September

15-24. – I’m going Glocal.  Global + Local.

Artists from 4 different countries study the effects of globalization

in their immediate environment and reflect on it. The exhibition opens

at 6 pm with a performance. It will remain open till the 24th then it will

go to Romania. For more information click: 

www.glocalproject.blogspot.com.

Hungarian films in Denmark in September

adaptation of  Imre Kertesz' novel “Fateless” in the

Danish cinemas from 1st October Nazisim is spreading in Europe and when it

reaches Hungary the 14-year-old Gyurka is captured and sent from one

concentration camp to another.  The boy survives against all odds but

the horrors leave him indifferent and distant in a ruined world. The

Hungarian director, Lajos Koltai directed the young Marcell Nagy in the

leading role as Gyorgy Koves.

“Fateless” is very close to what one can call a masterpiece with its

frightening beauty and a moving  tribute to the indomitability of the

human spirit.  (Ebbe Iversen)

www.fateless.co.uk.

23.-  Istvan Szabo at the Copenhagen Film Festival

The great Hungarian director István Szabó  is giving a lecture at the

Holmen Film Institute on Saturday 1.30-4.30 pm. with the producer János

Rózsa.  After directing films in English like  Sunshine (1999) with

Ralph Fiennes and Being Julia (2004) with Anette Bening,  Istvan Szabo

returned to the Hungaran scene with the drama Relatives (2006). The

film is about a young idealistic man who gets first hand  experience of

how easily power corrupts people. Szabo dealt with this political topic 

before at his Oscar winning Mephisto(1981).  The producer János Rózsa 

is one of the most well known Hungarian directors. Parts of the  film

will be shown  and analysed at the lecture and it will be possible to discuss

 its very up-to-date topic with the director.The following films will be shown

 at the Copenhagen Film Festival:

Relatives (director: István Szabó)

Just Sex and Nothing Else (director: Krisztina Goda) White Palm

(director: Szabolcs Hajdu) Fresh Air (director:)

25th Design in Motion

The Design Week is organised for the third time this year with

exhibitions, design film days, films about fashion, architecture and interior design.

Design Tours are arranged in Budapest with the UV3 tram that is due to

be taken out of service next year.  The films will be shown in the

Gödör Klub at Erzsebet ter. Denmark contributes with a film about

Danish Design courtesy of the Danish Design Centre of Copenhagen and

the Danish Cultural Institute of Hungary.

www.designterminal.hu www.godorklub.hu The Design Week finishes 2nd

October

26th. - European Language Day.

The continuation of the European project: Fairy Tales before take-off,

which involves 8 countries including Denmark, the Goethe Institute at

Raday u 58, Budapest, invites all to a public reading and viewing of fairy tales .

Everybody is welcome. 

28-29. - Conference at the Italian Cultural Institute

In the autumn of 2006 we commemorate the 50 year

anniversary of the uprising in Hungary.

The Italian Cultural Institute is arranging a conference titled “1956

and Hungary” 28-29 September. The topics of the conference are the

memories of the eye witnesses and the search for freedom and democracy.

The conference is arranged by Hungarian and foreign institutions and   

representatives and the Hungarian president will open it. Photos, books

and films will be shown at the conference. The Danish diplomat,

historian and author  Bo Lidegaard who is invited by the Danish Embassy 

and the Danish Cultural Institute will talk about the diplomat Poul

Bang-Jensen. He played a special role in interrogating Hungarians after

1956 and is considered a hero in Hungary. The bust of Bang-Jensen is in

the foyer of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and there is a

monument erected to him at the Heroes Cemetery in Budapest.

 www.1956andHungary.hu

October

1st world exhibition of artists of hungarian origin living in the west untill

31.10.

3rd-  Textile Exhibition at the Danish Cultural Institute

Young artists from the  Kecskemét  Textile Workshop exhibit

their works at the Institute. The exhibition opens on the 3rd at 6 pm

by the cultural historian Hevig Dvorszky

3rd. – Carl Nielsen

We commemorate the 75-year anniversary of the death of

the great Danish Composer

The institute arranges a concert of the works of Carl Nielsen

on the 22 November.

10th.-  Danish courses restart at the Institute.   

enrolment by email, for more information visit our website                        

www.dankultura.org

14th.– The orchestra of the Danish Radio is playing in the Palace of Arts.

The program is ”La Clemenza di Tito”, the Mozart opera is played as a concert at7 pm.

The conductor is Adam Fischer with Henriette Bonde-Hansen as Servilia.

