Erik Haag (born 28 August 1967) is a Swedish television presenter who hosted one of the semi-finals of ''

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'' and Historieätarna both on SVT. He presents ''Historieätarna'' along with Lotta Lundgren. He has been married to actress and author Martina Haag.

Biography

Haag grew up on Kungsholmen in Stockholm and from 1980 in

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, before the family moved to Sorunda outside

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in 1984. Haag has primarily been active in radio and television. He was awarded the Alfons-Bokalen in 1995 for his contribution to this year's summer holiday program on SVT, where he was the host together with his sister Sara. He was part of the Hassan gang on

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in the 1990s and was the host of ''Knesset'' and ''Let's Go.'' Together with

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, he was also the host of one of the semi-finals of the ''

''. In the autumn of 2009, he led ''Roast at Berns'' on Kanal 5. Erik Haag runs the production company Brommamamma together with Kerstin Johansson and

. Brommamamma is behind TV productions such as ''Sverige dansar och ler'' ( Kanal 5), ''Sjön suger'' ( Kanal 9), ''Sverige pussas och kramas'' (Kanal 5), ''I ditt ansikte'' (Kanal 5) and ''Raw Comedy'' (Kanal 5). In 2010 and 2011, Haag participated in the program ''Landet brunsås'' on SVT. A feature in the program where Haag buys a guinea pig from ''Blocket'' to eat it was withdrawn by SVT. In the autumn/winter of 2012, the collaboration continued with Lotta Lundgren from ''Landet brunsås'' as host and co-creator of the historical food program series ''Historieätarna'' on SVT. On the same theme, but with a focus more on children, the same duo made the 2015 Christmas calendar program '' Tusen år till julafton'' for SVT. The SVT miniseries ''Bye bye Sverige'' about the Swedish emigration 1850–1910, is also made in the same style as ''Historieätarna'' and premieres on 7 December 2017. In both 2011 and 2012, Erik and Martina Haag reached the final of the SVT program '' På spåret''. In 2012, they won the final over the couple Jenny and

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. In 2012–13, team Haag participated in '' På spåret''s champion season and went to the semi-finals. In 2020, Erik and Lotta Lundgren participated in Filip and Fredrik's ''Alla mot alla'', where they won the final against

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and Mikael Tornving. The team also won the season the following year by ''Alla mot alla''.

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