Dansk Kultur (Danish Culture) Flashcards
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) er også blevet kaldt ’dansk litteraturs far. Han lagde grunden til dansk teater med komedier som ’Jeppe på Bjerget’. Og han skrev ’Epistler’ – det vil sige korte prosatekster – om oplysningstidens ideer: tolerance, god undervisning, ligeret mellem mænd og kvinder.
Holberg blev berømt i Europa med romanen ’Niels Klims underjordiske rejse’ (1741), hvor han, ligesom i Epistlerne, udbreder sine filosofiske ideer.
Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) has also been called ‘Danish’ father of literature. He laid the foundation for Danish theater with comedies such as ‘Jeppe på Bjerget’. And he wrote ‘Epistles’ - that is, short prose texts - about the ideas of the Enlightenment: tolerance, good teaching, ligated between men and women.
Holberg became famous in Europe with the novel ‘Niels Klim’s Underground Journey’ (1741), where he, like in the Epistles, spreads his philosophical ideas.
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen (1805-1875) var en dansk forfatter, der
blev verdensberømt for sine eventyr. H.C. Andersen
blev født i Odense som søn af en fattig skomager.
Han flyttede til København, da han var 14 år.
Han skrev bl.a. romaner, digte og eventyr. H.C. Andersens eventyr er oversat til ca. 125 sprog. Blandt hans mest kendte eventyr er ’Grantræet’ og ’Den Grimme Ælling’.
Disse eventyr viser Andersens særlige evne til at udstyre dyr og planter med menneskelige stemmer og
med dyr og planter at fortælle om menneskers fejl og
drømme.
H.C. Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author who
became world famous for his adventures. H.C. Andersen
was born in Odense as the son of a poor shoemaker.
He moved to Copenhagen when he was 14 years old.
Among other things, he wrote novels, poems and fairy tales. H.C. Andersen’s fairy tales have been translated into approx. 125 languages. Among his most famous fairy tales are ‘The Fir Tree’ and ‘The Ugly Duckling’.
These fairy tales show Andersen’s special ability to equip animals and plants with human voices and
with animals and plants to tell about human error and
dream.
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) var en dansk filosof,
hvis tanker om menneskets eksistens har påvirket folk
i mange lande helt op til i dag.
Han understregede menneskers ret og pligt til at træffe valg om deres eget liv. Hvor vigtigt valget er for ham, kan man høre på en af hans kendteste titler, ’Enten-eller’ (1843).
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher,
whose thoughts on human existence have influenced people
in many countries right up to the present day.
He emphasized the right and duty of human beings to make choices about their own lives. How important the choice is to him can be heard in one of his most famous titles, ‘Either-or’ (1843).
P.S. Krøyer
P.S. Krøyer (1851-1909) var en dansk kunstmaler. P.S.
Krøyer blev født i Stavanger i Norge, men han boede
det meste af sit liv i Danmark. Han blev uddannet på
Kunstakademiet i København.
I 1880’erne og 1890’erne var han med i en gruppe af kunstnere, som boede i Skagen i Nordjylland for at arbejde. De malerier, som han malede i Skagen, er meget berømte i Danmark, og en række af dem kan ses på Skagens Museum.
P.S. Krøyer (1851-1909) was a Danish painter. P.S.
Krøyer was born in Stavanger, Norway, but he lived
most of his life in Denmark. He was educated on
The Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
In the 1880s and 1890s, he was part of a group of artists who lived in Skagen in North Jutland to work. The paintings he painted in Skagen are very famous in Denmark, and a number of them can be seen at Skagen’s Museum.
Carl Nielsen
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) var en dansk komponist. Med korværker og symfonier bidrog han til den internationale koncertsalskultur. Fx symfonien ’Det uudslukkelige’ (1916).
Han har også komponeret musik til danske digte, der
gjorde dem til vidt udbredte sange som ’Jens Vejmand’,
’Solen er så rød, mor’, ’Den danske sang er en ung blond pige’.
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) was a Danish composer. With choral works and symphonies he contributed to the international concert hall culture. For example, the symphony ‘The Inextinguishable’ (1916).
He has also composed music for Danish poems there
made them widespread songs like ‘Jens Vejmand’,
‘The sun is so red, mother’, ‘The Danish song is a young blonde girl’.
Karen Blixen
Karen Blixen (1885-1962) var en dansk forfatter. Karen Blixen ejede og bestyrede i mange år en kaffefarm i Kenya. Hendes oplevelser på farmen blev grundlag for hendes bog ’Den afrikanske farm’, som hun skrev i 1937, efter at farmen var solgt, og hun vendt tilbage til Danmark.
’Den afrikanske farm’ er også blevet filmatiseret i USA.
Karen Blixen er endnu mere kendt for en særlig slags historiske noveller, som man kan finde i for eksempel ’Syv fantastiske fortællinger’ (1935).
Karen Blixen (1885-1962) was a Danish author. Karen Blixen owned and managed a coffee farm in Kenya for many years. Her experiences on the farm became the basis for her book ‘The African Farm’, which she wrote in 1937, after the farm was sold and she returned to Denmark.
‘The African Farm’ has also been filmed in the United States.
Karen Blixen is even better known for a special kind of historical short story, which can be found in, for example, ‘Seven Fantastic Tales’ (1935).