The Hungarian Radio will broadcast the concert. The orchestra of the Danish Radio

successfully performed it this spring at the grand hall of the Musical Academy of Budapest

with the Mozart opera”Il re Pastore”.

19 th.- Exhibition and lectures in Kecskemét.

The Danish Cultural Institute houses the exhibition showing memorabilia

of Hungarian refugees in Denmark, showing books, newspaper articles,

letters and photos. Films will be shown about the Danish heroes the

diplomat Bang-Jensen and Red  Cross worker  Ole Lippmann. The

exhibition will be opened by  András Nagy, who wrote a book about 

Bang-Jensen. Historians are invited to discuss the individual against the totalitarian state.

26.- The Hungarian Revolution and uprising of 1956 and

its impact today.

The Hungarian Embassy and the Danish Cultural Institute organizes a

meeting at St Petri Church in Copenhagen at 5.20 pm to commemorate the

50 years anniversary of the '56 uprising.  Lectures include Béla

Kiraly, colonel of the Home Guard, the author András Nagy and author

and historian Bo Lidegaard. The chairpersons are Troels Lund Poulsen,

and  Mogens Lykketoft.  For more information visit  www. dankultur.dk.

31. 11.30 pm – Theme evening on DR 2. ”In the footsteps of Ole Lippmanns”.

DR 2 filmed a Documentary about the uprising in Hungary in 1956 The

Danish TV2 channel shot a documentary in Budapest and Kecskemét about

the'56 uprising between 4-8 September. The TV channel will arrange a theme

evening for the 50th anniversary of the uprising.  The reporter

Christoffer Emil Bruun  and  the author Niels Barfoed who wrote Ole

Lippmann's biography visited Budapest and drove around in an old jeep

following in the footsteps of the Danish red cross worker. They filmed

at the orthopaedic hospital where Ole Lippmann set up his special “rolling hospital”.

The film touches on the Bang-Jensen topic too and several prominent

people were interviewed like the Hungarian historian and  author 

András Nagy who wrote a book about  Bang-Jensen.  Béla Kiraly was also

interviewed, the 95 year old professor and ex-colonel of the Home

Guards, who, even though he was sentenced to death 9 times, is still

alive.The Danish Cultural Institute played an important role in finding the right

interview   subjects  and arranging and interpreting the interviews in

Budapest and in Kecskemét.  The film will be shown at the Institute

some time in the future.

November

5th- The Danish Documentary at the VERZIO film festival.

The Danish Cultural Institute contributed to the viewings of two

documentaries at the  Central European University’s documentary

festival. The theme is Human Rights.

”The Swenkas” (directed by Jeppe Rønde, Danmark/South Africa 2004.

”The Swenkas” are a group of Zulus who take part in a beauty contest every

Saturday evening in a cellar called ”The Hall”. They exchange their

work clothes for expensive outfits and try to convince the jury of

their beauty. The prize is a whole cow for Christmas.

The other film is ”Prostitution behind the veil”(Nahid Persson,

Denmark/Iran/Sweden 2004, 58 minutes) Minna and Fariba are neighbours

in a city in Iran. They are also prostitutes and addicts. Minna and

Fariba, sometimes even dragging along their children, have to search

for men every evening for a short marriage which makes it possible for

them to have sex without breaking the law. These  so called Sighe

marriages can last between 2 hours and 99 years and only a priest can

annul them on the spot. More information about times and venues will be

in the program section of the site.

22nd. – Carl Nielsen concert and exhibition at the Petöfi Museum 7.00 pm

www.vaupel.dk

The Danish soprano Kirsten Vaupel will sing Carl Nielsen pieces. 

Kristian Buhl-Mortensen, a guitarist, and three Hungarian musicians will accompany her.

Kirsten Vaupel was educated at the Vienna Conservatory between 1964 –

1968 and has been working with  Kristian Buhl-Mortensen since 1983

giving private and public performances of church and chamber music and

holding courses. Their repertoire includes hundreds of songs which have been released on three CDs.

Furthermore a  Carl Nielsen exhibition will be shown which is on loan

from the Odense City Museum. More information about times and venues

will be in the program section of the site.

December

7. - Nordic Art Show opens in the Mücsarnok-Art Gallery, Budapest.

Contemporary nordic art from the last 15 years at

Mücsarnok Art Gallery. The Danish Cultural Institute plans to invite

film directors in connection with the exhibition.

The program is "La Clemenza di Tito", the Mozart opera is played as a concert

at 7 pm.