Hans Christian Andersen (, ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), in Denmark usually called H.C. Andersen, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes and translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Little Mermaid," "The Nightingale," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea," "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Match Girl," and "Thumbelina." His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films.
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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen | Introduction
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Prince Eric's birthday.
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what is the genre of the film?
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An animated musical fantasy.
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what is the plot about?
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The film tells the story of a mermaid Princess named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human and falls in love with a human prince named Eric.
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who produced it?
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Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney.
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was the plot influenced by any story?
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It is based on the 1837 Danish fairy tale of the same name.
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who wrote this tale?
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Hans Christian Andersen
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had he written travalogues?
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"Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz and Swiss Saxony.
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what language does he use to produce his works?
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Titles like "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes" have become idiomatic in several languages.
Hans Christian Andersen | Language
It tells the story of a murderer who flees his home in Telemark and settles in Denmark where he starts writing letters to people he grew up with - first in Danish, then, as he remembers more and more dark secrets of his past, gradually switching to Nynorsk, Bokmål and the dialect of Telemark until at the end, virtually every sentence becomes a complex mixture of various languages and dialects. An ambitious project undertaken by the universities of Zurich and Munich worked on a German translation of the story for several years and released a finished version in 2005. The team moved the story to Switzerland and substituted standard German, Swiss German, Romansh and various Swiss dialects for the original's languages and dialects.
Hans Herbjørnsrud | Introduction
That night while Peter surreptitiously reads the letter, a gust of wind whisks it from his hands and carries it into the theater through an open window, where a stage doorman finds it and delivers it to Doro. The next morning, Peter tells Hans that Doro has the letter, but Hans is unconcerned, believing that Doro's possession of the letter is a good omen. The next day, the entire ballet company sets off on their annual tour, leaving Hans bereft, but he soon finds comfort entertaining a new group of children with his stories. One day, Lars, a sad boy with a shaved head, remains behind after the other children tease him.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet. Taking the suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing. Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Danish Theatre, held great affection for Andersen and sent him to a grammar school in Slagelse, persuading King Frederick VI to pay part of the youth's education. Andersen had by then published his first story, "The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave" (1822). Though not a stellar pupil, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early life
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish author and poet. Hans Christian Andersen may also refer to:
Hans Christian Andersen (disambiguation) | Introduction
Andersen's father, who had received an elementary school education, introduced his son to literature, reading to him the "Arabian Nights". Andersen's mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter, was an illiterate washerwoman. Following her husband's death in 1816, she remarried in 1818. Andersen was sent to a local school for poor children where he received a basic education and had to support himself, working as an apprentice to a weaver and, later, to a tailor. At fourteen, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor. Having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early life
Then, after Kaj Hansen from had welcomed everyone, Laurids Skau made a speech. Carl Ploug was in the audience and it is probably this speech he refers to when he later writes about the peasant who says: ... from South Jutland High, thousands listened, staring as scintillating starlight thoughts flew, as words rattled like swords.
Skamlingsbanken | The language meetings
A teenaged Hans Christian Andersen the son of a poor shoemaker,daydreams instead of studying for school. He runs away from home. Whenever he falls asleep, he dreams that he is in strange adventures with tailors, a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb, a mermaid, a devil boy in Eden, and others. In reality, as well as in his dreams, Hans is searching for the Garden of Paradise, which he does not find. The dream sequences are puppet animation, complete with a puppet version of himself. These dreams become the basis for his fairy tale fictions, which he writes as an adult: "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "Little Claus and Big Claus", and "The Garden of Paradise".
The Daydreamer (film) | Plot
Gradually, and by dint of infinite patience and concentration, the young peasant mastered many languages, and began the scientific study of their structure. Ivar single-handedly created a new language for Norway to become the "literary" language.
Ivar Aasen | Background
Andersen wrote a fourth commentary on Habakkuk by himself. The other research partnership was with A. Dean Forbes, who was Project Manager for Computer Speech Recognition Research at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. Over a period of more than thirty-five years, Andersen and Forbes carried out research in the field of computer-assisted corpus linguistics, developing a computer database of all the clauses in the Hebrew Bible. During the initial period of research from 1971 to 1979, Andersen transcribed the entire text of the Leningrad Codex of the Hebrew Bible into machine readable form. The orthographic words were then segmented into grammatical segments.
