Skrivestedet (The Writing Place)
Marianne Wirenfeldt Asmussen and Kurt Rodahl Hoppe
Forlaget Wunderbuck
Danish
Hardcover
Edition of 1000
160 pages
248 x 305 mm
2015
ISBN 9788799756278
Writers often write their words in selected places. Most write in many random places, very few work throughout their lives in the same place. Writing sites, you could call them. Karen Blixen is one of very few authors who has two geographical locations inextricably linked to her name: Kenya and Denmark. Both places are life-giving sources for her work. Both places have left their mark directly and indirectly in the books, but virtually all of her literary work was created in the study at Rungstedlund. It became her place – the place of writing.
The book’s author Marianne Wirenfeldt Asmussen, together with photographer Kurt Rodahl Hoppe, has visited all the places, all the details in Karen Blixen’s houses in Kenya and Denmark, and thus seeks to uncover and enforce the places’ significance, uniqueness and beauty. Occasionally, the new color images are brought into dialogue with old black-and-white photographs from the time Blixen was there, or they are in some places accompanied by quotes from the authorship.
About the Artist
Marianne Wirenfeldt Asmussen (b. 1945) is an art historian and author, founder and former director of the Karen Blixen Museum at Rungstedlund.
Kurt Rodahl Hoppe is a very dedicated photographer based in Copenhagen, Denmark . Architecture, people and landscapes are among his favourite subjects. However, Hoppe has dealt with almost all aspects of photography and works for a long list of Scandinavian clients. In 2015 Hoppe was invited by the City of Beijing to cover the changes of the city.
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About the Publisher
The publishing house Wunderbuch was founded by publisher and historian of ideas Klaus Gjørup. Attached to the publishing house is an advisory committee consisting of the publisher and prominent researchers, writers and artists.
The genres vary between photo and art books, fiction, poetry, philosophy and the history of ideas. Both Danish and translated titles. The publisher does not want to deceive readers that there are shortcuts to complicated topics. Commercial keys must not impede quality. Sometimes reading requires patience and hard work, other times it is more straightforward.
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