Ingeborg Senneset is the Stiklestad profile 2025
We are proud to announce that Ingeborg Senneset is this year's Stiklestad profile. At the same time, we announce that the theme for the 2025 Olsok Days is BORDERS.
This year's Stiklestad profile is Ingeborg Senneset. Over the years, she has distinguished herself as a prominent public debater, with a commitment that embraces both personal stories and major social issues.
Ingeborg Senneset is an influencer, speaker, author and trained nurse. She has been open about a life with anorexia and OCD, as well as three years as a psychiatric patient and has published the bestsellers "Anorectic" (2017) and "Dictionary for Survival" (2022). For many, she is best known for debates on topics such as vaccine resistance, monarchy, anti-Semitism, antibiotic resistance, alternative medicine and freedom of expression.
Ingeborg Senneset works as a journalist on a daily basis, and is often on TV, radio and podcasts. Her own channels reach several hundred thousand followers and are used daily for public education and debate. She is also a volunteer at Norsk Pen.
Senneset has received a number of awards for his work, including the Vixen Award of the Year (2020), NTB's Language Award (2021), Media Name of the Year (2021), the Mensa Award (2021) and the Fredrikke Award (2024).
Director of the Museums of Heritage Heidi Anett Øvergård Beistad says the following about Ingeborg Senneset as a Stiklestad profile:
“We are extremely proud that Ingeborg Senneset has accepted to be Stiklestad profile in 2025. As a public debater, she has impressed for many years with her knowledge-based, critical analyses and her great communication skills. By using an unusually wide range of media platforms, she has also been able to reach a very diverse audience. In this way, she has both expanded the scope of public debate and inspired different voices to get involved, both invaluable contributions to a vibrant democracy.”
Photo: Per-Åge Eriksen
Ingeborg Senneset herself says the following about her role as Stiklestad profile:
"A few days ago I stood in front of a few hundred VGS students and talked about my own background and the importance of caring about something bigger than yourself. You can be insecure about a lot of things, while at the same time being confident in what you believe in and fight for.
Using your voice can cost, sometimes more than is acceptable. But what has value also has a cost. The price we pay as a society if only those who speak for their own benefit speak loudly, while those who care about others prefer to remain silent – it is much higher. That a Flåbygg who is triggered by injustice and steeped in denial of facts, is allowed to be this year's Stiklestad profile is both strange and great.
I hope the topic of boundaries is discussed in several tracks. It can be personal boundaries, like putting your foot down for what others do to or with you. It can be where your limit for tolerating disagreement or difference is. Borders between countries, which are clear on a map, but insignificant when it comes to the spread of disinformation, propaganda, viruses or bacteria. And so on.
I'm looking forward to coming home to Trøndelag and listening to talented people."
This year's Olsokdager takes place from July 24th to 29th. The public will meet the Stiklestad profile through a conversation program on July 25th.
The play about Saint Olav will be played on July 25th, 26th, 27th and 29th.
Theme for the 2025 Olympic Games: BORDERS
Every year a theme is chosen for the festival. The theme for the 2025 Olsokdagene is BORDERS. The theme was chosen for several reasons. The main reason is the Stiklestad National Cultural Center and the Arven Museums' work with the National Jubilee 2030. A central part of the anniversary work is a jubilee relay towards 2030 that involves the entire country and where each year has its own theme. The theme for 2025 is MIGRATION AND IDENTITY, chosen based on the national emigrant jubilee that marks 200 years since the first Norwegian emigrants left for the United States. BORDERS is our interpretation of this. In addition, the theme is inspired by a time when the world is simultaneously perceived as both more borderless and more border-oriented, more global and more nationalistic, where discussions about community and exclusion are becoming an increasingly important part of the public discourse and not least: where more and more people are fleeing, across borders, from war, climate change and political regimes. During the 2025 Olympic Days, we will therefore approach BORDERS in the past, present and future, and in everything from major societal issues to intimate and personal issues.