Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag
Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag (organisationsnummer 556206-4526) is a Swedish aktiebolag, registered with Bolagsverket on 30 September 1980, that runs Malmö’s municipal drama theatre. Bolagsverket’s register shows no deregistration date and no pending liquidation or restructuring for it. The register shows its current name from 8 April 2008. Under that name it also holds the secondary business name (särskilt företagsnamn) Malmö Dramatiska Teater, covering its activity at the Hippodrome theatre. The articles of association adopted by Malmö’s city council on 21 December 2023 give the company name as “Malmö Stadsteater AB”.
Under its registered objects clause, the company’s business is theatre with a main focus on dramatic theatre, performed chiefly by its own ensemble. It is run mainly on a not-for-profit basis but on business-like principles. The articles fix the share capital at SEK 5 million, divided into 5,000 shares. The theatre has a permanent acting ensemble and performs in Swedish, mainly on four stages in Malmö: the Hippodromen and Studion at Kalendegatan 12, Intiman on Östra Rönneholmsvägen, and Malmö Stadsteater Rosengård. Since January 2025 the company has run the Rosengård venue, formerly Drömmarnas hus. The theatre’s website puts its workforce at about 90 full-time equivalents, 60 of them permanent staff. It does not date that figure.
According to the City of Malmö’s 2025 annual report, Malmö Stadsteater AB had operating income of SEK 69 million in 2025 (SEK 61 million in 2024). Its result after financial items was a loss of SEK 55 million (2024: loss of SEK 54 million). At year-end 2025 it had total assets of SEK 102 million and equity of SEK 26 million. These are company-level figures. Ticket income was SEK 12 million in 2025. The theatre says its operations are funded mainly from public money, with grants from Malmö stad and Region Skåne. The city’s annual report records 22 productions and record audience numbers in 2025. The municipal lay-audit report on 2025, dated 20 March 2026, found that the company had been run appropriately and in line with its owner directives, and that its internal control was sufficient.
Name history matters for identity checks. The theatre’s own history says the original municipal Malmö Stadsteater was split in 1993 into three companies. The drama company, Malmö Dramatiska Teater, took back the Malmö Stadsteater name in 2008. Bolagsverket’s register also holds two other, closed entities with almost the same name. One is a Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag (556404-7107), registered on 9 October 1990 and deregistered on 15 February 1995 after liquidation. The other is the economic association Föreningen Malmö Stadsteater u p a (746000-7201), deregistered after liquidation on 21 December 1994. Neither is this company.
Sources
- Bolagsverket, bulk register file (extract of 19 October 2026), record 5562064526 and records 5564047107, 7460007201: https://vardefulla-datamangder.bolagsverket.se/bolagsverket/bolagsverket_bulkfil.zip (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö stad, Bolagsordning för Malmö Stadsteater AB (approved by kommunfullmäktige 21 Dec 2023, adopted at the AGM 30 May 2024): https://malmo.se/download/18.19427b0518f102069772743/1717142352768/Malm%C3%B6%20Stadsteater%20AB%20Bolagsordning.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö stad, Årsredovisning 2025 (revised version, April 2026), pp. 35, 85, 172, 174: https://malmo.se/download/18.7f765e1719e2074a3d61c2d/1780320071944/%C3%85rsredovisning%20Malm%C3%B6%20stad%202025%20-%20reviderad%20version%20inf%C3%B6r%20KS%20260401.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö stad, Stadsrevisionen, Årsrapport 2025 Malmö Stadsteater AB (2026-03-20): https://malmo.se/download/18.7f765e1719e2074a3d614b2/1779781075882/%C3%85RSRAPP%20LEKM%202025%20Malm%C3%B6%20Stadsteater%20AB%20TILLG.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö Stadsteater, Om Malmö Stadsteater: https://www.malmostadsteater.se/om-malmo-stadsteater (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö Stadsteater, Kontakt: https://www.malmostadsteater.se/kontakt (retrieved 2026-10-21)
Registration details
Officers
Directors and officers of Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag
Under its articles of association, Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag has a board (styrelse) of three to nine members and the same number of deputies or fewer. All of them are elected by Malmö’s city council (kommunfullmäktige), which also names the chair and vice-chair. The term runs from the AGM after a municipal election to the end of the AGM after the next one. The city council also appoints a lay auditor (lekmannarevisor) and a deputy. The company’s general meeting appoints the professional auditor.
