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CULTURAL CHRONICLE. Kristina Lugn was the epitome of a cultural personality.
I grew up in the country in the 1980s and 1990s. Occasionally on television there was a writer with long red hair who spoke slowly and monotonously. She was strange, but calm. A genius, obviously, as well as a woman. Kristina Lugn he was the only poet everyone knew, even in Hörby. She was so cool.
I borrowed book bags from the school library, perhaps not yet Kristina Lugn.
But I think I am now grateful that she was able to be a public figure, a celebrity, even beyond her own authorship.
She often returned to how angry viewers got mad at her during the 1987 show “Unpredictable,” a talk show she directed Jörn Donner and Bert Karlsson. People were angry that she spoke so silly and lofty. Many have tried to parody Kristina Lugn, but no one became more fun than she, without pretending to be anyone else.
I see a clip of “Unpredictable” on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8xgFMbehs
“Would you like a psychotic breakthrough?” she asks Harry schein, who is a guest. He laughs.
“I think it might be good for you to have a psychosis, but then you have to have someone to go with you,” Lugn continues, and the smile on Schein, otherwise self-confidence becomes somewhat strained.
His unmistakable voice, black humor, absurd jumps. In a much more homogeneous and tight Sweden than today, Kristina Lugn acted like a valve. Yes, many were angry, but she also became popular, a status that few poets and playwrights achieve.
In the promised land of preciousness, the right to resist was reserved.
The poetry of calm comforted and fun. But his place in public space should not be underestimated. Lugn participated in several television programs, in recent years the eponymous series “Kristina Lugn’s book circle”. And the lead on his show on P1’s “Seriously Speaking” is pure radio magic.
Integrity was always felt at 100 percent.
During his academic career, he was also faithful to the less popular line. When Lugn sent the flock of journalists out of the Exchange with a cigarette in his hand, shouting “I smoke, you will die,” after all, she became the crisis. comic relief. In the promised land of preciousness, the right to resist was reserved.
“Looking for Familiarity with the Older Trained Lords” of 1983, finally became one of the first collections of poems that I remember reading. Especially the poem about sad Liselott and her failed mother was understandable, playful, and totally transparent.
“Pretty close to heaven
in a house that is quite gray
In a room with nice wallpaper
Little Liselott lives
And her angry mother
actually lives there too
she stands by the stove and smokes
and I wonder where Liselott is “
Maybe it was a school librarian, just like Kristina Lugn was once at Upplands Väsby, who provided me with the book.
“I did not let the children decide. I thought it was very important that children couldn’t decide, ”Lugn said in a report on Expressen’s cultural page in 2011, where he returned to his old library. In the interview, she talks about reading and education as a public right. At the same time, she reluctantly moves 24 copies of Margit Sandemos romantic suite “The Story of the Ice People” who thought it was lousy.
The poetry remains, but I will miss Kristina Lugn among the many Swedish cultural personalities who seem increasingly groomed with each passing day.
Karin Olsson is Director of Culture at Expressen.
