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Being obsessed with women
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Robert Broberg at Allsång in Skansen.
Artist Robert Broberg is known for his colorful personality, rich language, and whimsical melodies.
But his eccentric facade concealed his depressions and his insatiable need for confirmation.
– I would probably like to classify him as a security addict and a sex addict, says Pia Huss in the new biography “Robert Broberg is looking for himself”.
The popular artist Robert Broberg He died five years ago, at the age of 75.
In the recently published “Robert Broberg Finds Himself”, Klas Gustafson describes his entire career. As a musician, artist and filmmaker.
People who managed to get close to him describe a restless person. He struggled with a constant search for new challenges, experiences, and adventures.
The search led Robert Broberg to invent himself as an artist over and over again during his career.
His fearlessness, stubbornness and good self-confidence took him to new places, both geographically and artistically. Musicians, artists, television executives, movie company executives, and record company executives – all were convinced by the energy of Robert Broberg. But he mixed hits with flat falls.
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He had a daughter together with Anastasia von Zweigbergk.
Obsessed with women
The constant search for Broberg also had a downside. The charismatic and energetic Robert Broberg was obsessed with women. He also conquered them with boldness, stubbornness, and seemingly good self-confidence.
The first marriage was with Eva Myhre. They were married from 1963 to 1975 and had two children together. Myhre realized early on that she was not the only woman in her husband’s life. She tried to learn to live with Broberg’s infidelity issues and her sometimes frantic search for confirmation and attention. In the end, it didn’t last anymore.
In the book she says:
“When I realized how affectionate women were to him, I said, ‘Do what you want, but don’t take them home to me or the children! I don’t want them here! You have to leave it on the stairs, to that we can continue to have a family life. ‘He was very weak for women and he probably wanted a harem, where he could move from room to room, bed to bed. “
Robert Broberg lived family life as it suited him best. He often didn’t fit in at all because he put his career first, says Eva Myhre.
“No one could resist him”
His friend Christoffer von Platen describes the same thing:
“He met women everywhere and there was no one to resist him, from what I have seen.”
Anastasia von Zweigbergk was living with Broberg in the early 1980s. They also have a daughter together.
“He would gather women and you had to get used to being around him. It was the confirmation he was looking for. It was immediately painful when looking for girls who might be suitable for an upcoming show, it was a bit choppy. When you saw someone who was tall and had the curly hair, then they knew, ‘That’s Robert’s girl!’ “.
Journalist Pia Huss had a relationship with Robert Broberg in the early 2000s. Huss describes Broberg’s needs for confirmation as insatiable:
“He got confirmation on stage, but when the lights went out, he looked for it elsewhere. I’d probably like to label him a safety and sex addict.”
Both Anastasia von Zweigbergk and Pia Huss also describe the flip side of creativity: mood swings and depression.
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Robert Broberg.
Mood and temperament
“Everyone who has been in a relationship with Robert, whether as a co-worker, friend or loving partner, has felt his mood and temperament,” says Anastasia von Zweigbergk.
When he was in the mood, he was invincible, he describes.
“It started spinning and suddenly the fireworks came, the word spin and the mischief.”
But when creativity didn’t want to let go, it was different.
“Robert was completely black on the inside, depressed and discouraged. He could almost get aggressive when he had to explain to me how horrible everything was,” says Pia Huss.
In 2004, Broberg made the performance “I like the situation” about loneliness and aging, two themes that seem to scare him. In the last years of his life, Robert Broberg suffered from a severe form of Parkinson’s. He formulated the fears in a journal entry in 2005:
“I don’t want the public to see that I have grown old and tired. I, who built all my work on the basis of being young and spinning!”
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