Tommy Körberg about Kristina Lugn: "She was punk"

The news of Kristina Lugn's departure in early May shook the culture of Sweden.

Therefore, on Thursday evening, Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra, where Lugn previously worked as artistic leader, will host a memorial evening in Kristina Lugn's honor.

One of the performers is the artist Tommy Körberg, who was also a friend of Kristina Lugn. They met when Lugn wrote lyrics for Benny Andersson's Orchestra and the duet Now I feel much better as Körberg and artist Helen Sjöholm sang together.

- Missing after her is big. This gentle insanity she held, I miss it tremendously, says Tommy Körberg to the Culture News.

Tommy Körberg's relationship with Lugn's poetry is quite simple:

- She was punk. In the duet Now I feel a lot better she writes "Come and go are you kind in my nice roundabout", and then I asked her: Kristina, what do you mean by the roundabout? And she said, "Don't you know? It is love, after all. I just love it.

As a prominent poet, playwright, former artistic director of Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm and later a member of chair number 14 in the Swedish Academy, Kristina Lugn came to leave significant traces in Swedish cultural life.

- She was one of the sharpest copywriters Sweden has. I will remember her with a happy mind, says Tommy Körberg.