Francis Andersen | Work
Peter, who has sought refuge from the police by hiding near the back entrance of the Royal Theatre, overhears choreographer Niels demand that a company producer send for a cobbler and asks them to free his friend, a cobbler, from jail. Meanwhile, Hans sees a lonely young girl outside his jail cell window and offers to introduce her to his companion. By drawing on his thumb, Hans creates a puppet he calls "Thumbelina" and brings a smile to the girl's face. Soon after, Hans is bailed out of jail by the theater company and taken to the theater where he becomes entranced by the beauty and talent of a Royal Danish Ballet dress rehearsal.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
He translated into Greek the stories of Hans Christian Andersen (for his nephews and nieces), and various Shakespeare plays.
Demetrios Vikelas | Translations
When Hans Christian Andersen came to Rome in 1833, he brought with him a collection of medieval Danish folk songs ("folkeviser") of which especially "Hr. Sverkel" would inspire him to write a dramatic play. In January 1835 he had finally completed the libretto to a singspiele entitled "LLoden Kirsten". Andersen handed the play over to the Royal Theatre and it was his intention that some of the songs should be performed to traditional folk melodies. It was criticized for suffering from "emptiness, thinness and dramatic poverty" but was all the same accepted. It was then handed over to the composer Ivar Bredal who was supposed to find and arrange the suitable folk melodies but never completed the work.
Liden Kirsten | Background
A large part of the narrative is told through song and ballet and includes many of the real Andersen's most famous stories, such as "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid". The film was an international success at the time of its release.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Introduction
In the 1830s, in the small Danish town of Odense, cobbler Hans Christian Andersen spends his day spinning fairy tales for the village children, teaching them lessons about pride, humility, love and growing up through his fanciful characters. One day, the stern schoolmaster, who believes Hans is wasting his pupils' precious time, implores the Burgomaster and councilmen to curtail the cobbler's habit of distracting the students with his storytelling, but even the adult citizens easily become a rapt audience for Hans' fables. Hans finally agrees to stop distracting the children and returns to his shop, where his teenage assistant, the orphan Peter, begs him to stop causing trouble.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
Each of his travelogues combines documentary and descriptive accounts of his experiences, adding additional philosophical passages on topics such as what it is to be an author, general immortality, and the nature of fiction in literary travel reports. Some of the travelogues, such as "In Sweden", even contain fairy-tales. In the 1840s, Andersen's attention again returned to the theatre stage, but with little success. He had better luck with the publication of the "Picture-Book without Pictures" (1840). A second series of fairy tales was started in 1838 and a third series in 1845. Andersen was now celebrated throughout Europe although his native Denmark still showed some resistance to his pretensions.
Hans Christian Andersen | Travelogues
For whatever reason it was never used by Gade, but a draft can be found among Andersen's papers. Some parts of the text were transferred to the final version. The next person who turned his hand to this text was Christian Molbech in whose papers there is a version that is closer to the final one, which by all accounts was developed by Gade's cousin Carl Andersen and the editor Gottlieb Siesby, while the atmospheric choral interlude "I østen stiger solen op" was written already in 1837 by B. S. Ingemann and received a tune by C. E. F. Weyse the same year.
Elverskud | Origins
Andersen followed this success with a theatrical piece, "Love on St. Nicholas Church Tower", and a short volume of poems. He made little progress in writing and publishing immediately following the issue of these poems but he did receive a small travel grant from the king in 1833. This enabled him to set out on the first of many journeys throughout Europe. At Jura, near Le Locle, Switzerland, Andersen wrote the story "Agnete and the Merman". The same year he spent an evening in the Italian seaside village of Sestri Levante, the place which inspired the title of "The Bay of Fables".
Hans Christian Andersen | Early work
The playwright Henrik Ibsen had a small group of such characters which he referred to as his "devil orchestra"; a black boy climbing up a ladder on an elephant, a cat chewing another with rice twigs, singing after sheet music, writing, directing, devils pulling each other in wheelbarrows or carrying inkwells between them, a frog on ashtray playing on banjo . Ibsen used these as inspiration: "There should be Troll in what I write," he said. Some of the characters were reported missing from the exhibitions on October 6, 1980, and has never returned. The rest of the characters are safely preserved at the playwright's desk in Ibsenmuseet in Oslo.
Franz Xaver Bergmann | Trivia
Erik Christian Haugaard (April 13, 1923 – June 4, 2009) was a Danish-born American writer, best known for children's books and for his translations of the works of Hans Christian Andersen.
Erik Christian Haugaard | Introduction
The language consisted of borrowed and/or distorted words that took the place of Danish words, while keeping the syntax of the speakers' Danish dialect. The language was probably used for secret communication in the presence of outsiders and to strengthen ingroup solidarity.
