Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish:[kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leɡ̊sn̩]; 17 April 1885– 7 September 1962),néeKaren Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen nameIsak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, particularly in Denmark.
Karen Dinesen was born in the manor house of Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen, the daughter of Ingeborg (née Westenholz 1856-1939), and Wilhelm Dinesen, a writer and army officer . Her younger brother, Thomas Dinesen, grew up to win the Victoria Cross in the First World War. Her mother Ingeborg came from a wealthy Unitarian bourgeois merchant family. Ingeborg's mother was Mary Lucinde Westenholz. From August 1872 to December 1873, Wilhelm Dinesen had lived among the Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin, where he fathered a daughter, who was born after his return to Denmark. Wilhelm Dinesen hanged himself on 28 March 1895 after having conceived a child (Else Ulla Elida Spange) with handmaid Anna Rasmussen, out of wedlock and thus being unable to fulfill his promise to Mama Mary to stay faithful to Ingeborg, when Karen was ten. He suffered from syphilis which resulted in bouts of deep depression.
The Karen Blixen Museum, located 10km outside of Nairobi, Kenya, "at the foot of the Ngong Hills", is the former African home of Danish author Karen Blixen, famous for her book Out of Africa which chronicles life at the estate.
History
Built in 1912 by the Swedish engineer Åke Sjögren, the bungalow-style house was bought by Karen Blixen and her then-husband, Baron Bror von Blixen Fincke in 1917. While she separated from her husband in 1921, Blixen lived at the house in what was then British East Africa and ran a large coffee plantation on the grounds until she returned to Denmark 1931. Her life here is chronicled in Blixen's most famous book, Out of Africa, as well as her book Shadows of the Grass.
The house was later donated by the Danish government in 1964 to the new Kenyan government as an independence gift. The house opened to the public in 1986 as one of Kenya's national museums in 1986 following the popularity of the 1985 movie, Out of Africa. (However, this house was not used for the filming of Out of Africa, as the pictures were taken in her first farmhouse, Mbagathi, nearby, where she lived between 1914 and 1917.) Nowadays the museum is situated in the upscale Nairobi suburb of "Karen," a town that was created by the parcelling out of the coffee farm's land after Blixen's return to Denmark.
Rungstedlund, also known as the Karen Blixen Museum, is a country house in Rungsted on the Øresund coast just north of Copenhagen, Denmark, notable for its association with the author Karen Blixen, who lived there for most of her life. She was born on the estate in 1885, and returned there after her years in Kenya, chronicled in her book Out of Africa, to do most of her writings. The property is today managed by the Rungstedlund Foundation as an writer's house museum.
History
The property traces its history back to 1520 when it was owned by the Crown. The oldest part of the current house dates from about 1680 when it was a combined inn and agricultural estate. Notable guests who stayed at the inn include Ludvig Holberg and Johannes Ewald. Ewald lived there from 1773 to 1775 and wrote many of his poems, including The Delights Of Rungsted. An Ode. The locale also inspired him for The Hishermen, a singspiele remembered for Kong Christian stod ved højen mast, the Danish royal anthem.
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The Karen Blixen Museum, located 10 km outside of Nairobi, Kenya, "at the foot of the Ngong Hills", is the former African home of Danish author Karen Blixen, famous for her 1937 book Out of Africa which chronicles life at the estate.
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Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish:[kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leɡ̊sn̩]; 17 April 1885– 7 September 1962),néeKaren Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen nameIsak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, particularly in Denmark.
Karen Dinesen was born in the manor house of Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen, the daughter of Ingeborg (née Westenholz 1856-1939), and Wilhelm Dinesen, a writer and army officer . Her younger brother, Thomas Dinesen, grew up to win the Victoria Cross in the First World War. Her mother Ingeborg came from a wealthy Unitarian bourgeois merchant family. Ingeborg's mother was Mary Lucinde Westenholz. From August 1872 to December 1873, Wilhelm Dinesen had lived among the Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin, where he fathered a daughter, who was born after his return to Denmark. Wilhelm Dinesen hanged himself on 28 March 1895 after having conceived a child (Else Ulla Elida Spange) with handmaid Anna Rasmussen, out of wedlock and thus being unable to fulfill his promise to Mama Mary to stay faithful to Ingeborg, when Karen was ten. He suffered from syphilis which resulted in bouts of deep depression.
You’ll want to go to the Karen Blixen Museum, where the author of the book Out of Africa once lived, and here, if you are lucky, you’ll meet even more of our long-necked friends here.
The statement read ...Her Majesty, known for her chain-smoking and love of dachshunds, was seen last Monday as she attended the Rungstedlund Prize 2024 at the Karen Blixen Museum ... She is pictured at Karen Blixen Museum in Copenhagen in September ... .
She is pictured last week in at the Karen Blixen Museum in Copenhagen...Her Majesty, known for her chain-smoking and love of dachshunds, was last seen on Monday as she attended the Rungstedlund Prize 2024 at the Karen Blixen Museum.
She is pictured last week in at the Karen Blixen Museum in Copenhagen... She is pictured last week in at the Karen Blixen Museum in Copenhagen ... the Rungstedlund Prize 2024 at the Karen Blixen Museum.
She attended a multiple sclerosis conference at Copenhagen’s Bella Center on Wednesday and presented the Rungstedlund Prize at the Karen Blixen Museum earlier this week ... .
Volunteer at Oens Have, northern Europe’s largest urban garden, or the historic garden at the Karen Blixen Museum and enjoy a complimentary vegetarian meal or free museum admission, respectively.
...Karen Blixen in her famous book Out of Africa.Photo shows a variety of translation versions of "Out of Africa" inside the bookcase of the Karen Blixen Museum in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 19, 2022.
There is a small museum that includes a skull with a spike driven through the head ...Karen Blixen and a trio of trains, Denmark ... Finally, we wafted around Karen Blixen’s home (a mile from Rungsted Kyst St station) and final resting place.
You’ll want to go to the Karen Blixen Museum, where the author of the book Out of Africa once lived, and here, if you are lucky, you’ll meet even more of our long-necked friends here.