Publication year 2026
Catalogue no. C.2033
Duration 7:30 minutes
En Stemning
(2025)
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(2025)
Publication year 2026
Catalogue no. C.2033
Duration 7:30 minutes
In many ways, Hans Christian Andersen led a double life. He was highly acclaimed and admired for his writing, yet at the same time led a lonely and almost unloved existence, filled with doubts about his own abilities and fears of illness and death. His diaries in particular offer an insight into his many worries, health problems and sleepless nights. There is no doubt that his fairy tales are loved all over the world; on the other hand, there is much speculation about his sexual life (or lack thereof), his hypochondriacal tendencies and inner conflicts. In this work, the poem En Stemning (An Atmosphere) serves as a framework. Individual words and phrases are drawn from the poem: “I can hear them singing” and “Perish”, which together form an underlying texture that casts the poem in a different light. They illustrate a kind of inner struggle in Andersen’s mind, where obsessive thoughts at times threaten to take over, and where idyll and chaos struggle, or perhaps more accurately coexist.