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Place of Birth: Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
About Jakob Skarstein
- Jakob Sæthre Skarstein (born 7 June 1921) is a Norwegian radio personality. He was born in Ålesund as the son of civil engineer Karl Skarstein (1892–1941) and Svanhild Sæthre (1898–1941).
- After taking his examen artium in 1940 he moved to Bergen in 1941, where he took miscellaneous education and jobs.
- He participated in the Bergens Dramatiske Klubb, illegal during the German occupation of Norway.
- In May 1945, when it became clear that Germany would lose World War II, Skarstein was asked to prepare free radio broadcasts to be used after the liberation.
- The Germans left the radio studio of Bergen— in Strandgaten—on 9 May.
- This day, Skarstein's first radio broadcast took place.
- He was soon employed by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, and spent his career at the regional office in Bergen, with short exceptions.
- He is especially became known for the program Middagsstunden, created in 1966.
- During the Bergen International Festival he headed the program Festspillopper.
- In 1965 he married his assistant from the latter program, later television presenter and politician Inger-Lise Haug.Skarstein also wrote ballads, revues, radio dramas and participated in amateur theatre.
- He wrote a songbook for the city of Bergen, Den nystemte, which was released in 1973 and re-released in 1993.
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