Tag: Christianshavn
May the fourth be with these brave high-wire walkers
Tight-rope walkers in the circus are one thing, but they enter the realm of the spectacular when they bring their craft to popular landmarks – like Philippe Petit, the madman who famously walked between the Twin Towers in 1974. Well, the French legend’s petit pois will descend on the Danish capital on May 4 to…
Denne uge i København: Hyggeaften, vandring på Sjællands nordkyst og hættetrøjer til målstænger
Vandring Nordkyststien 29. april 08.00-30. april 15.00; DR Byen metrostation, Cph S; gratis adm, meetup.comGå langs Sjællands nordkyst fra Helsingør til Hundested – 70 km i alt over to dage. Mød op kl. 8 og tag toget til Helsingør. Ideelt efter 30-40 km er der et stop på en campingplads eller Hostel lørdag for at…
Red light rats: Danish police fine dozens of cyclists thanks to tips from the public
In some European countries it is the public vs the police. Citizens of countries like the UK and Italy might disapprove of certain driving offenses and anti-social behaviour, but they would never fool/talk down the culprits. Motorists flash their headlights to warn each other of the presence of a hidden speed trap; pub-goers exchange information…
Garbage men are on strike in Copenhagen
Piles of trash on the horizon?The trade paper 3F wrote that the waste collectors in question pick up waste all over the city. Specifically the city centre, Christianshavn, Tårnby, Dragør, Amager, Vesterbro, Østerbro, Nørrebro, Nordvest, Valby, Brønshøj, Husum and Frederiksberg. ARC said it has requested the Municipal Association KL for help in resolving the conflict.
Culture Round-Up: Bollywood and bhajis on the beach under a bombardment of colors
As a way to encourage the gray days to give way to sunnier skies, and our dark attire to make way for lighter shades, a savior returns to Copenhagen in April. The Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS-DK), the organizer of last August’s well-attended Indian Vegetarian Food Festival, is hitting up Østerbro once again, this time to…
Danish News Round-Up: Christianshavn is becoming more and more like Venice!
A large part of the canal-saturated Copenhagen district of Christianshavn faces an extended period when it will not be accessible to road vehicles due to the closure of a critical bridge. With the bridge out of action, only bicycles and boats will be able to visit the island of Bjørnsholm – where Nordatlantens Brygge and…
Local Round-Up: Man shot and killed in Christiania last night
A 23-year-old man was shot and killed in Christiania on Wednesday 26 October between 17:00 and 18:00. He was apparently hit at close range on Pusherstreet, the area of freetown where cannabis is commonly sold in the open. The victim is a well-known figure in the environment. Suspects are SomalisPolice have released a description of…
Culture Gathering: Murky Waters Ahead?
A few days after the Polish city of Krakow revealed that Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is not welcome in connection with comments he made about the war in Ukraine, ticket sales began for his two concerts at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, where he is to perform. next year on April 17 and 18.…
Local Round-Up: Thunderstorm threat towards Eastern Denmark later today
There is crazy weather and then there is Danish weather. Right now, reports TV2, it is a sweltering 28.8 degrees in Brandelev in South Zealand on a day when plus-30 temperatures are forecast in most of South-Eastern Denmark. But at Holsterbro in North-West Jutland it is only 17.1 degrees due to the cooling effects of…
Summary of local news: Bilingual students do better in school
There are signs that bilingual children are closing the gap for their ethnic-Danish peers. The difference in grades between monolingual and bilingual pupils who finish primary school when most pupils are 15 or 16 years old has, according to the City of Copenhagen’s figures, shrunk from 1.8 in 2017 to 1.4 today. This may in…
Danish high school students: Why does sex education end just before we lose virginity?
School children aged 6-16 are learning this week about consent as part of a sex education focus in week 6 approved by Sex & Society. But their high school counterparts, students generally aged 16-20, feel the need to confirm consent before two people become confidential, which was made part of Danish law in January 2021,…
The wisdom of the ugly duckling
At the foot of Strandgade, Christianshavn, the old rococo church Christians Kirke opens its doors to international people who seek a deeper understanding of the Danish cultural heritage – and an exploration of perhaps the most difficult question of them all: what it means to be. a human In the years of the golden age,…
Local Round-Up: Scooters officially back, but at what price for suppliers?
