# Rederiet

Rederiet (High Seas or The Shipping Company) was a (318 episodes) Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between August 1992 and April 2002. The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors.
The 45-minute episodes were broadcast weekly on Thursday nights on the public-service channel SVT1 and normally had between one and two million viewers. For ten years, Rederiet was the number-one rated show on Swedish television, along with the rival TV4 show Tre Kronor. The competition for viewers can be compared to that between Dynasty and Dallas.
Rederiet also gained popularity in Finland on Yle TV2, and the show was a hit in Norway too on TV2. The first season of the show was also sold to Egypt. The later seasons of the series were produced in collaboration with YLE, which led most notably to Finnish actor Åke Lindman appearing in the series. Rapper Ken Ring also appeared as an extra in the show in 1996.
Rederiet became the first TV-series in Sweden to show a kiss between two homosexual characters, the kiss scene received attention in media.
On April Fools' Day 1993 SVT News announced that Mel Gibson was to play a lead role in the series. Gibson himself was interviewed and confirmed the information. It was later revealed that the whole event had been a joke.

## Plot

The story is about a shipping company which conducts cruiseferry traffic on the Baltic Sea between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland. It takes place on board MS Freja, the exterior of which was portrayed in the series by the Finnish registered MS Birka Princess. In the series the ship has different funnel colours from the ones in real life; in reality they were blue, yellow and red but in the series they were retouched to appear as different shades of blue. The show follows life on board the ship, mostly focusing on the crew and captain, but also on some of the passengers. The plot often involves love, breakups, accidents, deaths, murders, smuggling, theft, arson, rape, drugs, and insanity.
Another part of the story takes place on land, following the life of the Dahléns, the family who owns and runs the shipping company. There are also rival companies who try to gain control over the company, which leads to a constant struggle for power.