Rotvælsk | Introduction
Although it is not as common as its brother language, it needs to be looked upon as a viable language, as a large minority of Norwegians use it as their primary language including many scholars and authors. New Norse is both a written and spoken language. Aasen composed poems and plays in the composite dialect to show how it should be used; one of these dramas, "The Heir" (1855), was frequently acted, and may be considered as the pioneer of all the abundant dialect-literature of the last half-century of the 1800s, from Vinje to Garborg. In 1856, he published "Norske Ordsprog", a treatise on Norwegian proverbs.
Ivar Aasen | Career
He also translated poetry, opera librettos and other texts from languages including French, English, and Chinese. His translation of the libretto of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" from German into Swedish in 1968 became a classic, which was also used in Ingmar Bergman's movie version of the opera from 1975.
Alf Henrikson | Production
Born in Asker, he grew up in Hamar.
Jan Frode Andersen | Introduction
Hans Christian Andersen (, ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), in Denmark usually called H.C. Andersen, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes and translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Little Mermaid," "The Nightingale," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea," "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Match Girl," and "Thumbelina." His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films.
Hans Christian Andersen | Introduction
In these works he attempts to penetrate the poet's intentions both through linguistic analysis and by psychological study, particularly for the works of Poul Møller and Adam Oehlenschläger. There are smaller scientific papers drawing on philology, the study of language development. Andersen later returned to Møller (1904) and Oehlenschläger, (1917) and wrote smaller works on Frederik Paludan-Müller, Henrik Pontoppidan, and Vilhelm Topsøe. In 1918 Anderson was appointed as a full professor in Nordic literature at the university, and held that post until 1930. His intellectual, historical masterpieces cover the various periods of Danish literature and attempt to bind the study of classical literature with the domestic growth in Danish and European intellectual life over the centuries.
Vilhelm Andersen | Biography
"Blockhead Hans" (Danish: "Klods-Hans") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in Danish in 1855. An early English translation (as "Blockhead Hans") appeared in Andrew Lang's 1894 "The Yellow Fairy Book", although Lang gave no source for the tale. The tale has been variously translated as "Clumsy Hans", "Silly Hans" and "Jack the Dullard". It is number 119 in the Hans Christian Andersen Centre's register of Andersen's literary works.
Blockhead Hans | Introduction
In Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Opera "Iolanthe", the Lord Chancellor mocks the Fairy Queen with a reference to Andersen, thereby implying that her claims are fictional: It seems that she's a fairy From Andersen's library, And I took her for The proprietor Of a Ladies' Seminary! In Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music", the middle-aged Frederik contemplates reading erotic literature to his young, virginal bride in order to seduce her, but concludes: "Her taste is much blander / I'm sorry to say / But is Hans Christian Ander- / Sen ever risqué?"
Hans Christian Andersen | Cultural references
The partial transcription by a scribe named Wisolf ran into difficulties and he ended with the words: "nequeo Vuisolf" ("I am unable. Wisolf"). There is no indication of whether Wisolf was writing down an oral text or whether he was copying an earlier written version.
Georgslied | Introduction
Producer Samuel Goldwyn conceived the idea for the film in 1936 and employed numerous writers to work on early drafts of the screenplay over the years. In 1941 he was reportedly in discussions with Walt Disney Studios to produce the film, but the deal fell through. The film was eventually produced in the spring of 1952. Danish authorities were not consulted on the film and there were complaints from Denmark that the film was a fairy tale rather than the true story of Andersen's life and the Danish Foreign Office considered making a formal protest against the film. (All songs have words and music by Frank Loesser).
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Production
Tale of Hans Christian Andersen: The Princess and the Pea.
Kotava | Example of text
Hans tells him the story of an ugly duckling who is ostracized by his peers until the ice melts at winter's end, and he sees his reflection in the lake and finds he has become a handsome swan. When not with the children, Hans counts the days by making pair after pair of brightly colored satin slippers for his absent ballerina and dreaming of her love. One day, Hans receives an invitation from the Gazette newspaper office, where Lars's father, the publisher, thanks Hans for helping his son overcome his difficulties and offers to publish "The Ugly Duckling" in the newspaper.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
A young Hans Christian Andersen, while seeking an opera ticket, suddenly discovers the inspirations and talents he will later have for his fairy tales.
The World of Hans Christian Andersen | Synopsis
Although the literary value of this collection was later disputed by some critics, it is undeniable that "Rimen en Teltsjes" played a role of crucial importance in the development of a new literary tradition after Western Frisian had been used almost exclusively as a spoken language for three centuries.
