This Year’s Themes
Once again, Bogforum explores a wide range of topics through conversations, events and music, delving into the things that occupy our minds, touch our hearts and shape our everyday lives. Here’s a glimpse of some of the themes we’ll be exploring this year.
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ORIGINS
Where do we come from, and where do we belong? On Saturday at Perspektivscenen, Duncan Wiese and Rúni Weihe come together for a conversation about growing up and masculinity, drawing on Drenge and Boys boys boys.
On Sunday at Litteraturscenen, Kim Leine and Eva Tind explore family roots and belonging through their own works. Olavs Hus follows Leine’s Norwegian family through generations shaped by landscape, poverty, religion, sex and the dream of something more. In Manden der fik vinger, Eva Tind portrays a queer royal porcelain painter and ornithologist who, despite being rejected by his family, goes on to achieve international recognition.
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MUSIC
Pernille Rosendahl og Kira Skov har begge levet et liv med musikken tæt på. I Lille kæmper fortæller Pernille Rosendahl personligt om livet på de skrå brædder og arbejdsforholdene i branchen. Mød hende på Temascenen fredag. Søndag på samme scene ser Kira Skov i Liv forladt tilbage på en turbulent opvækst, årene som omrejsende musiker og sorgen efter sin mands død.
Også Peter Sommer tager udgangspunkt i sit eget musikalske liv, når han søndag på Store Scene fortæller om Sort på hvidt akkompagneret af pianist Palle Hjorth. Og på Balkonscenen samme dag mødes litteratur og musik, når Vokalselskabet FIRE markerer 50-året for Tove Ditlevsens død med et koncertprogram baseret på hendes tekster.
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CHANGING TIMES
The world is changing fast, politically, technologically and on a human level. On Friday at Temascenen, Roald Als and Søs Marie Serup take the audience on a journey through politics and recent history. On Saturday, the programme turns to the changing world order, technology and political life.
At Vidensscenen, Isabel Bramsen and Flemming Splidsboel explore the prospects for peace and the fault lines shaping our world, drawing on Fredens logik – i verden og hverdagen and En verden i stykker. Opbruddets tid. Meanwhile, Ulla Terkelsen (Sidste udkald) joins Martin Krasnik for a conversation about whether Europe can stand on its own.
Later that day, Anders Søgaard and Christiane Vejlø turn their attention to artificial intelligence and the question of how we can ensure that humans remain more important than machines. At Ny Scene, Runa Lily Luth, Ulrikke Bak and Mikkel Rosengaard explore how the internet shapes our thoughts and desires, while at Temascenen, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen draws on Udvalgte kolbøtter to talk about power, political battles, and what it means to fall and get back up again.
On Sunday at Perspektivscenen, Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus from Liberties join Martin Krasnik, author of Den skinnende by, for a conversation about the future of US-European relations. The same day at Vidensscenen, Mirco Reimer-Elster and Steffen Kretz take a closer look at a changing United States and an emerging new world order.
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THE SERIES
This year sees the release of the final, long-awaited volume in Maren Uthaug’s acclaimed %-trilogy. Hear more about 1% when the author takes to Store Scene with Anne Sophia Hermansen on Saturday.
Later that day on the same stage, you can meet Benjamin Koppel, whose sweeping saga of the Koppelman family is fortunately far from over, continuing with its next instalment. Håbets klang takes us back to the time before the World Wars, to a shtetl in what is now the Czech Republic, before his grandmother Bruche emigrated to Denmark.
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Climate & Environment
Bogforum’s new stage, Lysningen, is dedicated to conversations about climate, the environment, sustainability and nature. Here, you can meet Camilla Skov, Emma Holten, Mathilde Walter Clark, Bente Klarlund, Connie Hedegaard, Theis Ørntoft, Sofie Linde, Josephine Klougart, Morten D.D., Michael Stoltze and Lea Korsgaard.
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love and relationships take many forms at this year’s Bogforum. On Saturday at Litteraturscenen, you can meet Asta Olivia Nordenhof, who continues her major novel series about the Scandinavian Star with Maria, Atlantis, exploring love, community and capitalism.
The same day at Temascenen, Sørine Gotfredsen draws on literature to explore what love really means, while Caroline Albertine Minor and Julia Maria Gieysztor Bertelsen come together at Perspektivscenen for a conversation about reading, work and desire, drawing on Den forelskede ven and Det Store År.
At Balkonscenen, things take a more playful turn. On Friday, romance and romantasy expert Nikoline Rosenbjerg joins Politiken’s Felix Thorsen Katzenelson to turn romance and romantasy novels into an advice column filled with dilemmas of the heart. On Saturday, it’s quiz time as Nikoline Rosenbjerg puts Sarah von Essen and Victoria Olsen to the test on some of the most popular sex scenes in films, books and songs.
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BEING HUMAN
How do we live a good life, in our bodies, in our minds, and when life gets tough? On Saturday at Temascenen, Bente Klarlund explores the idea of strength as something that goes beyond muscles and physical fitness. Drawing on Stærk, she shares her perspective on the habits that can strengthen both body and mind.
On Sunday at Vidensscenen, Svend Brinkmann invites us into De døde filosoffers klub, where Michel Foucault, bell hooks and Ludwig Wittgenstein are brought back to life through Mikkel Thorup, Mia Rendix and Anders Søgaard to help us navigate some of life’s biggest questions.
Also on Sunday at Temascenen, Anne Hjernøe draws on Hvis jeg kan gøre noget as she shares her experience of losing her husband of 31 years.
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Explore This Year's Programme
Dive into this year’s programme and discover hundreds of events across genres, themes and age groups.