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Kjeld Abell

1901 - 1961

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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 and London's Alhambra Theatre. Roughly the dramatic work of Abell might be divided into three phases: a) criticism of middle class conventions, b) fighting Nazism and c) criticism of post-war pessimism and urge for death. Perhaps he is the first consequent modernist among Danish playwrights with his use of a flash back Chinese box system and a growing use of symbols and parallel actions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kjeld Abell is the 2,535th most popular writer (up from 2,716th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 272nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Danish Writer.

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Among writers, Kjeld Abell ranks 2,535 out of 7,302. Before him are Sibilla Aleramo, Esther Vilar, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Cyprian Norwid, Lars Saabye Christensen, and Mariama Bâ. After him are Đura Jakšić, Michel Zevaco, Song Yingxing, Donald Adamson, Gustave Aimard, and Théophile de Viau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Kjeld Abell ranks 125. Before him are Wolfgang Schmieder, Karl-August Fagerholm, Ed Sullivan, Alexander Fadeyev, Vladimir Sofronitsky, and Pavel Rotmistrov. After him are August Schmidhuber, Nina Bari, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Ho Feng-Shan, Rose Ausländer, and Raúl Prebisch. Among people deceased in 1961, Kjeld Abell ranks 69. Before him are Bulbul, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Morris Travers, Max Simon, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, and Vanessa Bell. After him are Charles Coburn, Nina Bari, Lucian Blaga, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Valentin Bondarenko, and Anselmo Alliegro y Milá.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Kjeld Abell ranks 257 out of 1,032. Before him are Carl Lange (1834), Henning Jensen (1949), Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1890), Holger Nielsen (1866), Grethe Ingmann (1938), and Jacob Gade (1879). After him are Erik Scavenius (1877), Valdemar the Young (1209), Ove Høegh-Guldberg (1731), Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785), Holger Pedersen (1867), and Christen Købke (1810).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Kjeld Abell ranks 22. Before him are Aksel Sandemose (1899), Ole Nydahl (1941), Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), Inger Christensen (1935), Herman Bang (1857), and Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (1621). After him are Peter Høeg (1957), Kaj Munk (1898), Johannes Ewald (1743), Cecil Bødker (1927), Holger Drachmann (1846), and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872).

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