Primary sources confirm these current roles:
- Petra Brylander: verkställande direktör (VD, managing director) and artistic director since 1 June 2024. The theatre announced the appointment on 12 December 2023. She had previously led the theatre in 2007–2016.
- Birgitta Eriksson: ordförande (chair). She signed the board’s statement on the 2025 financial year as chair on 23 February 2026.
- Angela Kingberg: ledamot (board member), elected by the city council on 24 April 2025 for a term to 31 December 2026.
- Göran Hellberg: lekmannarevisor (lay auditor), named in the lay-audit report for 2025.
We could not obtain the full current board list from a primary source. The city’s meeting portal lists the company but publishes no members for it. Bolagsverket’s company search is behind a bot challenge.
Recent officer changes
- 1 June 2024: Petra Brylander took office as VD and artistic director. Anette Zetterlund, the company’s finance director, was acting VD in spring 2024. Kitte Wagner, theatre director from 2016 to 2023, preceded them.
- 27 March 2025: the city council recorded the resignation of Jane Sophie Charlotte Olin (SD) as a board member.
- 24 April 2025: the city council elected Angela Kingberg (SD) as a board member in her place, to 31 December 2026.
Data availability
Partial. Bolagsverket’s free bulk file contains no officer data, and its company search is behind a bot challenge. Malmö stad publishes board elections in its city-council papers, but we did not find the decision electing the full board for the current term. Nationality is not disclosed in any of these sources. Contact details from the theatre’s staff list are deliberately left out.
Sources
- Malmö Stadsteater, Teaterchef (list of theatre directors 1944–present): https://www.malmostadsteater.se/teaterchef (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö Stadsteater, “Petra Brylander blir VD och konstnärlig ledare för Malmö Stadsteater” (2023-12-12): https://www.malmostadsteater.se/fordjupning/nyhet/petra-brylander-blir-vd-och-konstnarlig-ledare-malmo-stadsteater (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö stad, kommunfullmäktige, Styrelsens uttalande om verksamheten 2025 – Malmö Stadsteater (signed 2026-02-23; KF meeting 2026-06-17): https://motenmedborgarportal.malmo.se/welcome-sv/namnder-styrelser/kommunfullmaktige/mote-2026-06-17/agenda/styrelsens-uttalande-om-verksamheten-2025-malmo-stadsteaterpdf-15217?downloadMode=open (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö stad, kommunfullmäktige meeting 2025-03-27, resignations (avsägelser): https://motenmedborgarportal.malmo.se/committees/kommunfullmaktige/mote-2025-03-27 (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö stad, kommunfullmäktige meeting 2025-04-24, elections (valärenden): https://motenmedborgarportal.malmo.se/committees/kommunfullmaktige/mote-2025-04-24 (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö stad, Stadsrevisionen, Årsrapport 2025 Malmö Stadsteater AB (2026-03-20), section 3.2: https://malmo.se/download/18.7f765e1719e2074a3d614b2/1779781075882/%C3%85RSRAPP%20LEKM%202025%20Malm%C3%B6%20Stadsteater%20AB%20TILLG.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö stad, Bolagsordning för Malmö Stadsteater AB, §§ 11–13: https://malmo.se/download/18.19427b0518f102069772743/1717142352768/Malm%C3%B6%20Stadsteater%20AB%20Bolagsordning.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-21)
Group Structure
Group structure of Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag
Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag is part of the City of Malmö’s municipal group (kommunkoncern). Its immediate parent is Malmö Stadshus AB (556453-9608), which owns all of its shares. Malmö Stadshus AB is wholly owned by Malmö stad, the municipality (212000-1124), so the city is the ultimate owner and is a public body, not a company. Malmö Stadshus AB also wholly owns eight other municipal companies, which are sister companies of the theatre. Neither the City of Malmö’s 2025 annual report nor the provider record lists any subsidiary of the theatre company. The theatre’s 2025 loss after financial items (SEK 55 million) was matched by a group contribution of SEK 55 million received from Malmö Stadshus AB.
