How could the headlines have sounded, if Ekstra grand old man himself had had to formulate them. A combination of drama and self-awareness.
Of course, could Pedro not go quietly away. His death was dramatic, recounts his widow, ex. overfysioterapeut Birthe-Marie: Pedro got under a dinner in the home in Østerbro, a piece of meat in the trachea. He fell down and could not breathe. Neither diners or they called the paramedics and doctors could revive him.
Pedro, who was officially called Peder Christoffersen, was 78 years of age. Most of them he put in the Extra Magazine in which he with his quirky and humorous pen did everything in this world to his subject.
Pedro was born There, grew up in the Otter and took klassisksproglig high school, which in its own eyes, raised him above the more regular counterparts. His journalistic education he received at the Danish national socialist leaflets: In the 13 years rushed he through the New age, the daily Newspaper the island of Funen, Jutland Current and the Democrat, until his festive disposition, in 1974, was brought to Ekstra Bladet.
Pedro’s big trivia came to be useful to him, since he is from 1997 began to publish books, mainly of historical nature. The first was the immodest title of ’the World According to Pedro’. In 2002, there was ‘Pedro’s cookbook’ with his favorite hverdagsretter from the 50’s to the Danish kitchen.
In 2005, mourned he in the book ‘Denmark’s worst villains’ the Danish lack of genuine gangsters. The year after came his most important work, ‘Denmark In the 20. century’. Pedro’s last bogleverance was ‘History’ from 2009, which contains his very own taksering of the kingdom’s people and events.
Pedro knitted his own sweaters. Photo: Thomas Wilmann/Ritzau Scanpix
beside that, he served in a number of years in An copenhagen the board of directors and as chairman of the Ekstra Medarbejderforening. Collective bargaining was now not his strong side. The meager results, however, were each time followed up by his indomitable rallying cry for employers: But next time ..!
Together with the reporter Line Baun Danielsen was Pedro, a popular figure in the tv programme ‘Mother’s hammer’, where the nation was taught about its shortcomings, while the verdenskloge man sat and knitted in the studio. There was not a gimmick. On the contrary, he composed continuously the most complicated sweaters with Latin quotes.
Pedro magnanimous creature came to expression when he in the then-bustling canteen for a late evening smoke into a wrestling match with a herculean journalist. Colleague’s thumb slipped into the Pedros one eye, which he lost. But Pedro bar does not nag. It was a purely accidental in festive layers, he explained, and then continued the friendship between the two wrestlers – now in three eyes.
recent years have shaped the less festive for Pedro, which was hit by a series of depressions. Electroshock helped him, however, and Birthe – Marie tells that his last year’s time on earth was happy.
He will be missed by three children, four grandchildren, a great-grandchild, as well as a lot of former colleagues in the Extra Leaf.
Pedro has knitted its last mask. Additional paper’s-the legend is here no more.
Of the size it was Pedro not one of the greatest, but he was very much in its many years on ‘the magazine’. Pedro was a true enfant terrible. Completely her own. Storrygende, strikkende and very talkative. When Pedro met at work, so that was the first ‘duty’ is always a trip around the editor-in-chief offices.
‘Now there are rounds’ proclaimed Pedro jauntily, sat to the right of the first editor-in-chief’s office, the numbing don’t care if you were busy or the other for Pedro trivial excuses. So as the new editor-in-chief back in 2001 there was no other way but to toe the line. And wait until Pedro was ready to move on to the next office.
It was some of the funniest and strangest of the half and full hours in my life. Glory be to Pedro’s memory, and I wonder if he sits up there in his heaven and speaks on about his beloved ‘leaf’
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