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Dan Turèlls Plads is a public square in the
Vangede Vangede is a suburb 8 km north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. This area is primarily made up of one and two family houses and two and three story apartment buildings. History The first known references to the village is from 1346 when it is ...
district of
Gentofte Municipality Gentofte Municipality () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in the Capital Region of Denmark (''Region Hovedstaden'') on the east coast of the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. It covers an area of , and has a total pop ...
in the northern suburbs of
Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
,
Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
. It was named for the writer
Dan Turèll Dan Turèll (March 19, 1946 – October 15, 1993), affectionately nicknamed " Danny" (English: ''Uncle Danny''), was a popular Danish writer with notable influence on Danish literature. His work crossed a number of genres including autobiography ...
on 19 March 2007. Turèll grew up in the Vangede in the 1950s and published the memoir ''Vangedebilleder'' in 1975. The square feature a 47 metre long, turquoise bench and a sculpture from 2011. The square is located of the east side of Vangedevej, just south of Brogårdsvej.


Alphabet Turèll

An iron sculpture created by the artist Kenn André Stilling, a friend of Turèll, was installed on the square in 2011. It is a composition of all the letters in the Danish alphabet in different sizes with Dan Turèll's initials as the two largest. The sculpture is inspired by a poem in Turèll's last poetry collection ''Tjah-a cha-cha'' from 1993: "The alphabet is my best toy and I will play with it until it has become too dark for me to see it anymore" ("Alfabetet er mit bedste legetøj. Jeg vil lege med det lige til det bliver for mørkt til at jeg kan sé det").


See also

* List of squares in Copenhagen


References


External links

Squares in Copenhagen Streets in Gentofte Municipality {{Gentofte Municipality