The group tree shown on this page has the right parent chain. It also places two joint municipal authorities, Räddningstjänsten Syd and VA SYD, under Malmö kommun. Both are kommunalförbund (local-government federations) owned together with other municipalities. Malmö’s share in each is a population- or tariff-based allocation, 62.49% and 65.18% in 2025. Neither is a subsidiary company. The tree’s dormant “Malmö Frihamns AB” (556013-9072) is correctly shown as held directly by the city, 100%. The tree leaves out the companies Malmö only part-owns: Copenhagen Malmö Port AB, Sydskånes avfallsaktiebolag (SYSAV), Sydvatten AB, Kommunassurans Syd Försäkrings AB and Medeon AB. We did not verify the individual MKB Fastighets AB subsidiaries in the tree.
Verified corporate relationships
| Entity | Country | Registration number | Relationship | Ownership | Status | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malmö Stadshus AB | Sweden | 556453-9608 | Immediate parent | 100% (all shares) | Registered, no deregistration | 31 Dec 2025 |
| Malmö stad (Malmö kommun), a municipality | Sweden | 212000-1124 | Ultimate owner (public body) | 100% indirect (calculated 100% × 100%) | Municipality | 31 Dec 2025 |
| MKB Fastighets Aktiebolag | Sweden | 556049-1432 | Sister company | 100% held by Malmö Stadshus AB | Registered | 31 Dec 2025 |
| Malmö Live Konserthus AB | Sweden | 556003-7482 | Sister company | 100% held by Malmö Stadshus AB | Registered | 31 Dec 2025 |
| Malmö kommuns parkeringsaktiebolag | Sweden | 556191-3095 | Sister company | 100% held by Malmö Stadshus AB | Registered | 31 Dec 2025 |
| Parkeringsövervakning i Malmö AB | Sweden | 559061-7956 | Sister company | 100% held by Malmö Stadshus AB | Registered | 31 Dec 2025 |
| Malmö Leasing AB | Sweden | 556116-8419 | Sister company | 100% held by Malmö Stadshus AB | Registered | 31 Dec 2025 |
| Boplats Syd AB | Sweden | 556462-1083 | Sister company | 100% held by Malmö Stadshus AB | Registered | 31 Dec 2025 |
| MINC i Sverige AB | Sweden | 556622-7780 | Sister company | 100% held by Malmö Stadshus AB | Registered | 31 Dec 2025 |
| Malmö Energi och Hållbarhet AB | Sweden | 556011-8506 | Sister company | 100% held by Malmö Stadshus AB | Registered | 31 Dec 2025 |
Recent structural changes
- 2006: the City of Malmö transferred responsibility for Malmö Opera and Skånes Dansteater to Region Skåne. This left the drama company as the one theatre wholly owned by the city. In 2008 it took back the name Malmö Stadsteater (theatre’s own history; register name date 8 April 2008).
- January 2025: the company took over the former Drömmarnas hus activity in Rosengård, after the assignment was put to the city council in October 2024. It runs the venue as Malmö Stadsteater Rosengård.
Data availability
Full for the parent chain and sister companies. The City of Malmö publishes its group structure, with ownership percentages, in its audited annual report. Registration numbers and register status come from Bolagsverket’s bulk file. The company has no LEI: GLEIF returns no record for 556206-4526, while a control query (729500-3789) returned a record.
Sources
- Malmö stad, Årsredovisning 2025 (revised version, April 2026), pp. 112, 128, 172, 174: https://malmo.se/download/18.7f765e1719e2074a3d61c2d/1780320071944/%C3%85rsredovisning%20Malm%C3%B6%20stad%202025%20-%20reviderad%20version%20inf%C3%B6r%20KS%20260401.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Bolagsverket, bulk register file (extract of 19 October 2026), records for each organisationsnummer above: https://vardefulla-datamangder.bolagsverket.se/bolagsverket/bolagsverket_bulkfil.zip (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö Stadsteater, Om Malmö Stadsteater (history; Rosengård): https://www.malmostadsteater.se/om-malmo-stadsteater (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- Malmö stad, kommunfullmäktige meeting 2024-10-31, assignment to Malmö Stadsteater AB on Malmö Stadsteater Rosengård: https://motenmedborgarportal.malmo.se/committees/kommunfullmaktige/mote-2024-10-31 (retrieved 2026-10-21)
- GLEIF API, query by registeredAs 556206-4526: https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records?filter[entity.registeredAs]=556206-4526 (retrieved 2026-10-21)
Data-provider feed — rows as supplied to Zavia for Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket), including entries the profile above does not cover. These rows are not a verbatim copy of the register: they have been found to duplicate the same person under different spellings and to keep a status of Active after an appointment ended. Where they disagree with the profile above, the profile is the checked version.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag do?
Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag (556206-4526) runs Malmö's municipal drama theatre, with its own acting ensemble on four stages in Malmö: Hippodromen, Studion, Intiman and Rosengård. Its registered objects are theatre with a main focus on dramatic theatre, run mainly on a not-for-profit basis.
Who owns Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag?
Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag has one shareholder, Malmö Stadshus AB (556453-9608), which owns all of its shares. Malmö Stadshus AB is in turn wholly owned by Malmö stad, according to the City of Malmö's 2025 annual report.
Who is Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
There is no natural-person beneficial owner. The ownership chain ends at a public body, Malmö stad (municipality, 212000-1124), which owns 100% indirectly through Malmö Stadshus AB.
What is Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag's company registration number?
Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag is registered with Bolagsverket under organisation number 556206-4526. It has no LEI.
Is Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag still an active company?
Yes. Bolagsverket's register shows no deregistration date and no pending liquidation or restructuring, and the City of Malmö's 2025 annual report and lay-audit report cover its 2025 operations.
When was Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag incorporated?
The company was registered with Bolagsverket on 30 September 1980. It has carried its current name since 8 April 2008, when the drama company took back the Malmö Stadsteater name.
What legal structure is Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag registered as?
Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag is a Swedish municipally owned aktiebolag (limited company). Its articles fix the share capital at SEK 5 million in 5,000 shares, and it is run mainly on a not-for-profit basis.
What is Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag's revenue?
According to the City of Malmö's 2025 annual report, the company had operating income of SEK 69 million in 2025 (2024: SEK 61 million) and a loss after financial items of SEK 55 million (2024: loss of SEK 54 million). These are company-level figures.
Is Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag listed on a stock exchange?
Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag is not listed on any stock exchange. It is a municipally owned aktiebolag.
Who are the officers/directors of Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag?
Petra Brylander has been managing director (VD) and artistic director since 1 June 2024, and Birgitta Eriksson signed as board chair on 23 February 2026. The board members and deputies are elected by Malmö's city council.
Does Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag have a parent company or subsidiaries?
The company is part of the City of Malmö's municipal group. Its immediate parent is Malmö Stadshus AB and its ultimate owner is Malmö stad. No subsidiaries are listed for it, and its sister companies include MKB Fastighets AB and Malmö Live Konserthus AB.
Is this the Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag that was liquidated in 1995?
No. Bolagsverket holds a different Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag (556404-7107), registered on 9 October 1990 and deregistered after liquidation on 15 February 1995, and an association, Föreningen Malmö Stadsteater u p a (746000-7201), deregistered in 1994. Neither is this company.
How does the City of Malmö steer the company?
The city council elects the board, chair and vice-chair, must approve any change to the articles, and issues binding owner directives; the current directives were adopted by the council on 26 February 2026 and by the owner on 28 May 2026.
How is the theatre's loss covered?
The 2025 loss after financial items of SEK 55 million was matched by a group contribution of SEK 55 million from its parent, Malmö Stadshus AB, according to the City of Malmö's 2025 annual report.
Are Räddningstjänsten Syd and VA SYD sister companies?
No. The group tree on this page places them under Malmö kommun, but both are local-government federations (kommunalförbund) owned with other municipalities, with Malmö's 2025 shares at 62.49% and 65.18%; neither is a subsidiary company.
Can Zavia monitor changes to Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag's ownership over time?
This profile reflects a point-in-time snapshot. Zavia's monitoring API can track changes to Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag's registered shareholders, officers, and group structure going forward, flagging updates as they're filed rather than requiring a manual recheck.
Can I access Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag's data through an API?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Sweden, so records like Malmö Stadsteater Aktiebolag's registration, shareholder, UBO, and group-structure data can be queried programmatically instead of viewed one page at a time.
Where does this company information come from, and how current is it?
Checked against the Bolagsverket bulk register file (19 October 2026), the City of Malmö's 2025 annual report, articles of association, owner directives, lay-audit report and city-council papers, and GLEIF on 21 October 2026.