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33 unusual facts about Hans Christian Andersen


Aarøsund

Hans Christian Andersen, the world-famous writer of fairy tales, noted his stays in Aarøsund in his travel diaries.

Albani Brewery

In 1989, it was marketed under its current name, honouring Hans Christian Andersen.

Arlene Rothlein

In 1969 she won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her role as 'The Girl' in The Poor Little Match Girl, a new work based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen.

Children's Digest

(Joe Namath was cover-featured in a 1969 issue, and Lew Alcindor, later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, also appeared on a cover.) Classic stories from such authors as Rudyard Kipling and Hans Christian Andersen were often printed.

Christian Hardy

The band covered children's classic "Inchworm" from Hans Christian Andersen for American Laundromat Records charity CD Sing Me To Sleep - Indie Lullabies, released worldwide on 18 May 2010.

Dua Libro

The sample texts include collections of model sentences, a translation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Shadow, some popular sayings, and two poems.

E. H. Wehnert

Among the many for which he furnished the drawings were Grimm's Fairy Tales (1853); Keats's Eve of St. Agnes (1856); Coleridge's Ancient Mariner (1857); The Pilgrim's Progress (1858); Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (1861); Robinson Crusoe (1862); and Edgar Allan Poe's Poetical Works (1865).

Edward Julius Detmold

Edward Detmold was painstaking in his work, missing deadlines so that a complete set of colour plates for Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales were never used by Hodder and remained unpublished.

Ernest and Clarence Iverson

The brothers' 1939 songbook was mostly in English but had a few Norwegian songs such as Kom Til Den Hvitmalte Kirke (The Church In The Wildwood) and Det Døende Barn (The Dying Child), whose author was Hans Christian Andersen.

Gads Hill Place

Dickens was visited at Gads Hill Place in 1857 by Danish author and poet Hans Christian Andersen, who was invited for two weeks but who stayed for five.

Heorhiy Narbut

In 1910-1912 Narbut was an illustrator of the fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen, the fables of Ivan Krylov, and folk tales.

Houshang Moradi Kermani

He has won many national and prestigious international awards which include Hans Christian Andersen Honorary diploma (1992) and University of San Francisco book of the year (2000).

Johannes Møllehave

His wide range of interests extends to some 40 different topics but he is particularly well known for his interest in Søren Kierkegaard, H.C. Andersen and Storm P.

Juraj Filas

Poslední sen starého dubu (The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream), Cantata after the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen for children's chorus and orchestra (1983); words by the composer

Ken Rattenbury

He then worked for EMI to produce full-length albums of incidental music to stories by Hans Christian Andersen and The Brothers Grimm.

Kurushima Takehiko

At that time, when he visited Odense, the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, he was distressed to find that the house in which Andersen was born was being used as little more than a storehouse, and that Andersen's grave was unattended to and had gone to seed.

Moved by this, the Danish people came to call him "the Japanese Hans Christian Andersen".

Marie Louise Kold

Recurrent themes in her art are etched quotations from writers such as the Danish Karen Blixen and Hans Christian Andersen, art-nouveau reminiscent angels, and large letters, framed by waves of colours brought out of the metal itself.

Meryl Tankard

2002 = Merryland, for Netherlands Dance Theatre 3; 2003 Wild Swans, commission from the Australian Ballet and the Sydney Opera House, a full length work based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy story to a commissioned score by Elena Kats-Chernin ;

Mikael Colville-Andersen

As producer for the The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) bicentenary website for Hans Christian Andersen, he and his team won the Prix Italia award at the Radiotelevisione Italiana 57th Prix Italia for Best Website.

North wind

Winter's Child (2009), Cameron Dokey's novel adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, "The Snow Queen", cites the North Wind as the main factor in the Snow Queen's transformation from a mortal to the titular Winter Child.

Odense International Film Festival

Odense International Film Festival was in the beginning known as The International Fairy Tale Festival, as a tribute to famous author of numerous fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen who was born in Odense.

Oksana Mysina

She played the tragicomic role Hans Christian Andersen's mother Anna-Maria in Eldar Ryazanov's “Andersen” (2007).

Peg Kerr

Her second novel The Wild Swans, based in part on Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale The Wild Swans, was published in 1999.

Rojan Hazim

#Pelatînk, Translation of The Butterfly by Hans Christian Andersen, 85 pp.

Sabrina Salvador

In 2009, she appeared in her first stage production, "Los cuentos mágicos del zapatero." Based on the tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Salvador played the role of Jenny Lind.