Justus Hiddes Halbertsma | Introduction
Hofmannsthal's libretto is a combination of different forms of the German language. Members of the nobility speak in very refined language, often archaic (set to the time of the opera) and very courteous. In more intimate circles they use a more familiar style of speech (). For instance, the conversations between Octavian and the Marschallin in the first act use the familiar "you" but switch back and forth between more formal speech ("Sie") and the familiar "du", as well as the intermediate (and now obsolete) "Er". Some productions of the opera include a glossary in the programme to help clarify the contextual meaning of the language used, which is mostly lost in translation.
Der Rosenkavalier | Language
"The Three Languages" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 33. It is Aarne-Thompson type 671.
The Three Languages | Introduction
Out of these components, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger wrote his drama.
Arnljot | Introduction
Hans Andersen Foss (November 25, 1851 – July 9, 1929) was a Norwegian-American author, newspaper editor and temperance leader. Foss is most noted for his Norwegian language novel, "Husmands-gutte" (1885) which was translated into English as "The Cotter's Son. A story from Sigdal".
Hans Andersen Foss | Introduction
One of Hans Christian Andersen's first poems, "Det døende Barn" (the dying child) was published in the newspaper on 25 September 1827. "Kjøbenhavnsposten" would later on 13 May 1833 publish a parody on Hans Christian Andersen written by an anonymous author.
Kjøbenhavnsposten | The article on the frontpage from 28 November 1838 is about democracy
Stig Dalager (born 1952) is a Danish writer. He is the author of 64 literary works of all kinds, mostly novels and plays, of which several have been translated or staged internationally. His works include "I Count the Hours", a monologue for a woman in Sarajevo (1993), staged in 12 countries; "The Dream", play (premiered in New York City 1999 starring Ingmar Bergman actress Bibi Andersson, since staged in Moscow and Łódź); "Two Days in July" (a 2004 novel about the German officers' rebellion against the Nazi regime on July 20, 1944), "Journey in Blue"; a biographical novel about Hans Christian Andersen (published in 15 countries and languages and nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2008); "The Labyrinth" (a 2006 novel situated in Vienna anno 1993-1994) "Land of shadows" (a 2007 novel situated in New York on 9-11 on the World Trade Center); and "Slowly Comes the Light" (a 2009 novel, situated in Baghdad, New York and London 2004-2005).
Stig Dalager | Introduction
In 1875 broken scripts were abolished and replaced by a looped cursive ("løkkeskrift"). In 1952, the "Formskrift" of the Norwegian Alvhild Bjerkenes was introduced to Denmark by the writing and grammar school teacher Christian Clemens Hansen and became the dominant script in schools over the next 20 to 30 years.
Teaching script | Denmark
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark on 2 April 1805 to Hans Andersen, a shoemaker, and Anne Marie Andersdatter. An only child, Andersen shared a love of literature with his father, who read him "The Arabian Nights" and the fables of Jean de la Fontaine. Together, they constructed panoramas, pop-up pictures and toy theatres, and took long jaunts into the countryside. Andersen's father died in 1816, and from then on, Andersen was left on his own. In order to escape his poor, illiterate mother, he promoted his artistic inclinations and courted the cultured middle class of Odense, singing and reciting in their drawing-rooms.
Thumbelina | Background
In all Grundtvig wrote or translated about 1,500 hymns, including "God's Word Is Our Great Heritage", most of which are still frequently sung today. Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) is remembered first and foremost for his fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1872 not only for children but for adults too. Among the most popular are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and "The Ugly Duckling". Considered to be the father of the modern fairytale, Andersen wrote a total of 156 fairy stories, only 12 of which drew on folk tales. But Andersen also wrote a number of travel sketches, several novels including the well-received: "The Improvisatore" (1835), a series of poems, and his autobiography "The Fairy Tale of My Life" (1855).
Danish literature | The Golden Age
In 1851, he published "In Sweden", a volume of travel sketches. The publication received wide acclaims. A keen traveler, Andersen published several other long travelogues: "Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz, Swiss Saxony, etc. etc. in the Summer of 1831", "A Poet's Bazaar", "In Spain" and "A Visit to Portugal in 1866". (The last describes his visit with his Portuguese friends Jorge and Jose O'Neill, who were his friends in the mid-1820s while he was living in Copenhagen.) In his travelogues, Andersen took heed of some of the contemporary conventions related to travel writing but he always developed the style to suit his own purpose.
