Anders Koppel: Flemming Quist Møller, No one like him
Anders Koppel pays tribute to his colleague and good friend for many years, Flemming Quist Møller, who passed away on Monday

Author and musician Flemming Quist Møller has died at the age of 79.

The popular artist fell over at the breakfast table with a blood clot in his heart on Monday.

The author’s son, Carl Quist-Møller, was able to confirm this to TV 2 Lorry.

– He fell into the house in Taarbæk, where he grew up and has also lived the last years of his life. He was placed in a coma at Rigshospitalet. Here we have been sitting around him for a week, says Carl Quist-Møller to the media.

Commemorative words
For many years, Flemming Quist Møller was part of the band Bazaar together with Peter Bastian, Anders Koppel and Mehmet Ozan.

Anders Koppel is clearly moved by his friend’s death when Ekstra Bladet reaches out to him on Monday night.

– It’s a big part of my life that’s gone with Flemming’s life, that’s clear. We have been playing together for 37 years, he says and continues:

– I will most remember him for his unconventional approach to everything. Flemming had a very strong eye for the authentic and honest. He was not bound by norms – on the contrary, if he saw a norm where something had to be done in a certain way, then he fled or tried to break it to pieces.

According to the Danish musician and composer, the following words are apt for Flemming Quist Møller: Original, knowledgeable, uncompromising and humorous.

The picture shows the band Bazaar. Photo: Polfoto / Lars Hansen
The picture shows the band Bazaar. Photo: Polfoto / Lars Hansen

Anecdote
Anders Koppel especially remembers an episode with his longtime friend who has left his mark on his memory. As for example when Flemming was awarded an Honorary Bodil.

– Flemming just sat out in the locker room throughout the show and talked to the locker room ladies. When they finally got him to go up on stage to receive the Honorary Bodil, he came to smash the statuette’s head, and then he gifted it away to another person, with whom he shared a taxi on the way home, because he thought this person could use it for something artistic, says Anders Koppel followed by a laugh.

It’s Flemming in a nutshell, explains Anders Koppel, who adds that Flemming’s work with music and film meant much more to him than the honors he was awarded in the form of awards.

Thank you for good memories
Flemming Quist Møller was behind the children’s books ‘Cykelmyggen Egon’, ‘Benny’s bathtub’ and ‘The jungle animal Hugo’.

He also wrote the script for ‘The Cursed Years 2’, which only managed to see finished. The film will premiere on April 20.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has also commented on Flemming Quist Møller’s death. In a post on Instagram, she writes that we have lost one of the most beautiful voices in children’s literature in Denmark.

By Editor

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