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NEWS MAGAZINEISSN 0113-4965 ● July 2010

Movie NightFriday, July 16th, 7.30pm

A new movie by Anders Matthesen

SORTE kuglER (2009)Come and watch a great comedy on a dark

winters night!Come for coffee and cake and great company.

Free film plus coffee and cookies for members - donations welcome. Non-members pay $5.

Come to theOpen HouseSunday, July 4th from 2pm

Come and meet your friends or get some new ones – Everyone is welcome!

Coffee & cake from $2.50(Next Open House – Sunday, August 1st)

Wednesday Morning GroupWednesday, July 28th, 10.30am

10.30 am Coffee and chat11.00am More formal part of our gathering

Bring your Lunch to enjoy after the meeting. All welcome

Carlo Mikkelsen –More of the Mark of Denmark

Coming up in August – the AnnualWinter Warm-Up

Saturday, August 14th, 6-10pm

International Ethnic Dance ExtravaganzaDancing, costumes & food

from around the world

Also in August is a fun

Bingo Afternoon!on Saturday, 21st August, 2 pm

Den Danske Mødregruppes Midtvinter Julefrokost

The Danish Mothers’ Group Mid-Winter Christmas Dinner

will be held onSaturday 7th August 2010

at 6pm at the Danish HouseThis is a buffet dinner with everyone bringing

a dish (not pot-luck) and helping with serving, set-up, tidy-up etc.

Tilmelding og buffet-ret til Randi Edwards på tlf 630 1077 før 31. juliPlease contact Randi Edwards for further information

Registered with the Charities Commission

Danish Society News Magazine ● July 20102

THE DANISH SOCIETY (INC)P. O. BOX 12 279 - PENROSE 1642

6 Rockridge Ave., Penrose, AucklandPhone 580 3103

www.danishsocietynz.com

Contact phone numbersThe Danish House 580 3103Valhalla, Leigh 09 422 6194

CommitteePRESIDENTInger Mortensen 443 5105

Email: [email protected] Stewart 480 8282

Email: [email protected] Knights 021 858 248 Email: [email protected] Siggaard 528 2469

Email: [email protected] MEMBERSAntony Barrett 444 0939 Kim Basse 473 6455Kurt Marquart 476 0244Finn Nielsen 625 5533Dawn Nissen 625 7396EDITOR “NEWS MAGAZINE”Pam Logan 480 98839 Puawai Place, Northcote, Auckland

E-mail: [email protected] PRODUCTIONJohn Stewart 480 8282 MAILOUTHelle Scott 521 2844 CHANGE OF ADDRESSKurt Marquart 476 0244

E-mail: [email protected] Other Addresses

ROYAL DANISH CONSULATE GENERALP.O. Box 619, Auckland 1Fax 537 3067 Phone 537 3099www.danishconsulatesnz.org.nzTHE TRADE COMMISSION OF DENMARKP.O. Box 2154, Auckland 1Fax 307 5207 Phone 379 3119 www.dtcauckland.um.dkTHE LUTHERAN CHURCH1 Harris Rd (P O Box 85-014) Mt Wellington Phone 579 4490DANISH CHURCH NEW ZEALAND INC.Pastor Anja Grønne Mathiassenwww.danishchurchnz.org Ph 03 464 0218

SUBSCRIPTIONS (2010 Financial Year – 1st Oct 2009 to 30th Sept 2010)

Member: $60 per memberSenior rate: (65 & over) $50 per member Youth rate: (18 to 25) $50 per memberChildren under 18 Free Family discount: Less $10 per couple

REGULAR EVENTS

QUICK CHECK CALENDAR

DANISH HOUSEAn Open House is held on the first Sunday

of each month from 2pm.

COMMITTEE MEETINGSare held on the second Monday of the

month at 7.30pm

VALHALLA WORKING BEESWorking bees are usually held on the weekend

of the second Saturday of the month.

CARDPLAYERSmeet on the first and third Wednesday

of the month - 11am to 3pm

DANISH MOTHERS’ GROUP

meets every 2nd Tuesday. Call Christina on 021 161 3159 for venue.

FOLKDANCERSmeet at 7.30pm on the second and

fourth Tuesday of every month.

WEDNESDAY MORNING GROUP

Meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month at 10.30am.

JulySun 4 Open HouseWed 7 Card PlayersSat 10 Valhalla Working Bee Tues 13 Folkdancing Social NightFri 16 Film EveningWed 21 Card PlayersTues 27 FolkdancingWed 28 Morning GroupAugustSun 1 Open HouseSat 7 Mother’s Group Frokost

Sat 14 Winter Warm-UpFri 20 Film EveningSat 21 BingoWed 25 Morning GroupSeptemberSun 1 Open HouseSat 11 Valhalla Working BeeFri 17 Film EveningSat 18 PartyOctoberFri 15 Film EveningSun 31 Over 60s party

Committee Contact Working Group Convenor PhoneCultural Card Players Oluf Basse 534 2798 Danish lessons Connie Kristensen 0274 757 565 Danish Mothers’ group Christina Bengtson 021 161 3159 Films Kurt Marquart 476 0244 Folk dancing Finn Nielsen 625 5533 Library / Videos Helle Gilderdale 478 7016 Society history Karen Yates 524 6016 Welfare (Cards & Flowers) Vibeke Courtney 576 3150Danish House Bookings Antony Barrett 444 0939 Maintenance Kim Basse 473 6455 Members Membership Kurt Marquart 476 0244 email: [email protected] Editor Pam Logan 480 9883 Webmaster Lena Burlon 528 1108 email: [email protected] Bar Finn Nielsen, 625 5533 Socials Annette Jorna 630 8722 email: [email protected] Bookings & Maintenance Marion Stewart 480 8282 Working Bees Erik Nissen 625 7396

Committee Contacts & Convenors for Working Groups

Danish House Hall Hire RatesMembers rates for hiring the hall for the whole day at the Danish House, Penrose.Sunday to Friday inclusive $100Saturday: $150Half a day is $25 less. Funerals – no charge.