Hans Christian Andersen | Travelogues
Sir Hans Paus (born 1656 in Hjartdal – 18 March 1715) was a Norwegian priest and poet. He was parish priest in Kviteseid from 1683 until his death. A popular man in his parish who learned the local dialect (at a time when most church officials and civil servants used Danish), he is noted for being the first to write in dialect in Norway. His poem "Stolt Anne" ("ca." 1700), written in the Kviteseid dialect, became a popular folk song in Telemark. 12 verses were included in "Norske Folkeviser" (1853) by Magnus Brostrup Landstad and Henrik Ibsen, a relative of Hans Paus, paraphrased the poem in the drama "Lady Inger of Ostrat".
Hans Paus | Introduction
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Hans Andersson | Introduction
However, later that day Hans is drawn back to the schoolhouse to see the children. As he hears the schoolchildren drone mathematical phrases, he compares an inchworm's myopic measuring of beautiful blossoms to the schoolmaster's blindness to beauty and creativity. On yet another day, when the children do not arrive at the sound of the school bell, the schoolmaster deduces that Hans is again distracting his pupils. When the schoolmaster then demands that the Burgomaster and the councilmen choose between him and the cobbler, they decide that Hans must leave Odense. Peter, who has witnessed the verdict, returns to the shop and secretly tries to save his friend from the shame of being exiled by eagerly suggesting Hans travel to Copenhagen.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
English: Note: Translations made by E. Sutton and P. Owens in the 1930s and 40s were abbreviated and/or made from unreliable editions, according to Fallada biographer Jenny Williams. German:
Hans Fallada | Works
The variant spellings of the names "Hiltibrant/Hiltibraht", "Hadubrant/Hadubraht", "Theotrihhe/Detriche/Deotrichhe". were almost certainly present in the source. In several places, the absence of alliteration linking the two halves of a line suggests missing text, so ll.10a and 11b, which follow each other in the manuscript ("fıreo ın folche • eddo welıhhes cnuosles du sis", "who his father was in the host • or what family you belong to")), do not make a well-formed alliterating line and in addition display an abrupt transition between third-person narrative and second-person direct speech. The phrase "quad hiltibrant" ("said Hildebrand") in lines 49 and 58 (possibly line 30 also) breaks the alliteration and seems to be a hypermetrical scribal addition to clarify the dialogue.
Hildebrandslied | Problems
The Shadow () is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published in 1847.
The Shadow (fairy tale) | Introduction
"Peer Gynt" was written in Danish, the common written language of Denmark and Norway since the Dano-Norwegian union and throughout Ibsen's lifetime. The language was usually referred to as Danish in Denmark and as Norwegian in Norway, although it was essentially the same written language, and is therefore often called Dano-Norwegian. Due to its basis in Norwegian folktales, the play uses a few Norwegianisms in its vocabulary and idiom, but is otherwise written in a language identical to standard Danish. "Peer Gynt" was originally published by the Danish publisher Gyldendal in Copenhagen and targeted at both the Danish and the Norwegian market in its original language.
Peer Gynt | Language
Haakon Jarl's life also received literary treatment by Danish poet Adam Oehlenschläger, in his tragedy "Hakon Jarl", written in six weeks in 1805 during a stay in Halle, after reading Snorri's "Heimskringla". The theme is the conflict between paganism and Christianity. There is an English translation by J. C. Lindberg. Oehlenschläger's play later formed the basis for Smetana's symphonic poem "Hakon Jarl".
Haakon Sigurdsson | Oehlenschläger tragedy
Composer/sounddesigner/actor at the following performances by author and dramatist Michael Svennevig: • "Ørkenshow." Teatret ved Sorte Hest, 2008 • "HEGN". About a Refugee's Life and Dreams in Denmark. Teatret ved Sorte Hest, 2008
Thulla | Theater
A very early fairy tale by Andersen, "The Tallow Candle" (), was discovered in a Danish archive in October 2012. The story, written in the 1820s, was about a candle that did not feel appreciated. It was written while Andersen was still in school and dedicated to one of his benefactors. The story remained in that family's possession until it turned up among other family papers in a local archive. In 1829, Andersen enjoyed considerable success with the short story "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager." Its protagonist meets characters ranging from Saint Peter to a talking cat.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early work
Hans Christian Andersen's works may be considered "literary fairytales.
List of fairy tales | Scandinavia
Hans Jørgen Uldall (; 25 May 1907 Silkeborg, Denmark29 October 1957 Ibadan, Nigeria) was a Danish linguist known for developing the linguistic theory of glossematics with Louis Hjelmslev. Having studied English with Otto Jespersen at the University of Copenhagen he went to London to study phonology with Daniel Jones. In 1929 he had a lectureship at the University of Cape Town, and then went back to London to teach phonetics in 1930. While in Cape Town, he corresponded with the doyen of American anthropology Franz Boas at Columbia, who secured him a grant of 2000 dollars to undertake field work on the Maidu language under the auspices of the Archaeological and Ethnographic Survey of California, established by A.
