DENMARK
Area: 43 098 km² - There are two associated autonomous territories, the Feroe Islands (1 400 km2 and 48 000 inhabitants) and Greenland (2,175 millions m2 and 56 000 inhabitants) - Population: 5.4 millions - Capital: Copenhagen
Official language: Danish - Date of joining the EU: 1973
A few indications
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), and the theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) are Denmark’s greatest literary figures.
Danish culture was particularly lively in the second half of the 19th century. More recently, Karen Blixen (1885-1962) scored a worldwide success with Out of Africa. The most famous movie maker is Carl Dreyer (1889-1968), whose the Passion of Joan of Arc is a classic.
The musician Carl Nielsen has composed more than one hundred works. Finally, the Royal Danish Ballet has an established reputation.
Denmark now scores on the international scene in the field of design, in which the sober and streamlined forms of the Danish creators have won a large public, in contemporary cinema, which is demanding and provocative, with Lars Von Trier, and in contemporary art, in particular with Olafur Eliasson.
events connected with the country
Franco-Danish tandem
9-16 October in Montpellier, sonorities Festival
Musical creation
Composition: Jørgen Teller, Carole Rieussec.
And also…
10 October-6 January in Lille, palais des Beaux-Arts (fine arts palace)
Exhibition
Nordic breakaways: The Scandinavian and Finnish masters in France (1870-1914)
Exhibition of Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish artists who flocked to France at the end of the19th and at the beginning of 20th century. Seminars and film showings organised by the embassies and institutes of the Nordic countries based on the exhibition.
November in Paris, Maison du Danemark (Denmark House)
Exhibition
Marinus and Marianne
Satirical photomontages by Danish photographer and journalist Marinus Jacob Kjeldgaard, which made the cover of the Parisian weekly Marianne between 1932 and 1940. Within the framework of European photography month.
20-22 November in Paris, Maison du Danemark (Denmark House)
Concert
Jazz.DK
A Danish jazz festival organised in collaboration with the Danish jazz federation and in partnership with TSF radio.
12 November-February in Paris, musée du Louvre (salle de la Chapelle)
Exhibition
Nicolaï Abraham Abildgaard
An exhibition concerning the Danish painter (1743-1809), who played a decisive role in dissemination of Neo-Classicism in Denmark. In collaboration with the Fine arts museum of Copenhagen.
For more information:
Embassy of Denmark
Cultural and press department
77 avenue Marceau - 75116 Paris
Tel.: 01 44 31 21 21
http://www.ambparis.um.dk
paramb@um.dk
Maison du Danemark
142 avenue des Champs-Élysées - 75008 Paris
Tel.: 01 56 59 17 40
http://www.maisondudanemark.dk
mdd@maisondudanemark.dk
- Updated: 17.07.2008
