The Kjeld Abell Prize is a Danish cultural award which is handed every second or third year to a person, who has made a great effort for Danish theatre or film.Denstoedanske.dk
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Kjeld Abell Kjeld Abell (25 August 1901 – 5 March 1961) was a Danish playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical designer. Born in Ribe, Denmark, Abell's first designs were seen in ballets directed by George Balanchine at Copenhagen's Royal Danish Theatre an ...

Memorial Foundation, which was founded just after his death in 1961. The prize is currently 50,000 DDK.

Recipients

* 1976: Jess Ørnsbo * 1978:

Inger Christensen Inger Christensen (16 January 1935 – 2 January 2009) was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor. She is considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation. Life and work Born in the town of Vejle, on the eastern J ...

* 1980: Eugenio Barba * 1982:

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* 1983: Jørgen Leth * 1985: Ulla Ryum * 1987: Astrid Saalbach * 1989: Kirsten Delholm * 1991:

Ernst Bruun Olsen Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975- ...

* 1993:

Lars von Trier Lars von Trier (''né'' Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish filmmaker, actor, and lyricist. Having garnered a reputation as a highly ambitious, polarizing filmmaker, he has been the subject of several controversies: Cannes, in addition to nominat ...

and

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* 1995: Jens Kistrup * 1997: Morti Vizki * 2000: Peter Asmussen * 2003: Nullo Facchini * 2005: Claus Beck-Nielsen * 2007: Jokum Rohde * 2009:

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* 2011: Nikoline Werdelin * 2015: Andreas Garfield

References

Danish film awards {{film-award-stub