Hans Jørgen Uldall | Introduction
Though the dialogue does not contradict logic, it cannot be called realistic in the strictest sense. One character's line might fade into the next as though the second person knew exactly what he was going to say; sometimes a character will slip into a memory and partially relive a former or younger self in a monologue; and over the course of the show, there is a definite ambiguity as to whether they are speaking to one another or to the audience. The play was originally written in English, but the real people in the exchange may have had the conversation in Danish or German, but even with translation in mind, Frayn defends that the words in the script are those that the characters would actually say.
Copenhagen (play) | Language
When the Spaniards Were Here is a romantic, comic play by Hans Christian Andersen. It premiered on the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen on 6 April 1865, just a few days after the celebration of Andersen's 60th birthday.
When the Spaniards Were Here | Introduction
In his post-script, he writes, "If this needs any justification, I can only appeal to Heisenberg himself." Understandably, Frayn needs to present the characters in an interesting and dramatic light, as well as depicting a setting that no living person has visited, so the accuracy of such dialogue is subject to dwindle by degrees. "Plain language" and "scientific language" both operate in the play. There are several instances when the two physicists start speaking too scientifically for many people to understand, and one of them will remark that they must revert to plain language, to explain it in a way that Margrethe will understand.
Copenhagen (play) | Language
Although written originally in German, it was later translated into English under the auspices of John Cage and Henry Cowell and received wide acclaim. The text (English translation) of all the parts consists of various permutations of the following lines: The place names are largely the same in German and English except for Ratibor (Trinidad) and Athen (in place of Tibet) which is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable in German. The German text is as follows;
Geographical Fugue | Translation
Hans Christian Aarsleff (born 19 July 1925, Rungsted Kyst, Denmark) is emeritus (1997) professor of English at Princeton University, and a renowned specialist in the history of linguistics, the history of ideas, and the history of philosophy of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Hans Aarsleff | Introduction
In all Grundtvig wrote or translated about 1,500 hymns, including "God's Word Is Our Great Heritage", most of which are still frequently sung today. Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) is remembered first and foremost for his fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1872 not only for children but for adults too. Among the most popular are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and "The Ugly Duckling". Considered to be the father of the modern fairytale, Andersen wrote a total of 156 fairy stories, only 12 of which drew on folk tales. But Andersen also wrote a number of travel sketches, several novels including the well-received: "The Improvisatore" (1835), a series of poems, and his autobiography "The Fairy Tale of My Life" (1855).
Danish Golden Age | Literature and philosophy
This is a list of published works by Hans Christian Andersen. The list has been supplemented with a few important posthumous editions of his works; the year given in each entry refers to the first Danish edition. They are all in the public domain because Andersen died over 100 years ago.
Hans Christian Andersen bibliography | Introduction
Andersen's first childhood memory involved Spanish soldiers on Funen. The first time they appear in his writings is in the poem "Soldaten ("The Soldier") from 1830. The male protagonist of his play "Skilles og mødes" was also a Spanish soldier. In 1835. Amdersem wrote a vaudeville totæed "Spanierne i Odense" (The Spaniards in Odense) which never premiered. In 1865, he adapted it into the play "When the Spaniards Were Here", changing the setting from Odense to Middelfart.
When the Spaniards Were Here | Composition
Aanrud, who came from a rural family, was born and raised in Auggedalen, a valley in Gausdal (part of Gudbrandsdal). He attended a grammar school and then practised as a private tutor. When he had some success with his literary works he moved to Oslo. There he was a literary and theatre critic. From 1911 to 1923 he was also an adviser at the national theatre of Oslo.
Hans Aanrud | Life
He wrote two librettos and numerous novels and plays.
Einar Christiansen | Introduction
His results were published in the "Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed" (Guideline to Scandinavian Antiquity) in 1836. An English translation was produced in 1848.
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen | Introduction
Hans Heiberg (28 January 1904 – 6 December 1978) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, theatre critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, translator and theatre director.
Hans Heiberg | Introduction
Henrik Ibsen, a relative of Hans Paus, paraphrased the poem in the drama "Lady Inger of Ostrat".
Stolt Anne | Introduction
Though somewhat rigid, it rendered idioms accurately. Ironically, chief David Christiaan Goliath and the local congregational school forbade pupils from being educated in their mother tongue, opting instead to teach in Dutch, the language of the local white settlers and the Oorlam.
