Danish Club has spoken with Anne Sophia Hermansen who is one of the country's most prominent opinion makers and until recently cultural editor at Berlingske. Today she is a cultural commentator for the newspaper and is also working on a book about the spirit of the times. She has a master's degree in literary history and philosophy and is a member of the board of Museum Kolding.
May I say Koldinghus, even though it is a castle? I love that one has not tried to recreate the castle as it looked before it burned, but preserved it as a ruin so one can sense the contours of the original building. Among other things. spiral staircases and star-shaped chandeliers have been inserted, where there were once vaults in the ceiling. It is a place that is loved - as opposed to Kronborg, which is subjected to a scandalous treatment and unfortunately looks like an estate of a vampire. Another absolutely historic house is Knud Rasmussen's house in Hundested. Here he wrote about his expeditions. It looks like a house that may well attract a hobbit as a tenant.
Because it is not healthy for us to believe that everything begins and ends with us. There are many who have loved, suffered, fought, built, thought, written and discovered the world before us. Most of them have also done something we can learn from. The cultural history is, by the way, some of the sexiest there is.
I think we should keep an eye on KHR Architects, because they repeatedly create disasters in the public space, most recently Østerport II, which looks like a clone between a Norwegian ferry and a Stormtropper and has again and again been named Copenhagen's eyebrow no. 1. The same architectural firm was responsible for the HT terminal, which also had to be operated on as an evil tumor on Rådhuspladsen. Maybe they can do accidents one more time? I fear it.
If I were Joy Mogensen, I would put the administration of Nyborg Castle, Kronborg and Frederiksborg Castle under the Royal Collection, which already brings together Rosenborg, Koldinghus and Amalienborg. Then changing exhibitions could wander between the castles and one could only ensure the same high level of quality and dissemination in all places. It may be that we are a small country, but we are a small country with a very long history, and I can not imagine anything more exciting, decadent, sensational, thoughtful, colorful and political than the story of our royal line, which also is the story of us. But at Kronborg, everything is completely degenerate, and Nyborg also seems like a place that sails, which is sad.
Freedom. I resigned at my own request as cultural editor at Berlingske, because I was about to perish in hamster wheels and meetings and brain-dead KPIs. I am not done being a leader, but right now I thrive on writing and thinking freely. And work when it suits me, which is often in the evenings and on weekends.