## Characters

Here is a list of the characters in Rederiet:
| Actors | Character | Season |
| Gösta Prüzelius | Reidar Dahlén | 1992 - 2000 |
| Gaby Stenberg | Elinor Dahlén/Beatrice Dahlén | 1992/1994-2002 |
| Mikael Samuelson | Rolf Dahlén | 1992 - 1993 |
| Suzanne Reuter | Renate Dahlén | 1992 - 1994 |
| Gunilla Paulsen | Rebecca Dahlén | 1992 - 1993, 1994, 2001 - 2002 |
| Lena Strömdahl | Yvonne Dahlén | 1992 - 1996 |
| Louise Belfrage/Sara Alström | Lina Dahlén | 1992 - 1993, 1996 - 1997 |
| Emil Boss / Måns Nathanaelson | Reidar Dahlén Jr "Junior" | 1992 - 1995/1995 - 1997 |
| Bengt Bauler | Carl Ericson | 1994 - 2000, 2002 |
| Bert-Åke Varg | Gustav Sjögren | 1992 - 2002 |
| Wallis Grahn | Gerd Sjögren | 1992 - 1993 |
| Angelica Rubertson | Sofie Sjögren | 1992 - 1994, 1998 |
| Kenneth Söderman | Tony Sjögren | 1992 - 2002 |
| Margaretha Byström | Katarina Remmer | 1997 - 2002 |
| Patrik Bergner | Nikolaj Remlund | 1998 - 2002 |
| Lotta Karlge | Anja Remmer | 2000 - 2002 |
| Johan H:son Kjellgren | Viktor Remmer | 1998 - 1999 |
| Carina Lidbom | Alexandra Remmer | 1998 - 2001 |
| Marie Robertson | Nina Remmer | 1998 - 2001 |
| Mikaela Ramel | Eva "Angelique" Wiik/Roberts/Remmer | 1999 - 2000, 2002 |
| Tommy Nilson | Ivan Remmer | 1997 |
| Anders Ahlbom | Yngve Almkvist | 1992 - 1993 |
| Anders Beckman | Günther Kraft | 1994 |
| Anders Larsson | Malte Eriksson | 1994 - 2001 |
| Anita Wall | Elisabeth Lerwacht | 1993 - 1994 |
| Anna-Maria Samuelsson Käll | Emelie Lindberg | 1998 - 2000 |
| Bojan Westin | Barbro Pastorelli | 1995 - 1996 |
| Cecilia Ljung | Peggy Svensson | 1994 |
| Claes Ljungmark | Joel Hagberg | 1994 - 1995, 1996 |
| Duncan Green | Peter Henson | 2000-2002 |
| Dan Ekborg | Kaj Öhman | 2002 |
| Daniel Gustavsson | Mattias Andersson | 2001 - 2002 |
| Daniel Sjöberg | Thomas Nilsson | 1992 - 1993 |
| Erik Kiviniemi | Jussi Tola | 1993 - 1994, 2001 |
| Erika Höghede | Karin Bergström/Anna Lindell | 2000 - 2002 |
| Eva Bysing | Irma Larsson/Nilsson | 1992 - 1996 |
| Sofia Helin | Minna Lager | 1996, 1998 |
| Ewa Carlsson | Margareta Lundqvist/Lager/Hammar | 1996 - 2001 |
| Pia Green | Sara Torstensson | 1993 - 1994 |
| Göran Gillinger | Robert "Raspen" Torstensson | 1993 - 1994 |
| Hans V. Engström | Uno Kronkvist | 1992 - 2002 |
| Helena Grossi | Lisa Axelsson | 1992 - 1993 |
| Ingar Sigvardsdotter | Jessica Strömberg | 2000 |
| Ingela Olsson | Gisela Kunze | 1993 |
| Helena af Sandeberg | Louise Calling | 1997-1998 |
| Jessica Liedberg | Stina Björklund | 2002 |
| Johannes Brost | Torbjörn "Joker" Jonasson | 1992 - 2002 |
| Annmari Kastrup | Anki Jonasson | 1996-1998 |
| Jonas Bergström | Haakon Andersson | 1993 |
| Josephine Bornebusch | Madeleine Boisse de Blaque | 1999 |
| Kaija Kärkinen | Pirjo Koskinen | 1992, 1994 |
| Karin Bjurström | Jeanette Wester | 1996 - 1998 |
| Karl Dyall | Emilio Bolivar | 1994 - 1995 |
| Kim Anderzon | Siv Svensson | 1994 - 1996, 2002 |
| Krister Henriksson | Björn Lindman | 1992 - 1993, 2002 |
| Lars Lind | Anders Moberg | 1999 - 2000 |
| Lennart R. Svensson | Tom Hansson | 1992 |
| Linda Lundmark | Eva-Lotta | 2001 - 2002 |
| Linus Wahlgren | Filip "FN" Norberg | 1996 - 1999 |
| Lo Wahl | Karin "KåKå" Karlsson | 1993 - 1995 |
| Lotta Ramel | Diana Nordin | 1995 |
| Magnus Roosmann | Fredrik Westberg | 1999 |
| Malin Berghagen Nilsson | Paula Svensson | 1994, 2002 |
| Marie Chantal-Long | Irina Gornitzka-Jonasson | 1992, 1993 -1994 |
| Martin Forsström | Felix Svensson | 1995 - 1997 |
| Meg Westergren | Desirée Lindman | 1994 - 1995 |
| Mikael Persbrandt | Ola Simonsson | 1992 - 1993, 1994 |
| Minna Treutiger | Tilda Lyksell | 2001 |
| My Bodell | Elin Hagberg | 1995 - 1996 |
| Ola Forssmed | Micki Sandell | 1996 - 2002 |
| Per Graffman | Joe Gardner | 2000 - 2001 |
| Per Holmberg | Henrik Bjurhed | 1992 - 1996, 2002 |
| Per Morberg | Viggo Strieber | 1994 - 1995 |
| Per Myrberg | Robert Boisse de Blaque | 1999, 2000 |
| Peter Harryson | Pehr Silver | 1994 - 1997, 2000, 2002 |
| Peter Perski | Magnus Glantz | 2001 - 2002 |
| Yvonne Schaloske | Vera Bengtsson | 1996, 1997 - 2002 |
| Gerhard Hoberstorfer | Tor "Totte" Bengtsson | 1997 - 1998, 2002 |
| Ray Jones IV | Jesper Haglund | 1999 - 2001 |
| Regina Lund | Mona Kjellgren | 1994 - 1995, 2001 |
| Rikard Bergqvist | Stefan Holmberg | 2000-2002 |
| Sten Ljunggren | Torkel Jonasson | 1993-2001 |
| Stina Rautelin | Andrea Melin | 1998 - 2000 |
| Therese Akraka | Bella Lindgren | 1996 - 1997, 2000 |
| Thomas Hellberg | Georg Lager | 1995 - 1998 |
| Tom Deutgen | Jan-Erik "Janke" Nilsson | 1992, 1994 |
| Yngve Gåsøy | Erik Mattson | 1996-1997 |
| Yvonne Lombard | Sonja Jonasson | 1993-2001 |
| Mats Långbacka | Olof Hammar | 2000 |
| Gösta Krantz | Hans Schneider | 1996-1997 |
| Åke Lindman | Torsten Jansson | 1998 - 1999 |

## Impact on popular culture

On 1 April 2018, the Swedish Star Trek fansite "Star Trek databas" announced, as an April Fool, that CBS had confirmed the series to be set in the same primary fictional universe as Star Trek, and that because of the major costs for a space opera series, the setting was instead changed to a seafaring ship on Earth.