Hans Christian Knudsen (missionary) | Writings
Christian Morgenstern was also an acclaimed translator, rendering into German various prominent works from Norwegian and French, including the dramas and poems of Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and August Strindberg.
Christian Morgenstern | Morgenstern as translator
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author Anna Anderson, impostor of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia Andrew II of Hungary, King of Hungary
List of historical ballet characters | A
Ihre thought, in accordance with the historical speculations common at the time and derived from Icelandic sources, that the language had been brought to the Nordic countries by Odin. Ihre was also the first to demonstrate that the text of the "Codex argenteus" manuscript in the Uppsala University Library is identical to the Gothic Bible translation by Bishop Wulfila.
Johan Ihre | Works
His translation of a quiz book by the German priest Michael Saxe, first published in 1602, became very popular and was reissued several times. The book became known as "", as even priests had a hard time to give correct answers to the intricate biblical questions.
Hallvard Gunnarssøn | Introduction
Ettmüller contributed to the study of English with an alliterative translation of "Beowulf" (1840), an Anglo-Saxon chrestomathy entitled "Engla and Seaxna scopas and boceras" (1850), and a well-known "Lexicon Anglo-Saxonicum" (1851), in which the explanations and comments are given in Latin, but the words unfortunately are arranged according to their etymological affinity, and the letters according to phonetic relations. He edited a large number of standard German and Low German texts, and to the study of the Scandinavian literatures he contributed an edition of the "Völuspá" (1831), a translation of the "Lieder der Edda von den Nibelungen" (1837) and an old Norse reading book and vocabulary.
Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller | Published works
He published a total of six booklets with "Fairy Tales Told for Children" in the period 1835-1842, followed by "New Fairytales" published in the period 1843-1848. Andersen also wrote the novels "O.T." and "Kun en Spillemand" (1837) and completed "The Improvisatore" while he lived at Nyhavn 20. In his diary, he describes an episode where he suddenly felt cold while working on "The Improvisator". When he opened the door to the neighbouring room, he found out that his land lady and the maid had opened the windows and poured water on the floor, so that her four children could slide on it when the water froze.
Nyhavn 20 | 19th century
The tale was collected by the Brothers Grimm from a man named Hans Truffer from Visp. The tale was included in the 1819 edition of their "Kinder- und Hausmärchen", replacing the earlier "Der gestiefelte Kater" ("The Tomcat with Boots").
The Three Languages | Origins
Nebel's goal in reduction and concentration of linguistic material was to create a contrasting language to hackneyed everyday language and its rational use. He wrote, "The miseducated people of our times are deaf to words and blind to images. They do not hear what they read. What they write, they cannot see." Nebel believed that he regained the directness lying hidden behind the conventions of language in individual words and letters of the alphabet. With format larger than man-size, the Runen-Fahnen intimate that the whole body should participate in reading. The Runen-Fahnen are a fourfold visual representation of the original beginning of the text:
Otto Nebel | Runic fugues and runic flags
Noteworthy recordings in English include: "Tale Spinners for Children" released seven LP's of dramatizations of Andersen stories:
Hans Christian Andersen | Audio recordings
"The Shadow" became the first text of some considerable length to be published in Esperanto. It was contained in the 1888 "Dua Libro" ("Second Book") by the creator of that language, L. L. Zamenhof (the first book had contained only single bible verses, short poems and the like). Evgeny Shvarts has explicitly based his "Tyen" ("The Shadow") play on Andersen's tale, introducing additional characters and plot lines and a different ending. In 1945 the story was adapted as an episode of the syndicated radio program "The Weird Circle".
The Shadow (fairy tale) | Adaptations
The sample text is a reading of the first sentence of "The North Wind and the Sun". The phonemic transcription treats every instance of and as and , respectively. The phonetic transcription is a fairly narrow transcription of the educated northern accent. The speaker transcribed in the narrow transcription is 62 years old, and he is reading in a colloquial style. Aspiration, glottal stops and devoicing of the lenes after fortes are not transcribed. The audio file contains the whole fable, and that it was recorded by a much younger speaker.
Standard German phonology | Sample
Greet followed this with other productions at the Adelphi in which many of the same cast members appeared.
Little Hans Andersen | Introduction
Tryggve Andersen (27 September 1866 – 10 April 1920) was a Norwegian novelist, poet and story writer.
Tryggve Andersen | Introduction
He edited and translated into German some of Ludvig Holberg's comedies under the title of ""Dänische Schaubühne"" (1885–87), and translated other Danish writings in ""Nordische Bibliothek"" (1889–91). He did much toward the introduction of Henrik Ibsen in Germany.
