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Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen
Links
- Film and Karen Blixen
- YouTube: A
variety of interesting YouTube videos of Karen Blixen includes her
telling a story in the United States in 1959.
- Karen Blixen: Out of
this World. A 2005 documentary
film.*
- Karen Blixen: Out of this World: An
interview with director Marcus Mandal.
Denmark's M&M Productions have announced that shooting will begin
in 2005 on Karen Blixen's The
Angelic Avengers, a film
designed for an international audience. This will be a Jeff King
adaptation of the story with Suzanne Bier as director.
- A new film on Karen
Blixen's
life
as
a
youth
- Controversy
about Karen Blixen's failure to receive the Nobel Prize
- Sara Stambaugh
(1936-2002), author of The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of
Isak
Dinesen: A Feminist Reading.*
Wilhelm Dinesen, Karen Blixen's father
- Orson
Welles's
The Immortal Story: analysis by Adrian Danks of
the
film based on Isak Dinesen's story.
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- Lucifer's
Child, a play about Karen Blixen, was performed at Idaho
State University in 2003.
- Out of Africa or Lucifer's Child,
ballet by Flemming Flindt: music by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen: "Choreographer
Flemming Flindt opens Isak Dinesen's Pandora's box for Ballet SJ
Silicon Valley's 'Out of Africa'" by� Marianne Messina. [A
good,
descriptive
article
about
the
origin
of
the
ballet.
One
error
in
biographical
detail:
Karen
Blixen's
relationship
with
her
mother
was warm and dependent--not the "coldly religious"
relationship described.
Ingeborg Dinesen was liberal-thinking, open-minded, and affectionate,
and was the first Danish woman who ran for, and was elected to, a
parish (county) council.]
- British composer Andre Previn's song, "The Giraffes Go to
Hamburg"--based upon the anecdote related by Isak Dinesen in Out of Africa--was written for
soprano Ren�e Fleming in 2000.
- The
Music of James Wilson: "...his finest achievement is the two act
opera Grinning
at the Devil of 1985 to a text by Elsa Gress."
- The
Bond, symphonic poem with stage
action
in four scenes based upon Isak Dinesen's story "The Ring" by John von
Daler,
Librettist, and Bo Holten, Composer.
- Tanne,
a ballet choreographed by Warren Spears.
- Of
Tanne: a performance by Joan Gale (Joan Gale, distinguished
actress,
is now retired).
Did you know? Karen Blixen is the only
person, other than the royal family, ever to appear twice on Danish
postage
stamps (1949
and 1996).
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