Theatre collection

Start by searching Mediestream. If you can not find the review there, it is because the newspaper is not digitised. Instead, read reviews on microfilm at the Reading Room in The Black Diamond, Copenhagen or in the microfilm readers on Victor Albecks Vej, Aarhus.

In 2008, Gentofte Hovedbibliotek donated a very large collection of clippings of theatre reviews collected from 1950-2000. The clippings are arranged alphabetically by performance title and are distributed in 70 index boxes with approximately 80 performance envelopes in each. The material is arranged in two main groups:

1. drama and ballet performances and
2. opera and musical performances.

The boxes can be ordered for use at the Research Reading Room in The Black Diamond, Copenhagen in the library system by typing 'Udklipssamling' in the search field.

Both the manuscript collection and the theatre collection have scrapbooks from a number of theatres.

Blog reviews are archived in the netarkivet.

Can be under the individual institution's archive or under key people's archive.

We received a large collection from the Theater Museum in 2012.

The material is primarily in the manuscript collection and the theatre collection and is searchable in the library system.

The majority of letters to and from performing artists are found in the manuscript collection and the theatre collection.

Check out our guide How to find letters for more information.

Available in both the theatre collection, the manuscript collection, the map collection and the prints and photographs collection. The photographs in the map collection and the prints and photographs collection are partly registered in the library system.

Below is a list of relevant sub-collections.

• Holger Damgaard's (1870-1940) theatre photographs: Stage photographs from Copenhagen theatres taken by Holger Damgaard 1909-1940. Organised after theatres.
• Klaus Lindewald (1935-1986). Extensive collection of positives and negatives from Lindewald's work as a theatre photographer at a number of theatres in Copenhagen. The photographs depict both the work prior to the performances and the final result on stage. Positives and contact prints are archived under the respective theatres, alphabetically by performance (including Det Ny Teater, Gladsaxe Teater, Folketeatret, Det Danske Teater).
• HJ Mydtskov (1887-1973), Jørgen Mydtskov (1931-2011) and Rigmor Mydtskov (1925-2010). Theatre photographs from the period 1931-1964 taken by HJ Mydtskov and his son Jørgen Mydtskov with alphabetical registrant.
• The Royal Danish Opera. Discarded stage photographs from the Royal Danish Opera's archive approximately 1930-1965. Organised after performances.
• Danish photographs and theatre decorations. Object pictures, scrapbooks, puppet theatre. Registrant for Alfred Jacobsen's publications can be found.
• The Theatre Museum's collection. Photos from a number of performances at Danish theatres:
  • Café Teatret (1969-78, including from the French Studio Scene and the drama school),
  • Casino (1916-19),
  • Dansk Skolescene (slide from Thomas P. Hjejle 1924-38),
  • Helsingør Sommerteater (1914-49),
  • The Royal Danish Opera (1904-60, including scenography and decoration photos and a number of ballet pictures),
  • Det Ny Scala (1966-72),
  • Det Ny Teater (1908-27),
  • Folketeatret (ca. 1912-30),
  • Jørgen Blaksted Turneen (1970-98),
  • Nørrebro (1980erne),
  • Odense Teater (1896-1935),
  • Rialto (1980-2005),
  • Scala (1970-83),
  • Aarhus (1952-63)
  • as well as individual performances at various theatres

You can search for the material from the Theatre Museum in the library system by searching with the name of the theatre and "Theatre Museum" and with a delimitation to the prints and photographs collection.

Find theatre photographs and drawings.

The miscellaneous collection in the prints and photographs collection includes stage and scenery photographs (see for example also Danish photographs and puppet theatre decorations), stage and grandstand artists (not identifiable) and theatre posters (theatre posters in general can also be found in the pamphlets and corporate publications collection).

Material from the collection of prints and photographs can be ordered via Ask the library.

You can find the digitised material in our Digital collections.

Available in the theatre collection. Larger sub-collections include Copenhagen International Theatre with especially new circus and experimental theatre as well as the Dance Archive.

You can see the material at the Research Reading Room in The Black Diamond, Copenhagen.

The material is ordered for review at the Research Reading Room by writing to Ask the library. Please provide as much information as possible.

At the Research reading room in The Black Diamond, Copenhagen, you can listen to performance recordings made by Knud Hegermann-Lindencrone in the period 1948-1988. You do not need to book an appointment. All you have to do is show up.

Excerpts from the collection have previously been published by Udgiverselskabet Hegermann-Lindencrone.

Get an overview of Hegerman-Lindencrone's audio recordings in our overview.

Remember to clear the rights if you want to use the recordings in a context other than ours.

If you have a specific, research-based need for access to material that was previously available on larm.fm, for example recordings of radio plays, please contact us and we will do our best to help you.

Available in the pamphlet and ephemera collection, the map collection and the prints and photographs collection.

The posters are often unregistered, so if it is not possible to find them in the library system, you can write to us.

Found primarily in the pamphlet and ephemera collection.

The material is only partially registered, so you can not find everything we have in the library system.

Contact us, if you do not find what you are looking for.

Located across the library's collections. Search for the title in the library system and delimit to "books".

Located under various archives across the collections.

You can search by artist, institution or performance name in the library system.

We have digitised a large part of our material with opera and music for theatre performances, which you can find here:

• Danish Theatre Music - approximately 1750-1900
• August Bournonville's ballets - printed notes from the 19th century
• Copenhagen Summer Revues 1876-1900 - sheet music and lyrics

Found primarily in the theatre collection, but they are also found in the manuscript collection.

At the Research Reading Room in The Black Diamond, Copenhagen, there are approximately 500 theatre manuscripts, the so-called study collection, which can be used in the reading room without reserving the material beforehand.

It appears in the entry in the library system whether a manuscript is available in the reading room or must be ordered. Remember to delimit the search to "manuscripts" as material.