Queer letters in the Diamond
Experience or relive the unique, heartbreaking and deeply in love letters of the most important queers in Scandinavian cultural history brought to life by a number of fantastic actors.
The letter performance is a tribute to the handwritten, personal letter that is becoming a thing of the past. In reading, song and music, the unique feeling of receiving a letter's moving message is revived. Experience heartbreaking, beautiful, funny, touching, horrifying and deeply personal historical letters from the Royal Danish Library's collection.
The event is a re-enactment of the letter performance that ran in the spring of 2023.
Letters from Herman Bang, Selma Lagerlöf and others
The letter performance is organised in collaboration with the association LGBT+ Denmark, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. All the selected letters are on the experience of being queer at times when life was not easy. For the event, a number of actors will present letters from and to, among others, Herman Bang, Selma Lagerlöf and Hans Christian Andersen.
Participants
Musicians
Ginne Marker
Singer/songwriter and guitarist who, with her soft, jazzy sound, has left her mark on the Danish music landscape. In 2020, Ginne Marker received two Carl Awards for Talent of the Year and Jazz Composer of the Year and followed up with sold-out concerts throughout the country.
Aske Jacoby
Is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is the founder of several bands and the founder of the record label Giant Birch. In 2004, he received the distinguished Ken Gudman Award for his achievements in Danish music life.
Actors
Johannes Lilleøre
Johannes Lilleøre is a writer and actor. He graduated from the Acting School at Aarhus Theatre in 2001. He has, among other things, had roles in Grønnegård Teatret's summer performances "Som man behager" in 2002 and "Much ado about nothing" in 2003.
Morten Kirkskov
Actor, director, writer and theatre director. In addition to his own artistic work, he is acting director at the Royal Danish Theatre.
Thomas Levine
Actor and playwright. Has also been artistic director at Teater Grob since 2005 and theatre director of Aveny-T from 2022.
May Lifschitz
Started her career in front of the camera as a 16-year-old as a model and has since appeared as an actor in a number of TV series, e.g. internationally in Netflix's Warrior Nun and most recently in DR's Orkestret.
Christine Sønderris
Graduated from the Acting School at Aarhus Theatre in 2009 and has participated in theatre productions of Hamlet, the TV series The Rain and made her film debut as the lead in Rasmus Kloster Bro's Cutterhead, for which she was nominated for a Bodil.
