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• ChronicleGesta Danorum: The History of the DanesGesta DanorumSaxo Grammaticus · 1208A Latin chronicle in sixteen books, half pagan legends and half Christian history, written to give the kingdom a past as ancient as that of Rome.Literature
• PoetryAandelige Siunge-Koors Første PartThomas Kingo · 1674not translated into EnglishIn a Lutheran kingdom where piety is kept at home as much as in church, a book gives the household a song for each moment of the day, set to secular tunes that everyone already had in their ear.Literature
• NovelNiels Klim's Journey Under the GroundNicolai Klimii iter subterraneumLudvig Holberg · 1741The Northern Enlightenment has its imaginary voyage: beneath a mountain in Norway, a society of rational trees where women govern and a quick mind passes for an infirmity.Literature
• TheatreThe Death of BalderBalders DødJohannes Ewald · 1775A sung tragedy drawn not from the Edda but from the Latin chronicle of the Danes, in which the gods of the North are used to express a passion that cannot be satisfied.Literature
• TheatreAladdin, or The Wonderful LampAladdin, eller Den forunderlige LampeAdam Oehlenschläger · 1805Danish Romanticism gives itself its figure of genius: a street boy to whom everything is given, set against a scholar who has studied everything and to whom nothing comes.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelAn Everyday StoryEn Hverdags-HistorieThomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd · 1828The story that gave its name to an entire Danish genre: the ordinary life of the capital's families, observed very closely, with nothing happening.LiteraturePublic domain
• TaleThe Little MermaidDen lille havfrueHans Christian Andersen · 1837A tale published in a series intended for young people, in which a creature of the sea pays with her voice for the wish to join the human world.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetrySang-Værk til den Danske KirkeNikolai Grundtvig · 1837A pastor wants to give the Danish Church a living song again, by letting all the voices of Christendom be heard in its own language.Literature
• PoetryDigteEmil Aarestrup · 1838not translated into EnglishA country doctor publishes the only book of verse he will give in his lifetime, and desire is spoken there without detour.LiteraturePublic domain
• EssayEither/OrEnten – EllerSøren Kierkegaard · 1843Two ways of living, enjoying the moment or committing oneself, entrusted to two voices, neither of which is the author's.Literature
• NovelAdam HomoFrederik Paludan-Müller · 1848The anti-Aladdin of Danish letters: instead of the boy to whom everything is given, the average man who gets everything because he yields on everything.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelPhantasterneHans Egede Schack · 1857not translated into EnglishA modern Don Quixote, in the words of the man who wrote it: no longer the romances of chivalry, but the faculty of dreaming examined as a trait of character.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelArvingenMeyer Aron Goldschmidt · 1865not translated into EnglishA man tells his life without giving it a title: the publisher called it “The Heir”, and the law of just retribution governs it from one end to the other.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryDigteHolger Drachmann · 1872not translated into EnglishThe first book of verse by a marine painter, dedicated to the critic who had discovered him and who wanted a literature engaged in the debates of the day.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelNiels LyhneJens Peter Jacobsen · 1880A young man wants to live without God, and the book tests this resolve at each bereavement.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelKatinkaVed VejenHerman Bang · 1886A small provincial railway station, a woman with nothing to do all day, and a narrative that shows instead of explaining.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Promised LandDet forjættede landHenrik Pontoppidan · 1895The Danish countryside of folk high schools and pastors, seen by a novelist who grants his illusions to no one.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Fall of the KingKongens FaldJohannes V. Jensen · 1901A failed student and a king, whose lives answer each other while an old world passes away, in three parts: spring, summer, winter.