Bea Ernman – more than the sister of Greta Thunberg

Bea Ernman is on a small stage in Stockholm. She carries long glitter earrings, a skin -tight leopard dress, her voice smashes through the room. She sings French chansons, her own songs – texts that act on how girls have to protect their limits. Bea is 19, singer. And she is the sister of Greta Thunberg. An identity that she does not emphasize, but wants to get rid of.

Thunberg. The name mobilizes and polarizes. Beata Thunberg put him off like a dress that has become too tight. Today she calls herself Bea Ernman – after her mother, the opera singer Malena Ernman. But it is more than a new name. It is an attempt to free yourself.

While Greta recently made headlines on a sailboat in front of Gaza, Bea is doing a different tone: Greller, Doller, more personal.

Greta Thunberg: The symbol of the deprivation, the braids strict, the look serious, the words like reminders to the world. Bea Ernman: platinum blonde hair, network stockings, “Queen” brilli earrings. Your self -chosen stage: not for the climate, but for the ego.

Bea became known as a child. At 13 she sang in a Swedish TV show, later she was on stage with her mother in the musical “Forever Piaf”, embodied the young Édith Piaf. At the time, the press called her a “giant talent”.

But with every article and every report that made Greta more popular, Bea was further reduced to the little sister. The one who stood in the shade that bullying had had ADHD, which, from which it was expected to be implicitly expected, was to be followed in the fight against the climate crisis. She had to carry the disadvantages anyway: “The one who suffers from it is my sister,” said Greta once “The Sun”. Hass messages, threats – Bea also got that. Just because she was called Thunberg.

Today Bea makes it clear that this is not her fight. Your stage is the music, your message is different. Her songs – partly in Swedish, partly in French – act from girls who have to learn too early what it means to defend themselves. From men who cross borders. From an entertainment world that celebrates potential until they become uncomfortable. Your texts are not slogans, they are screams. “My voice came from pain,” she wrote.

On Instagram she stages herself confidently, with a pink lipstick and even pink rhinestone bikini. An appearance that should show: I am not adapted, I’m not quiet. You won’t find any information on Greta or her political actions. Bea focuses entirely on her music and an attempt to be seen. She wants to be her, not a second Greta.

Greta Thunberg embodies waiver in rubber boots, the fight against the great disaster and finally questionable Palestine positions. Bea Ernman propagates self -assertion in Stilettos, the departure from the patriarchy. While Greta has long since become a global projection surface, Bea steps into the microphone in small clubs to sing from the freedom that her last name never let her.