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Kristina Lugn is mourned in Culture Sweden.
Director Staffan Westerberg, 85, remembers a genius and friend with great humor.
“Our time at Brunnsgatan was the most fun I’ve ever had in my professional life,” he says.
Kristina Lugn took over as artistic director of Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra after Allan Edwall in 1997. She was involved in directing the theater until 2011 and during that trip she worked closely, among others, with Staffan Westerberg.
After the news of his death, he now mourns a good friend and brilliant playwright and poet.
– I just heard it from a good friend, it makes me very sad. It was the most fun moment of my professional life, the one I had with her in Brunnsgatan. Thanks to her, it was a fantastic moment, she says.
The director and screenwriter especially remember Lugn’s humor.
– That’s why it feels even sadder, there are no fun people left, says Westerberg.
“No one like Kristina”
He says he can barely describe his writing.
– She was a genius. It was fantastic, it can hardly be explained. An amazing person that I am proud to have met. That gap cannot be filled, there is no one like Kristina, says Westerberg.
Photo: PETRA HELLBERG
Staffan Westerberg and Kristina Lugn before the play “Our Bottom Button” at the Brunnsgatan Fyra Theater.
Academy member Per Wästberg exchanged letters with Kristina Lugn daily.
– He was a genius in the operation and a fan. Such a tremor without plan in language and reality. I will remember that I asked him every Thursday at the meeting what had happened, why disaster had happened. She had been robbed on a bridge in the old town, she lost her key and was trapped in an elevator. She was so distracted and forgot things. But she still managed somehow. It was like an inconsolable girl who moved out and put together a reality that became her property, she tells TT.
“No one could make me so warm at heart”
Kristina Lugn was also close to former Academy member Peter Englund and was, among other things, godmother to her daughter Turid.
“Dear Kristina, no other member could make me so happy, so excited, so confused, so inspired, so far, so bewildered, so lively, so warm in my heart. There is no one I quote to as often as you. An example: ‘When we are at the peak of our capacity, how do we get away from it?’ “He writes on Instagram in an emotional post.
Culture Minister Amanda Lind comments on the death of Kristina Lugn on Twitter.
“Reached the message that Kristina Lugn passed away. A great poet and playwright, with words that came. Incredibly sad to hear, my thoughts are with her,” she writes.
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven also presented his condolences.
“He was prominent in his writing, as a poet and playwright. I am thinking of his family and relatives,” the Prime Minister writes in a statement according to TT.
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