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) var en dansk arkitekt, der er
kendt for ’funktionalisme’, det vil sige en udformning af
huse og møbler, der lægger vægt på hvad de skal bruges til. Han har tegnet Danmarks Nationalbank i København.
Blandt hans møbler er det mest udbredte ’7-eren’, en
hverdagsstol fremstillet af krydsfinér og metal. Og den
eksklusive lænestol opkaldt efter det, den ligner: ’Ægget’.
Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) was a Danish architect who is known for ‘functionalism’, that is, a design of houses and furniture that emphasize what they are to be used for. He has signed Danmarks Nationalbank in Copenhagen.
Among his furniture, the most common is the ‘7’, one
everyday chair made of plywood and metal. And the
exclusive armchair named after what it looks like: ‘The Egg’.
Thomas Vinterberg
Thomas Vinterberg (født 1969) er en dansk filminstruktør. Blandt andet har han lavet filmen ’Druk’ (2020), som vandt en Oscar i 2021. I ’Druk’ forsøger fire gymnasielæ- rere at gøre deres liv mere spændende ved at drikke, så de har alkohol i blodet hele dagen.
Det går godt i begyndelsen, men efterhånden kommer det ud af kontrol og ender i en tragisk ulykke.
Mange af Thomas Vinterbergs film fortæller historier om dilemmaer i familien.
Mellem de voksne og mellem forældre og børn. Det kan være om seksuelt misbrug, ’Festen’ (1998), om falske beskyldninger, ’Jagten’ (2012) eller om bristede håb, ’Kollektivet’ (2016).
Thomas Vinterberg (born 1969) is a Danish film director. Among other things, he has made the film ‘Druk’ (2020), which won an Oscar in 2021. In ‘Druk’, four high school teachers try to make their lives more exciting by drinking so that they have alcohol in their blood all day.
It goes well in the beginning, but eventually it gets out of control and ends in a tragic accident.
Many of Thomas Vinterberg’s films tell stories of dilemmas in the family.
Between the adults and between parents and children. It can be about sexual abuse, ‘The Party’ (1998), about false accusations, ‘The Hunt’ (2012) or about shattered hopes, ‘The Collective’ (2016).
Susanne Bier
En anden dansk filminstruktør Susanne Bier (født 1960)
har også vundet en Oscar for ’Hævnen’ (2010), som sætter fokus på i hvilke situationer i livet, det er henholdsvis rigtigt og forkert at hævne sig på andre.
Another Danish film director Susanne Bier (born 1960)
has also won an Oscar for ‘Revenge’ (2010), which focuses on the situations in life in which it is right and wrong to take revenge on others, respectively.
Eurovision Song Contest (Det Europæiske Melodi Grand Prix)
Danmark har vundet Eurovision Song Contest (Det Europæiske Melodi Grand Prix) tre gange.
Første gang var i 1963 med ’Dansevise’, som blev fremført af Grethe Ingmann (1938-90) og Jørgen Ingmann (1925-2015).
Anden gang i år 2000 med ’Smuk som et stjerneskud/Fly on the Wings of Love’, skrevet og fremført af duoen Brødrene Olsen, der består af Jørgen Olsen (født 1950) og Niels Olsen (født 1954).
Tredje gang var i 2013 med ’Only Teardrops’, som blev sunget af Emmelie de Forest (født
1993)
Denmark has won the Eurovision Song Contest (European Melody Grand Prix) three times.
The first time was in 1963 with ‘Dansevise’, which was performed by Grethe Ingmann (1938-90) and Jørgen Ingmann (1925-2015).
Second time in the year 2000 with ‘Beautiful as a shooting star / Fly on the Wings of Love’, written and performed by the duo Brødrene Olsen, consisting of Jørgen Olsen (born 1950) and Niels Olsen (born 1954).
The third time was in 2013 with ‘Only Teardrops’, which was sung by Emmelie de Forest (born
1993)
Olafur Eliasson
En anden kunstner er dansk-islandske Olafur Eliasson
(født 1967). Et af hans mest kendte værker er ’Your rainbow panorama’ (Din regnbueudsigt) (2011) oven på
kunstmuseet ARoS i Aarhus, som er en 150 meter lang
cirkelformet gangbro i glas, hvor man kan se ud over Aarhus i alle regnbuens farver.
Another artist is Danish-Icelandic Olafur Eliasson
(born 1967). One of his most famous works is ‘Your rainbow panorama’ (2011) on top of
the art museum ARoS in Aarhus, which is 150 meters long circular walkway in glass, where you can look out over Aarhus in all the colors of the rainbow.
Yahya Hassan
Forfatteren Yahya Hassan (1995-2020) debuterede med
digtsamlingen ’Yahya Hassan’ (2013). Samlingen er den
digtsamling, som har solgt flest eksemplarer (over
100.000) i Danmark nogensinde.
Hassans digte om at vokse op og være ung som indvandrer i et ghettokvarter* skabte voldsom debat, fordi de pegede på problemer og på sammenstød mellem danske normer og normerne i socialt belastede indvandrermiljøer.
Author Yahya Hassan (1995-2020) debuted with
the collection of poems ‘Yahya Hassan’ (2013). The collection is it collection of poems which has sold the most copies (above 100,000) in Denmark ever.
Hassan’s poems about that growing up and being young as an immigrant in a ghetto neighborhood * created fierce debate because they pointed to problems and clashes between Danish norms and the norms in socially disadvantaged immigrant communities.