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Pilgrim KamanitaDer Pilger KamanitaKarl Adolph Gjellerup · 1906A Buddhist legend written in German by a Dane, sixteen years before Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelPelle the ConquerorPelle ErobrerenMartin Andersen Nexø · 1910Four volumes that run from the cowsheds of an estate on Bornholm to the workshops of the capital, following a child hired out as a day labourer with his father.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Dangerous AgeDen farlige alderKarin Michaëlis · 1910A woman approaching fifty writes what books did not say: what becomes of desire when the body begins to change.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaThe White SlaveDen hvide slavehandelAugust Blom · 1910A job advertisement, a departure for London, and a trade that the cinema of the day denounced without ever quite showing it.Cinema
• CinemaWitchcraft Through the AgesHäxanBenjamin Christensen · 1922An illustrated lecture on witchcraft that shifts along the way into fiction, to show what superstition does to the sick and the weak.Cinema
• Short storiesVor ven GrogRobert Storm Petersen · 1926not translated into EnglishA dog from Frederiksberg who watches the world of men from pavement level, with more wisdom than they have.Literature
• CinemaDon QuixoteLau Lauritzen · 1926A farce duo launched on the most serious of novels, and shot on location in Spain.Cinema
• NovelHavocHærværkTom Kristensen · 1930A literary critic who sets out to undo his own life, in interwar Copenhagen.Literature
• CinemaPræsten i VejlbyGeorge Schnéevoigt · 1931A miscarriage of justice of 1626, reported two centuries later in an account regarded as a classic, and already brought to the screen once in the silent era.Cinema
• TheatreThe WordOrdetKaj Munk · 1932A family of peasants whom faith divides more than it unites, and a country pastor who takes literally what his Church holds to be an image.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelStolen SpringDet forsømte forårHans Scherfig · 1940An authoritarian boys' school, around 1920, and what it does to the children who pass through it: the class taken as a scale model of society.Literature
• CinemaSommerglæderSvend Methling · 1940A Danish provincial hotel around 1900, and the little world that invades it, seen with tenderness and irony.Cinema
• NovelDe røde hesteMorten Korch · 1943not translated into EnglishThe threatened farm, the wounded daughter, the decent young man who arrives: a rural novel of the war years.Literature
• CinemaRed MeadowsDe røde engeBodil Ipsen · 1945A resistance film made just after the end of the occupation, based on the account of a former saboteur.Cinema
• CinemaDitte, Child of ManDitte MenneskebarnBjarne Henning-Jensen · 1946The Danish countryside of earlier times, a child whom nobody wants, and a film that goes out to shoot outside the studios.Cinema
• CinemaJenny and the SoldierSoldaten og JennyJohan Jacobsen · 1947Two young people of modest background, rejected by a self-righteous middle class, in the Copenhagen of their time.Cinema
• CinemaTake What You WantTa', hvad du vil ha'Ole Palsbo · 1947A bourgeois family of Copenhagen, eaten away by the money it is waiting for, viewed without any indulgence.Cinema
• Short storiesBabette's FeastKaren Blixen · 1950A parable about what a gift costs, in a community that has promised itself in advance to take no pleasure in it.Literature
• NovelThe LiarLøgnerenMartin A. Hansen · 1950A Danish island at the melting of the ice, a few days in a row, and a man alone who speaks to someone who does not exist.Literature
• CinemaThe Red HorsesDe røde hesteAlice O'Fredericks · 1950The Danish countryside as the public wanted to find it again in 1950: a farm to be saved and old values that hold firm.Cinema
• CinemaMeet Me on CassiopeiaMød mig på CassiopeiaTorben Anton Svendsen · 1951A post-war musical comedy in which the gods of Olympus meddle in the love affairs of a theatre troupe.Cinema
• Short storiesStrange StoriesSære historierVilly Sørensen · 1953A philosopher's first book, in which the absurd, told with humour, is used to test what people take to be guilt, law and danger.Literature
• CinemaThe WordOrdetCarl Th. Dreyer · 1955Two ways of believing clash between two farming households, filmed in shots so long that there is time to enter into them.Cinema
• CinemaQivitoqErik Balling · 1956Greenland filmed on location, between the Danes who administer it and the beliefs of those who live there.Cinema
• NovelTerminal InnocenceDen kroniske uskyldKlaus Rifbjerg · 1958Two boys in Copenhagen just after the war, and a raw language, the one they actually speak, which had as yet no place anywhere.Literature
• NovelKick Me in the TraditionsRend mig i traditionerneLeif Panduro · 1958A schoolboy who finds society sick, in the tidy Denmark of the fifties.Literature
