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Kjeld Abell

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kjeld Abell , 1901-61, Danish playwright. Abell's Melody That Got Lost (1935, tr. 1939) was an early success. Trained as a stage designer, he was an innovator in stage technique. He later turned to ethical and social drama; Anna Sophie Hedvig (1939, tr. 1944), The Queen Walks Again (1943), Silkeborg (1946), and Skriget (1961) are arresting and powerful problem plays concerned with justice and social protest. Author not available, ABELL, KJELD. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Abell, Kjeld
Abell, Kjeld (1901–61), Danish dramatist and artist, who worked as a stage designer in Paris and with Balanchine at the Alhambra Theatre...Queen on Tour (1943), a protest against the loss of freedom during the German occupation of Denmark, and Days on a Cloud (1947). Abell's work represents a ... Read more
Danish literature
...tales of Isak Dinesen , while the theater was enlivened by the dramas of Kaj Munk and the brilliant stage technique of Kjeld Abell . The period following World War II saw the passing of a number of great figures and the emergence of Martin Hansen... Read more

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Chinese Professor Receives Danish Award
; ...The recipient, Lin Hua, is a senior translator who has introduced Danish poems, songs and novels, by such authors as Kjeld Abell, Martin Andersen Nexo, and Fritz Andersen, to Chinese readers. He also put three years of hard work into translating... Read more
Literary sources of Hans Scherfig's 'Den forsvundne Fuldmagtig.'
; ...commentators) that resemble Scherfig's novel and which may have contributed motifs and/or episodes to, it. These range from kjeld abell's plays Eva aftjener sin Barnepligt and Melodien der blev vok to Luigi Pirandello's Il fu Mattia Pascal to Fred Andreas... Read more
Treasures, and tokens remembered.(Metropolitan Times)(Party Lines)
; ...near and far since Herbert Hoover's day. Norwegian Ambassador Kjeld Vibe and wife Beate beamed with pride seeing on the catalog...the same pricey Oslo-made work? Just spoons, they said. Bess Abell, former White House social secretary for the Lyndon Johnsons... Read more
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; ...does not want to go there. One tends to agree with Rubow. With regard to genre, the novel dominates. Only one play--by Kjeld Abell--has been included (once again, the omission of Munk is inexcusable!), whereas three lyric poets have been chosen: Gustaf... Read more

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