Sven Grønlykke (1927–1998) and Lene Grønlykke (18 October 1933 – 28 November 1990) was a Danish husband-and-wife partnership who started out in film-making but are today most known for their achievements as culinary entrepreneurs. They founded the food company

Løgismose Løgismose is a Danish food company producing and retailing delicacies and other products under its own brand. The company has the subsidiaries: Løgismose Wine, and Løgismose Dairy, and also controls Falsled Kro on Funen and the Michelin-star ...

, named after the family estate

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, as well as the gourmet restaurants Falsled Kro and

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Biography

Sven Grønlykke began his career in sales of farming machines and later made a move into production of

foam rubber Foam rubber (also known as cellular rubber, sponge rubber, or expanded rubber) refers to rubber that has been manufactured with a foaming agent to create an air-filled matrix structure. Commercial foam rubbers are generally made of synthetic rub ...

for the furniture industry with factories in Germany, Sweden, Norway and Spain. In 1953 he married Lene (born Meyer Petersen), who was a journalist, and after making a fortune from the sale of their business empire the couple acquired the ASA Filmudlejning in Copenhagen in 1964 to pursue a career in film-making as well as

on the island of

Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...

in 1965. Writing and directing the films in collaboration, they first made the children's film ''Thomas er fredløs'' from 1967 and then experienced a breakthrough with '' The Ballad of Carl-Henning'', inspired by the

French New Wave French New Wave (french: La Nouvelle Vague) is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconocla ...

and won the Danish Film Critics Award for Best Danish Film on 1969. Over the next few years Sven Grønlykke produced a number of films before they sold their film studio to the Danish state in 1972. The couple had plans to open a restaurant in the Basque Country but instead ended up buying the run down Falsled Kro, located not far from their Funen estate, turning it into a boutique hotel and French-style gourmet restaurant. They also began to produce cheese and chocolate on their Løgismose estate and to import French wines, naming their company

after the estate. In 1976 they opened the restaurant

in Copenhagen together with the writer

Klaus Rifbjerg Klaus Rifbjerg (15 December 1931 – 4 April 2015) was a Danish writer. He authored more than 170 novels, books and essays. In 1965 he co-produced the film '' 4x4'' which was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography Ri ...

and his wife Inge. In 1981 they released their third and last film, ''

Thorvald og Linda Thorvald is from the ''Old Norse'' name ''Þórvaldr'', which means "Thor's ruler". Despite this pagan origin, the name survived the conversion of Scandinavians to Christianity and remains popular up to the present. Thorvald may refer to: *Thorva ...

'', a drama set among railway workers in

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in 1912.

Filmography

Producer

* '' Naboerne'' (1966) * ''Thomas er fredløs'' (1967 ) * '' The Ballad of Carl-Henning'' (1969) * ''Farlige kys'' (1972)

Director

* ''Thomas er fredløs'' ( 1967) * '' The Ballad of Carl-Henning'' ( 1969) * ''Thorvald og Linda'' (1982)

Writer

* ''Thomas er fredløs'' (1967) * '' The Ballad of Carl-Henning'' (1969) * ''Thorvald og Linda'' (1982)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gronlykke, Sven and Lene Danish film directors Danish restaurateurs Danish company founders Married couples