• CinemaHarry and the ButlerHarry og kammertjenerenBent Christensen · 1961Two men with nothing in common, one who lives in a scrapyard and the other who served the great houses, and a comedy that looks at society from below.Cinema
• CinemaWeekendPalle Kjærulff-Schmidt · 1962Two days of holiday on the coast, three well-off couples and a bachelor, in the prosperous Denmark of the early sixties.Cinema
• CinemaSchool for SuicideSelvmordsskolenKnud Leif Thomsen · 1964A biting farce about the Danish welfare state at the moment it was taking hold, and about what it promises to take charge of.Cinema
• CinemaKnudJørgen Roos · 1966A compilation documentary, made of archive material and drawings, devoted to a polar explorer.Cinema
• CinemaHungerSultHenning Carlsen · 1966A northern city at the end of the century, a man who does not eat and who will ask for nothing, and a camera that stays with him from beginning to end.Cinema
• CinemaThe Perfect HumanDet perfekte menneskeJørgen Leth · 1968A white room, two bodies observed as in a laboratory: Denmark of the late sixties put on display.Cinema
• PoetryItDetInger Christensen · 1969A book that remakes Genesis with words that multiply like cells, from nothingness to society.Literature
• CinemaBallad of Carl-HenningBalladen om Carl-HenningSven and Lene Grønlykke · 1969A village in the marshes of Sønderjylland, and a boy too naive for what life has in store for him.Cinema
• CinemaQuiet Days in ClichyStille dage i ClichyJens Jørgen Thorsen · 1970Henry Miller's Paris seen again by a Danish agitator, in the years of the liberation of morals.Cinema
• CinemaRe: LoneAng.: LoneFranz Ernst · 1970A sixteen-year-old runaway, from Jutland to Copenhagen, followed very closely in the Denmark of 1970.Cinema
• CinemaThe Missing ClerkDen forsvundne fuldmægtigGert Fredholm · 1971A model civil servant in the welfare-state Denmark who chooses to disappear: a satire of bourgeois comfort transposed to the seventies.Cinema
• CinemaBenny's BathtubBennys badekarFlemming Quist Møller · 1971A bored child in a tower-block estate in the suburbs of Copenhagen, and a bath that turns into an ocean.Cinema
• NarrativeVangede billederDan Turèll · 1975not translated into EnglishA working-class suburb recounted from the inside, with tenderness and irony, in a prose that follows the breath rather than the sentence.Literature
• CinemaThe Earth Is FlatJorden er fladHenrik Stangerup · 1977A Danish eighteenth-century comedy transposed to colonial Brazil and performed in Portuguese.Cinema
• CinemaVandalismHærværkOle Roos · 1977Copenhagen between the wars, a critic who breaks with everything that holds him, and drink for company.Cinema
• CinemaMirror, MirrorLille spejlEdward Fleming · 1978A worker, his mother and the small world around them, in Copenhagen at the end of the seventies.Cinema
• CinemaJohnny LarsenMorten Arnfred · 1979A working-class boy in postwar Copenhagen, between the workshop, the barracks and the family.Cinema
• CinemaStepping OutSlingrevalsenEsben Høilund-Carlsen · 1981Divorced, disillusioned forty-somethings of the Danish welfare state, who no longer quite know how to love one another.Cinema
• CinemaTree of KnowledgeKundskabens træNils Malmros · 1981A secondary-school class in Aarhus in the late fifties, and the first wounds of puberty.Cinema
• CinemaWalter and Carlo - Up on Daddy's HatWalter og Carlo — op på fars hatPer Holst · 1985Two characters from a Saturday-night variety show, let loose in the Spain of package holidays.Cinema
• CinemaBabette's FeastBabettes gæstebudGabriel Axel · 1987A austere Lutheran community, and a meal that forces it to see itself differently.Cinema
• CinemaPelle the ConquerorPelle ErobrerenBille August · 1987Swedish emigrants on a Danish island, a father who bends and a son who learns to bend no more.Cinema
• CinemaWaltzing RegitzeDansen med RegitzeKaspar Rostrup · 1989A Danish working-class couple, a summer garden party and an entire life that comes back in fragments.Cinema
• CinemaFish Out of WaterDe frigjorteErik Clausen · 1993A Copenhagen worker laid off just as the Eastern Bloc collapses, and a man who no longer knows who he is.Cinema
• CinemaBreaking the WavesLars von Trier · 1996A rigorist community on the Scottish coast, closing itself off from the world, and a woman who mistakes her desire for a duty.Cinema
• CinemaThe CelebrationFestenThomas Vinterberg · 1998A birthday dinner in the Danish upper bourgeoisie of the late twentieth century, where everything is played out at the table.Cinema

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