1990.[3]

Between 1965 and 1997, he was leader of the Lisebergsteatern in Gothenburg, where he would direct and participate in Hagges revy as a yearly tradition.[4]

He was awarded the Illis quorum in 1998.[5]

Geigert died in Gothenburg in 2000.

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  1. ^ Hagge har avlidit Archived 2005-02-14 at the Wayback Machine Aftonbladet Retrieved 29 June 2017
  2. ^ Öppet Arkiv Archived 2016-10-23 at the Wayback Machine SVT Retrieved 29 June 2017
  3. ^ "Hagge på hugget - Kåserie... - Hagge Geigert - 24 SEK". bokborsen.se. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Joakim Geigert fortsätter pappas kamp mot KOL". Hjärt-Lungfonden. Archived from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Regeringens belöningsmedaljer och regeringens utmärkelse: Professors namn". Regeringskansliet (in Swedish). January 2006. Archived from the original on 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
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