Julius Hoffory | Works
The plot of the song comes from the Danish folk-ballad "Elveskud". In 1842 Gade wrote "Agnete og Havfruerne" for solo, female choir and orchestra with text by Hans Christian Andersen, and the same Andersen had in 1846 premiered the opera "Liden Kirsten" with music by Gade's father-in-law J. P. E. Hartmann. Both were inspired by Danish folksongs. This may have encouraged Gade to try his hand at the same set of motifs with a major concert piece. The earliest information on "Elverskud" is a mention in a letter from Gade in 1849, in which he wrote that he had allowed Hans Christian Andersen to prepare a text.
Elverskud | Origins
And as he read, everything I was looking at—the dazzling sails, the sea, the coast of Sweden, the bright sky—was set ablaze as the sun went down. It was as if nature itself were blushing with delight at the sound of Hans Christian Andersen's voice." Andersen managed to read aloud "The Most Incredible Thing" at least seven times within a matter of days. The readings began before a circle of admirers at the home of the Koch family on the day the tale was finished. Over the next several days, he visited the homes of several others including the Hartmanns, the Collins, the Thieles, and the Melchiors.
The Most Incredible Thing | Publication history
Hans Aanrud (3 September 1863 – 11 January 1953) was a Norwegian author. He wrote plays, poetry, and stories depicting rural life in his native Gudbrandsdal, Norway.
Hans Aanrud | Introduction
The original cross fell into the sea in a landslide in 1905, but a new cross stands close by today. It is also believed that the large hollow willow beside the Swiss House could have inspired him to write story of The Tinderbox.
Liselund | The Hans Christian Andersen connection
To date, there has been little literary production in the language. The most notable works are a poem by Jon Mirande entitled "Kama-goli" in his 1997 anthology "Orhoituz" and the 1999 novel "Agirre zaharraren kartzelaldi berriak" by Koldo Izagirre Urreaga with the main character using the language.
Erromintxela language | Literary production
Andersen's earliest tales were published without illustrations, but in 1849, his popularity was growing and a new, five volume collection of his tales was published with 125 illustrations by Pedersen. The Pedersen illustrations found favor with the author, and, in Denmark today, are considered inseparable from the fairy tales in the same way that the John Tenniel illustrations are for Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" or Quentin Blake illustrations are for Roald Dahl's children's books. Woodcuts from Pedersen's drawings were first produced for a German edition of the tales published by Carl B. Lorck in Leipzig. Andersen's Danish publisher, C.A.
Vilhelm Pedersen | Hans Christian Andersen illustrations
Overjoyed by the news, Hans asks that his credit be changed from "Hans, the cobbler" to "Hans Christian Andersen" and runs down the street singing his full name with pride.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
Koestler wrote his books in German up to 1940, but then wrote only in English. ("L'Espagne ensanglantée" was translated into French from German.)
Arthur Koestler | Languages
He arrived in Rome in October 1834. Andersen's travels in Italy were reflected in his first novel, a fictionalized autobiography titled "The Improvisatore" (), published in 1835 to instant acclaim.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early work
Thomas Vilhelm Pedersen (28 January 1820 – 13 March 1859) was a Danish painter and illustrator who is above all remembered for his illustrations for fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. He was the first artist to illustrate Andersen's works. His drawings were converted into wood prints and used in the Danish and German editions.
Vilhelm Pedersen | Introduction
This must have been "a glorious piece of courtly panegyrics".
Þjóðólfr Arnórsson | Works
Fritz Aagesen knows how to tell a story. The landscape and people function together in a concise and vibrant style that allows just enough time to portray the situation so that the reader can experience it." Aagesen is buried at Elvestrand Cemetery in Tromsø.
Fritz Aagesen | Introduction
Robert's translations at Haakon's commission speak to the king's role in spreading French and Arthurian material throughout Scandinavia. The wide influence of "Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar" is especially apparent in Iceland, where it served as the basis for the ballad "Tristrams kvæði" and the prose adaptation "Saga af Tristram ok ĺsodd".
Brother Robert | Introduction
A linguistic dictionary was generated by the computer, which included grammatical information on each segment.
Francis Andersen | Work
Seuss into rhythmical Latin verse.
Terence Tunberg | Introduction
The "Compendiosa Institutio Linguæ Ebraicae" was a Hebrew grammar. He became professor of Greek and Oriental languages and of theology at the University of Giessen.
Christoph Helvig | Introduction