A transport expert doubts that the scooter companies Voi and Bolt will be able to make money after their green light to start activities in the capital region today. Under the terms of their tender, the two companies can jointly operate 3,200 scooters, but there are severe restrictions on where people can end their journey.…
The Christian Democrats clap at Rohde: No one can control me
– You can not control me. I may have a hard time controlling myself, but that is not the intention either, says Jens Rohde. According to Rohde, there must be room for different opinions. And they were presented, as when Verner B. Andersen in Silkeborg presented abortion resistance as an alternative solution to a current…
Now electric scooters are returning to the streets of Copenhagen
This is stated by the City of Copenhagen in a press release. The agreement means, among other things, that the scooters must be parked in 240 designated parking areas when a trip ends. In addition, it will not be possible to rent the scooters or end a trip in an area that politicians have assessed…
Øvig opens the door to a closed world
But so does Peter Øvig Knudsen, who turns 60 on October 9, in the books “My mother was obsessed” and “I am what I remember”. In the first as a child of a depressed mother, and in the second, which came out in September, with herself in the lead role as a psychiatric patient. For…
Criticized by many, glorified by many: Free State Christiania celebrates its 50th birthday
If you have recently wondered why there have been parades of colorfully dressed people with funny hats riding cargo bikes on the streets of Copenhagen recently, you are ready for a clarification. September 26 marked Christiania’s existence for half a century, and the festivities ended up being enjoyed not only by citizens of the Free…
The potter starred in popular films
She appeared in over 20 films from the 1960s to the 1980s and in minor roles in several major Danish series such as “Matador” and “The House at Christianshavn”. The former actress turns 75 on September 23rd. Sisse is a nickname that both family, friends and since the Danish public have used about the actress…
Local Round-Up: Prejudiced residents assume that the Northwest is home to ten times more gang members than in reality
A survey conducted on behalf of the City of Copenhagen among young residents in the Northwest reveals that most of them tend to overestimate how many gang members aged 15-18 live in the district. Not in gangs, not always on the street On average, participants in the study estimated that 20 percent of the age…
Local Round-Up: Change of cemeteries to make room for more park area in Frederiksberg
Frederiksberg Municipality plans to rebuild part of Solbjerg Park Cemetery to create more park area near Copenhagen Zoo. The cemetery is located next to Frederiksberg’s most famous parks, Frederiksberg Garden and Sondermarken. It is surrounded by a marked 150-year-old red brick wall that may need to be relocated to meet plans. Municipal change Frederiksberg Municipality…
Hartling himself has felt the hardest
In April, his book on active euthanasia “Euthanasia and the Ethics of a Doctor’s Decisions. An Argument Against Assisted Dying” was published in the UK and US. Ole Hartling, who turns 75 on 26 June, is a doctor and has worked as a chief physician at Vejle Hospital and as an adjunct professor of health…
Great-grandfather in Tivoli provided inspiration for success
Readers would make sure to be the first to immerse themselves in the love story between the book’s main character, Ida Hammershøi, and her husband, the painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. For whom was the young woman who left the regular home in Stubbekøbing to move into the high-ceilinged living rooms at Christianshavn, where she sat model…
Criminal tours of libraries were to raise over 40 million
By installing keyloggers on public computers in a string of libraries, the perpetrators obtained sensitive information about other citizens – name and password for NemID key cards. Then new key cards were ordered, which were fished out of the unsuspecting people’s mailboxes, after which they were drained for money. It appears from an indictment which…
The Central Station is the first memory of Denmark
The answer has been a polite no, for Farshad Kholghi, who turns 50 on May 17, prefers to use the speech gifts in front of the audience on stage. Like when he performs in the Kerteminder revue from the end of May, in the late summer in the Esbjerg Revue and at the Bellevue Theater…
Copenhagen police are setting up more surveillance cameras
