Cohen died shortly after the Norwegian my ex: – They died in a way together. It … – Bergens Tidende

Leonard Cohen was a likes female a man. In spite of that, there was a relationship that stood out. The relationship to the Norwegian Marianne Ihlen.

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81-year-old Marianne Ihlen dead for over three months ago. On his deathbed she got a letter from Leonard Cohen, who had been her boyfriend in the 60′s. The artist died on Monday, 82-year-old.

the News was first known Friday this week.

Filmmaker Jan Christian Mollestad restored the letter as he remembered it to CBS News when Ihlen died:

“Yes, Marianne, we have now come to the point that we are becoming so old that our bodies are falling apart, and I think I follow you very soon. You should know that I’m so close behind you that if you reach out, then I believe you can now mine.”

Author Petter Mejlænder believe that Cohen and Ihlen did not let go of the old love and the deep respect for each other, even if they had not so much contact after they went from each other, writes the newspaper Aftenposten.

It came clearly into view when she was near death. He sent a great greeting through Jan Christien Mollestad, which she got with them.

They died in a way together. It is so incredibly beautiful to think about now. Thus this becomes a kind of legend, a myth. Imagine that it is possible to end your life in such a beautiful way, ” says Mejlænder.

– Triangle characterised the environment

He wrote ten years ago a case in Aftenposten about the drama that unfolded on the Greek island of Hydra at the end of the 50s.

Ihlen moved namely there in 1957 with her then boyfriend, the writer Axel Jensen. One year after they got married in Athens, and they had a son together.

Later separated the himself, and Ihlen moved together with Cohen, who was also Jensen’s friend. They lived for several years together on the Greek island.

the Triangle between Axel, Leonard and Marianne characterized the whole of the bohemian and still when this happened. It became a kind of mythology around it. I have come into this drama through the Axel and Marianne, and it has affected me and several others, ” says Mejlænder.

He has developed a close familiarity with both Jensen and Ihlen. In 2002, he wrote a biography of Axel Jensen.

Through them I have experienced Cohens charisma and personality, which obviously grabbed both two. They experienced him as a rare power from the start, that he was a good, sensitive and empathetic human being, ” he says.

Many women

at the same time do not have the relationship the three in between, as well as both the Cohens and Jensen’s relationship to other ladies, have been completely uncomplicated.

As the artist had Cohen many female fans. In his life there were also many women.

“the Biography is bursting with ladies and some ladies. Some of the women he has clung to for years, he just held in his arms a single night. But common for them all is that he has either abandoned them or been abandoned by them.”

As described in the biography “Leonard Cohen – a tolerated biography” in a review that was in the Newspaper in 2008.

This was of course painful for Marianne. She suffered a lot because of both Axel and Leonard. But Leonard played with more open cards, that he had to follow the deep impulses in order to realize herself as an artist. It meant that she got a respect, at the same time she felt despair. Therefore also lasted the love between the two, believe Mejlænder.

– Ahead of their time

That Cohen attracted unusually many female fans he explains in the following way:

– It’s really banal. He was very responsive. He stopped and looked at the women as if they were the entire people in a completely different way than men did at the time. Other men were on after more kvinnfolk, while Leonard remained to women with respect and empathy. He was ahead of his time, and was a hederligere man than many others, he believes.

– It is no wonder that women flocked around him. All women are longing for the noble gentleman, he adds.

the Women gave out the Cohen-disc

In Norway, the participating artists Kirsten Bråten Berg, Claudia Scott, Kari Bremnes and Sidsel Endresen on the plate Had the moon a sister – Cohen in Norwegian. It was released in 1993.

– Many people like his music, and he is especially popular in Norway. It must be something with his lyrics that appeals to us women. That he understands us, thinks Claudia Scott, who at the same time admits that she initially had a strong relationship with him before she worked with the disc.

– But I think he writes very sensitively. Way and vinklingen on what he writes appeals to me in any case.

Studied texts

Also Kirsten Bråten Berg has noticed the way Cohen put it on.

She tells that she as a musician, first and foremost, listening to the melodies, but it was impossible for her to avoid the lyrics when she hears of Cohen.

– They are wonderful, ” she says.

Nevertheless, Ihlen probably among those who have analyzed the texts to the artist the most.

Cohen wrote the song “So long, Marianne” about her. Moreover, the dedicated he diktboken “Flowers for Hitler” from 1964 to her.

– Each time it came out a disc from the Leonard Cohen light both Axel and Marianne for the hidden message. They analysed the lyrics and played the discs over and over again, ” says Mejlænder.