LIVE in the Library Garden: Deniz Kiy, Ditlev Tamm, Lucky Lo and Rosalinde Mynster
We celebrate the open, free-minded city of Copenhagen in the historic library garden with music, statements and new poetry.
Royal Danish's successful summer stage LIVE in the Library Garden returns with lots of music, poetry and performance. Three Thursdays from late August to early September, you can meet actors, poets, speakers and musicians at the historic, secretive garden behind The Black Diamond in Copenhagen. Buy refreshments at the café's pop-up bar, and feel free to bring your own picnic blanket.
Over the past decades, openness and free spirit have become a landmark and symbol of our city, and it is precisely the free spirit of Copenhagen that will once again be the headline for the artists, poets, musicians and speakers you can meet in the garden behind The Black Diamond.
This year Royal Danish Library has taken the initiative to have new Danish poetry written as a response to the Copenhagen reality here and now. This afternoon, you can meet poet Deniz Kiy, law professor and historian Ditlev Tamm, Swedish song-writer Lucky Lo and actress Rosalinde Mynster.
Deniz Kiy
Deniz Kiy (1994), who graduated from The Danish Academy of Creative Writing in 2019, debuted in 2021 with the poetry collection Blue Eye (türkü). With this collection of poems, Deniz Kiy wants to create his own narrative as a counterweight to - as Kiy puts it - the narrative of the white public and its institutions of power about ethnic minorities. Thematically, Kiy's poems revolve around themes of alienation, love, sorrow, racism and internalised racism.
Ditlev Tamm
Law professor emeritus, legal historian, author and debater. Ditlevs Tamm has a versatile authorship behind him, which includes titles from Ligger goodt i maven, about the history of the founder of the food company Daloon; to Det Høje C, about the history of the conservative People's Party and most recently he is current with the book Skabt som mand og kvinde, about the French theologian and cross-dresser at the court of the Sun King, François-Timoléon de Choisy. The debate about gender and clothing is also the focus of DR's current programme Professor på høje hæle, which follows Ditlev Tamm and his investigation of phenomena and movements within gender, clothing and identity in Denmark and abroad.
Lucky Lo
Lucky Lo, Swedish multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Lo Ersare's alt-pop pseudonym, is like a game of stepping stones. She jumps between the familiar and the whimsical; the groovy and the unexpected. Lo is originally from Umeå in Sweden, but moved to Copenhagen in 2014 as a street musician who frequently visited the canals in Christianshavn with her instrument, the banjo. But the background in folk music is far from her only source of inspiration. Lucky Lo's alt-pop also draws from her wide-ranging musical interests in everything from free improvisation to Bulgarian vocal music. Lo is also influenced by the vibrant pop music coming from her second home, Japan, where she has spent quite a bit of time, as well as the DIY punk scene from her hometown in Sweden.
Rosalinde Mynster
Actor, playwright and artistic director of Teater Tugt. Rosalinde Mynster made her debut at the age of 16 in Niels Arden Oplev's 2008 film Worlds apart. In 2010, she starred opposite Thure Lindhardt in the comedy Sandheden om mænd, and in 2012 she appeared in Nikolaj Arcel's historical drama A Royal Affair. Her big break came with the role of Fie in TV 2's drama series Badehotellet.
Rosalinde Mynster has also appeared in theatre plays such as På Herrens mark at Teater Grob (2017) and in Rundt på gulvet (2011), Sommerdrenge (2014) and Landet som ikke er (2018) at Teatret ved Sorte Hest. With Teater I Akt, Rosalinde has also written the play Nosser, which was performed at Krudttønden in 2015. Most recently, you could see her in the films I Krig og Kærlighed (2018) & Christian IV - den sidste rejse (2018) and Amadeus at the Royal Danish Theatre (2019).