More cameras on the horizon The new cameras will be up at Nyhavn and Nørreport Station as well as Rådhuspladsens, Kongens Nytorv, Nyhavn, Den Røde Plads and Den Sorte Plads. Police often encounter reports of crime or other cases in the above areas. The cameras are part of the government’s law on safety and security…
Royal court supplier in TV documentaries
His company, JJ Film, produced television programs that made viewers wiser about the members of the royal family, but also about the people with whom they interact at home and abroad. Among other things, in the mid-1990s Jacob Jørgensen created four programs about the seasons in the royal house for TV2. Here he appeared as…
He is masterful at wines
– It was great to get the two stars with AOC and my partner Søren Selin in 2015. We were crazy, to be completely honest. We had not seen it coming. So that’s clearly the highlight, he says. Christian Aarø’s working life began in the late 80’s as a cooking student, where he quickly got…
Violence against a Pole on Amager costs two homeless prisoners
At the Eastern High Court, a verdict was handed down on Tuesday, where two men – a Romanian and a Greenlander – were convicted of violence resulting in death against a 43-year-old Polish man who in August 2018 was found in the water at Christmas Møllers Plads on Amager. 40-year-old Hans Lauritz Josefsen has been…
Local Round-Up: Celebrating a century of hot dog culture in Copenhagen
Forget Noma, Copenhageners tell visitors to their city, to get a real feel for Danish cuisine, try a hot dog sold by a street vendor – be it a ‘pixie’, ‘mummies’ or’ a bald Frenchman in a sleeping bag ‘(bald Frenchman in a sleeping bag). For four to five generations, this pearl of wisdom has…
Man found wounded by several stab wounds at Christianshavn
When police and ambulance people arrive, they find the man with a knife at Our Savior’s Church. – He has been stabbed several times and is being taken to Rigshospitalet, but he should be out of danger, says the police inspector. Police cannot say with certainty where the stabbing took place. – But we believe…
Then there is again unification around the Lakes in Copenhagen
The one-way street will also apply to the violence in Christianshavn. This makes it a little easier to keep the necessary distance to others. This is what Jakob Hjuler Tamsmark, unit manager in the municipality, says in the announcement. – Copenhageners love to use the city, and both the ramparts and the lakes are popular…
Rene’s chips are on the table: Burgers will see Noma through the winter
If you missed out on trying Noma burgers over the summer, good luck! From December 3, the team behind the country’s most successful and famous restaurant will open a new burger joint at Strandgade 108 in Christianshavn – just to the right after you cross the Inderhavnsbroen from Nyhavn. The menu at POPL will be…
Copenhagen to lift one-way restriction around the city’s lakes
Despite the number of COVID-19 cases that have increased in Copenhagen recently, local politicians have decided to lift the restrictions in a direction that exists in several areas of the city. The one-way rules are repealed for the five city lakes as well as for Damhussøen and Christianshavns Vold. In addition, the bicycle ban at…
District chairman: Form of meeting may have affected support for Frank Jensen
22 out of 32 participants backed Frank Jensen (S) at a crisis meeting on Sunday, where the case of the mayor’s violations of women was on the table. This is what Carlo Søndergaard, chairman of the Social Democrats in Indre By and Christianshavn, who was one of the participants at the meeting, says. He is…
Frank Jensen convenes an emergency meeting in S after accusations
Copenhagen’s Social Democratic mayor, Frank Jensen, will explain himself on Sunday after accusations of abusive behavior against two women. It takes place at an emergency meeting at 6.30 pm at the City Hall in Copenhagen. Also read: Frank Jensen apologizes unreservedly for violations Here he must explain himself to his party colleagues in the Citizens’…
October Events: Cheyenne and Extremophiles are coming!
Cheyenne leavesNov 13 – Dec 5, Mon-Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm; The Theater at Sorte Hest, Vesterbrogade 150; 205kr Tanja Mastilo’s brand new game takes place in a fictional world destroyed by war. The protagonist, an isolated writer, welcomes an interloper into his home. The story explores the idea of ‘home’ and how far we will…
Local Round-Up: Suspect of teenage murder arrested
Two teenagers – aged 14 and 16 years – was arrested last night after the murder of an 18-year-old man last Friday. Both have been charged with murder. While the older of the two was questioned this morning, the younger has been handed over to social services as he is under the minimum age for…