Sestri Levante

Baia delle Favole or “Bay of Fairy Tales” was named in honor of Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen, who lived in Sestri Levante for a short time in 1833.

Susse Wold

In addition to her many TV, film and stage roles, Wold has toured the world reading H. C. Andersen's works.

The Ice-Maiden

"The Ice-Maiden" is an 1861 fairy tale (short story) by the Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen.

The Little Match Seller

The Little Match Seller is a 1902 British short silent drama film, directed by James Williamson, retelling the classic Hans Christian Andersen fable of the sad life and tragic death of a little match seller.

The Ugly Duckling and Me!

Intended for a family audience, it is a modern adaptation of The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen.

Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen

In addition to composing music for his quintet, he has made pieces for string quintet and percussion as accompaniment to fairy tales by H. C. Andersen (2005), background music for Marguerite Duras' "The Lover" (2005), and was the main composer and bandleader for the jazz quintet Lobster (2002–08).

William Craigie

He compiled the complete Oxford edition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, with hitherto untranslated tales being supplied by his wife.


Adrienne Adams

In total she illustrated more than 30 books, from contemporary authors such as Rumer Godden, Irwin Shapiro and Aileen Fisher to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm.

Anne Born

She began writing poetry and, at the same time, translated Scandinavian writers into English, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen, Jens Christian Grøndahl, Per Petterson, Michael Larsen, Janne Teller, Stig Holmas, Carsten Jensen, Sissel Lie, Henrik Stangerup, and Knud Hjortø.

Evgeny Shvarts

In 1929 Shvarts began a relationship with Nikolay Akimov at the Leningrad Comedy Theater and began writing contemporary reality plays based on the folk and fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

Francisco Gabilondo Soler

During his childhood he read the stories of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as the adventure stories of such writers as Jules Verne and Emilio Salgari.

Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light

Harry Clarke brought his expertise in working in fine decorative detail in glass to his book illustrations, most notably in the tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe where he is compared to Aubrey Beardsley and which are featured in the film and paralleled with German Expressionist cinema of the time.

Jaromír Weinberger

It was once considered by the artists of the Walt Disney studio to be made into a Fantasia segment for Fantasia 2000, but lost out to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, in the form of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier".

Johann Baptist Zwecker

He illustrated children's books including Hans Christian Andersen's The Ice-Maiden (Richard Bentley, 1863), as well as tales of adventure such as African Hunting and Adventure... by William Charles Baldwin.

Le baiser de la fée

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's short story, Iisjomfruen (English: The Ice-Maiden), it is an homage to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, making use of several melodies from his early works.

Lillebil Ibsen

She made her début as a dancer at Nationaltheatret in 1911, in the ballet pantomime Prinsessen på erten, an adaptation of the story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen.

Marlenka Stupica

Among the others, she has illustrated fairy tales by Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Astrid Lindgren, and Ela Peroci.

Rosamunde

The Overture was used for a ballet sequence in the 1952 Samuel Goldwyn film Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye.

Stevns Municipality

Stevns is also home to Elverhøj (Elves' Hill), while not much of an attraction, it is famous for the fairy tale The Elf Mound by H.C. Andersen and the Danish national play Elves' Hill, both of which in Danish share the name Elverhøj.

The Frozen Deep

The first of these, on 4 July, was a command performance at the Royal Gallery of Illustration for Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their family; among the other guests were King Leopold I of Belgium, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and his fiancée Princess Victoria, along with literary lights William Thackeray and Hans Christian Andersen.

The Ugly Duckling

Other musical versions include the song “The Ugly Duckling” composed by Frank Loesser and sung by Danny Kaye for the 1952 Charles Vidor musical film Hans Christian Andersen, and Honk!, a musical based on the tale which was produced in Britain and won an Olivier Award.

Troll Fell

The story is influenced by legends and folktales about trolls and nisses collected in Thomas Keightley’s ‘Fairy Mythology’, 1850, and William Craigie’s ‘Scandinavian Folklore’, 1896, as well as by Hans Christian Andersen’s story ‘The Elf Hill’, a satirical description of a troll wedding.

Weihnachtsmärchen

The theatres show fairy tales, like traditional fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen, modern fairy tales like Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol or adaptations of The Wizard of Oz, Pippi Longstocking or Alice in Wonderland during the Adventszeit (the four weeks before Christmas) to "shorten" the waiting time until Christmas for the children.