Culture Round-Up: The idea that TV kills is an old chestnut for good reason
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The most popular show on Netflix in Denmark right now pays homage to some kind of children’s game.
But no, it’s not the Korean show ‘Squid Game’, which talks about challenges based on playground activities in which losers are horribly killed.
Danish series “Kastanjemanden” (“The Chestnut Man”), a six-part serial killer based on the debut novel by Søren Sveistrup, the creator of “Forbrydelsen” (‘The Killing’).
With strong reviews emerging all over the world, it’s still too early for the series to achieve a metacritic score, but it’s clear that âKastanjemandenâ is proving popular with fans and critics – especially Copenhageners, as the Most of the series was shot. in the capital to go about their daily business.
What then?
Starring Danica Curcic and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, the first episode raises questions from the start, including who the girl in the opening sequence is, which forest is the opening credits sequence in, which suburb of Greater Copenhagen is this in. woman was murdered. and why do Danish children make scary men out of chestnuts and then sing scary songs about them?
The biggest mystery, however, concerns the name of the show, as several foreign websites seem to suggest (with hygge in mind no doubt) that viewers should roast a few chestnuts while watching it, unaware that their poor translation could be problematic.
The nuts shown are not kastanje but hestekastanie (chestnuts), so reviews inadvertently advise viewers to poison themselves.
Whodunnit, you might ask. Well the real killer is the show itself.
Denmark takes silver at chefs’ World Cup
A Danish team won silver at this year’s Bocuse D’Or, the chefs’ world cup. Ronni Vexøe Mortensen and his assistant Sebastian Holberg were only beaten by France, with Norway third – the same team that beat Denmark at Bocuse d’Or Europe earlier this year. Mortensen and Holberg, who have worked together for three years, are believed to have practiced their menu more than 100 times. They were supervised by chef Géranium Rasmus Kofoed, himself a winner in 2011 after two previous steps on the podium. Denmark were reigning champions after Kenneth Toft-Hansen’s triumph in 2019.
Belarusian author receives 2021 Sonning Prize
Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Sonning Prize 2021, a biennial Danish award that recognizes significant contributions to culture. It was first presented in 1950 to Winston Churchill. The panel said it mainly chose Alexievich out of respect for “The Story of the Red Man,” a five-book series published between 1985 and 2013, rich in testimonies from citizens of the former Soviet Union. “The war has no female face” (1985), “The last witnesses”, 1985), “The zinc boys” (1989), “Prayer for Chernobyl” (1997) and “Secondhand time” (2013) have been translated into 52 languages, and in 2015 their author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Alexievich received 1 million crowns in a ceremony at the University of Copenhagen on Thursday, September 23. Since 1950, many famous people have won the award, including Laurence Olivier (1966), Ingmar bergman (1989), Günter Grass (1996) and Lars von Trier (2018).
Queen meets Queen at Bakken Review Lounge
Some pretty charming video footage (see end of story and below for two different clips) tour in Denmark of 80-year-old actor Ulf Pilgaard’s latest performance as Queen Margrethe at Cirkusrevyen in Bakken – a role he has played since 1986. Pilgaard traditionally ends the show with the line “Gud bevare Danmark” (God preserve Denmark) – the same line the monarch uses at the end of his New Year’s speech – and it is at that moment that Queen Margrethe emerged to surprise everyone by handing the actor a silver ashtray.
In Search of a Song: Lennon and Ono footage sale exceeds expectations
The original audio cassette recording of a 1970 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Jutland, where the famous couple reunited with Ono’s ex-husband and daughter, sold last week for 370,000 crowns by Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers. The lot had been estimated at 200,000-300,000 crowns, but there was unprecedented global interest, according to Bruun Rasmussen’s Ralph Lexner, and a foreign buyer came out triumphant. In addition to the tape, original photos taken by the interviewers, four local school children, were included, as well as a copy of the school magazine in which the interview was published. The 33 minute audio featured Lennon singing the songs “Give Peace a Chance”. and the new ‘Radio Peace’.
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