Erna Solberg Anne Aasheim: – She was energetic, positive and curious about life – VG

Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) worked closely with Anne Aasheim Bergen Young Conservatives when they were both in early 20s.

earlier Dagbladet-editor and director of the Arts Council Anne Aasheim died Wednesday morning.

Aasheim died at Hospice Lovisenberg in Oslo on Wednesday morning, after she was diagnosed with lung cancer in September.

Erik Aasheim, Anne Aasheim brother, says that the end was just as Anne had hoped.

– logistics champion to the last. She passed away quietly and peacefully into the wonderful Hospice Lovisenberg this morning, while her beloved Mette hugged her. Finer could not be. And she kept humor and generosity to the last moment. She will be deeply deeply missed, said Erik Aasheim VG earlier Wednesday.

Read portrait interviewed in VG Weekend: Anne Aasheim (53) is preparing for the end.

Girls, Girls, Young Right

Prime Minister Erna Solberg describes the news of Anne Aasheim demise as very sad.

19 years old was Erna Solberg leads in Bergen Young Right. Meanwhile, Anne Aasheim organization secretary in Bergen and Hordaland Young Conservatives.

The Prime Minister talks about a close and intensive friendship in the one and a half years Aasheim had the job.

– We call it her right-deviant years, for it is not something she has acknowledged so often afterwards. But in such roles one works closely. This was while we were in the early 20s, with all that entailed the weekends, parties and social thing, says Solberg told VG.

Aasheim came from Telemark Young Conservatives, and was constantly aware that she wanted to become a journalist. Solberg says she already then noticed her excellent writing skills.

In GRIEF: Prime Minister Erna Solberg.

Photo: JAN PETTER LYNAU

– She was very nice, positive, energetic and curious about life. She perceived never any task impossible. She had a strong stand on-determination, and we had a lot of fun together, says Solberg.

reminisce about mutual friends

The two have not met each other than in official contexts in recent years, but Solberg said she texted with Aasheim after it became known that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer that has spread.

– I met her at an event last year. When we met, we talked about how things are going with old acquaintances, says Solberg.

The premier who will stand again after Anne Aasheim, is that she opened up several female media executives, said the prime minister.

– She was one of the top female media leaders, and paved the way for many after him. She has had the optimism and the will not to be limited. It has allowed more women have dared to take the job, says Solberg.

Deserve thanks

Anne Aasheim spoke very openly about their thoughts around being incurable sick of lung cancer, in an interview with VG weekend earlier this year.

today dishes Cancer Society a deep thanks to Aasheim, for openness she showed.

– That so known and respected person like Anne Aasheim came forward as lung cancer patient meant a lot. Lung cancer is unfortunately one of the cancers that are linked most shame and taboos. She put into words with self-loathing because the disease can be self-inflicted. About the feeling of weakness and character failure because they smoke. She proved in many ways that she stood for the opposite. It should be tough to show weakness. She could silenced so many do, but she chose to be a voice. There she deserves a big thanks and deep respect for, says Secretary General of the Cancer Society, Anne Lise Ryel, VG.

GRATEFUL: Anne Lise Ryel, secretary general of the Cancer Society.

Photo: Jan Petter Lynau

At the VG interview said Aasheim that “if I can contribute to a single cancer patient feel a little less self-loathing, I’ve accomplished something. It is not what you need in life last phase. “

– I’m quite sure that she has helped to raise not just one, but many, lung cancer victims who feel the same way, says Ryel.

Message from NRK colleagues

Prime Minister Erna Solberg was one of the first to put their memories of Aasheim on microblogging service Twitter when the news of the former Dagbladet-editor’s demise became known on Wednesday afternoon.

It also made a number of Aasheim former colleagues in NRK. Aasheim had several leadership roles in NRK from 1988.

Mint ANNE AASHEIM: Noman Mubashir, presenter NRK.

Photo: FRODE HANSEN

– Rest in peace dear Anne Aasheim, writes former colleague, Noman Mubashir.

– A tough and real boss and colleague has passed away much too early. Anne Aasheim will be missed, writes presenter Jon Gelius.

– Very sad news about great lady and brilliant boss, writes Purple Sølhusvik, reportage manager at NRK.

– Brilliant and inspiring

Aasheim went from NRK to Dagbladet, where she became editor in chief in 2006.

– Terrible sad that Anne Aasheim died untimely. A brilliant and inspiring boss, a fun and grabbed lady who remembered with a smile, writes former political editor of Dagbladet, Marie Simonsen on Twitter.

Anne Aasheim was until his demise director of the Arts Council.

– It is with great sadness that we have received the message that Anne Aasheim is dead. She was an extraordinarily capable leader with a big heart for all its employees, said acting director of the Arts Council, Vibeke Mohr said in a statement.