Denmark: History and Culture news

American magazine Newsweek has named Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as one of the ‘world’s 150 most fearless women’, alongside film star Angelina Jolie, rock singer Lady Gaga, and TV host Oprah Winfrey.

Because of imposed ideas of "Fear Culture" Royal Ballet dancers have lost credibility to theatre managing, - confirms author of the "management and cocaine problems in Royal Ballet" report.

From the 9th to the 18th of March 2012 Aarhus, a Danish city, made a giant leap to the past. National University presented "The Festival of the Century" ("Århundredets Festival") devoted to the 18th century, freedom, enlightenment, tyranny and slavery of that time.

The Royal Library in Copenhagen and the British company ProQuest keep on working together on digitization of the Danish national early books.

New site dedicated to the history of Nordic women’s literature was first open to public access 8 March 2012. The site launch was timed to coincide with International Women’s Day; and the event was celebrated both in Denmark (Copenhagen, Kolding) and abroad (Goeteborg, Berlin).

Danish producer Lars von Trier and his colleagues, two producers David Lynch and Martin Scorsese, have recently acted in a documentary film “Side by side” where Keanu Reeves made his debut as a producer.

Danes Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg became the happy owners of Silver Bear at the 62-nd Berlin International Film Festival  «Berlinale» for their script to film «A Royal affair» («En kongelig affære»).

An experiment with lending e-books in eReolen.dk library was a great success. It started in November,1 of the last year  and already in January the quantity of loadings increased by 53% regarding December data. It means 80965 e-books were downloaded since the first date of the experiment.

Art will save the European economy from the financial crisis. That is the point of the special commission organized recently by the Danish Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk. The commission was named "Team Culture" and it consists of 12 workers of culture from all over Europe.