An old man sits in his wheelchair by the window and looks back on his life.
Staffan Westerberg mixes sadness and hope in his summer story in P1.
A housefly can live up to 28 days.
Now it buzzes in a window in the villa in Uppsala where Staffan Westerberg, the actor, director, screenwriter, artist of a thousand, has moved.
He has left the runner-up in Vasastan (in Stockholm, the listener is expected to understand) after the fog came like “a multi-thousand without feet”.
He doesn’t like it, he doesn’t like death.
This Staffan Westerberg. He was the one who in the 70s played with dolls in “Vilse i pannkakan”.
As a child, I thought it was a boring program. As an adult, I find it much sadder to have listened to generations of moderates who have whined that “Lost in the Pan” was a far-left attempt at indoctrination that ruined their childhood.
Our narrator takes us from growing up and being a student in Luleå, as soon as it is fixed it leads straight to Stockholm.
Westerberg is young and unknown and fearless and seeks out the famous author Lars Forsell to perform one of his plays with the small dolls he has made.
Trout is enjoyed. So do other celebrities he comes across in life. Directors Ingmar Bergman and Lasse Pöysti, Allan Edwall, Kristina Lugn.
Today’s summer talkers go home, drink to their thirst at the Norrbottenteatern, travel to Paris and seek out the rough neighborhoods, perhaps to find a truck driver to spend a night of love with.
Nowadays he lives together with Hans. They met late in life, which does not prevent them from being together for a long time.
They are not alone. In the villa in Uppsala, they receive help from the home service staff who come from all countries of the world.
Westerberg says that a curator at the museum in Eskilstuna came to visit the secondary school in Vasastan and took the paintings, dolls and wooden figures with him for a permanent exhibition. Nowadays Storpotäten lives behind a stand, as if it were the royal jewels.
Staffan Westerberg now has to wait a long time in his wheelchair by the window. At Christmas, summer, home care, death.
It is a simple story, simple but wise.
And the fly continues to buzz.
FACT Summer with Staffan Westerberg
Age: 89
Living: Uppsala
Profession: Actor
Current: Forever current and out of date
Previous participation in Sommar: summer speaker 1995.
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“The housefly on my window buzzes a little.”
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“It’s called togetherness, almost as nice as love.”
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Besame Mucho – Andrea Bocelli
A Frenchman in Stockholm – Lars Forssell
Open the Eyes of my heart – Christopher Duffley
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