The bond is $150.00 per booking. The booking/holding fee of $50.00 is deducted from

the total cost.

Call the Booking Officer: Antony Barrett, Phone 444 0939

RATES FOR VALHALLA Peak Members Guests Adults $18 $30Children $9 $20Off-Peak Adults $12 $30Children $6 $20Whole house daily rate Off-peak $120 Peak rate $270 Christmas season $320Off-peak = Mid-week only excluding Christmas season and school holidaysPeak = All school holidays, Christmas season and all weekends.Christmas season = Christmas Eve to the end of Anniversary weekend.The house can only be hired for 7 days at any one time.

Call the Booking Officer: Marion Stewart,88c Coronation Road, Hillcrest, NSC

P: 480 8282 E: [email protected]

Danish ClassesWednesdays

Beginners 6.30-7.30pmIntermediate 7.30-8.30pmPrivate lessons are available on

Saturday mornings. For more information call Connie Kristensen 0274 757 565

Culture, identity and the Football World Cup

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There is nothing like a football world cup to make us think about culture and identity. My work colleagues have had many discussions about the world cup and the sweepstake draw brought out all the strong feelings about how we reflect on other countries and how we reflect about ourselves.

So, if Denmark were playing New Zealand in the football final, who would you support? Our club president arrived at the committee meeting last week wearing a Danish football strip and carrying a Danish flag so there is no doubt which side she would be on. Finn Nielsen went to the under 17 women’s world football championship last year and held a New Zealand flag and a Danish flag. Antony Barrett was not sure who he would support in a game like that; he would really have to think about it.

Danes will identify with some of the great soccer players from the past. Do you remember Karl Aage Praest who is regarded as one of Denmark’s greatest players from the late 1940s. What about Poul Hansen who played fifty games for the Danish side and was

part of the team who won silver in the 1960 Olympics? Or Ole Madsen who was Danish player of the year in 1964 and scored 42 goals out of 50 games he played. And what about Harald Nielsen who coerced the Danish football association into starting a pro league. Do you remember Allan Simonsen, Henning Jensen both from the 1970’s and how about the very famous Morton Olsen who has done wonderful things for world football. This history and pride in our great sports people is what makes us who we are.

New Zealanders have been following the all whites with interest. Even in our Rugby mad nation one cannot escape the moment of glory when New Zealand qualified for the football world cup against Bahrain. We value this soccer achievement because we are such a small country and these efforts seem so magnificent in comparison to the great nations on the world.

“Go England” shouts my husband at the TV. There is no doubting who he supports!By Kim Basse

The All Whites can actually thank Denmark for Winston Reid, the hero who scored for New Zealand in the very last moment in the match against Slovakia and turned the seemingly inevitable loss to a 1-1 draw.

This young player was born in New Zealand to a Kiwi father and a Danish mother. At the age of about 10-11, they went to Denmark, and Winston Reid went to football school. In 2004, aged 15, he was discovered by one of the biggest Danish clubs FC Midtjylland and already the following year played an important role in FCM securing the Danish championship.

He has represented FCM in 85 matches and has played for Denmark in the U19, U20, and U21 teams. In all, he represented Denmark in 15 youth matches. In March 2010 he moved back to New Zealand so he could represent the All Whites in the Fifa World Cup. Winston Reid still officially plays for FCM, although the club’s coaches realise that Reid may well end up going to a foreign club now that he is getting famous.

The Danish media are quite excited about Reid’s goal – Berlingske wrote: Finally a Danish goal!by Inger Mortensen

“Tak for målet – thanks for the goal!”

The headline in the New Zealand Herald on Thursday, June 17th.

The Danish team who played against the Netherlands.FIFA World Cup News

Football ‘live’ at Danish House


A small but very enthusiastic and dedicated group of members got together very early – in fact 6am – Sunday morning, 20 June, to watch Denmark playing Cameroon at the soccer world cup tournament in South Africa. This was Denmark’s second game. They had to win to have any hope of staying in the tournament following a loss to Netherlands in their first game. Finn and Kurt had organised installation of a SkyTV dish and Inger brought her decoder so we could watch the game on the big screen in the Danish House.

As tradition has it, we all stood up and loudly and proudly joined in on the national anthem waiving our flags (in the absence of vuvuzela’s!). Plenty of coffee and a wee bit of Gammel Dansk helped everyone wake up and get in the right mood.

The game then got underway. When Cameroon scored a goal only 10 minutes into the game the room suddenly turned very quiet. More than a few anxious faces were seen. Despair and disbelief. Was this really the end of Denmark’s glory? We had to wait until the 33rd minute for another goal. This time in the right of

the field. Denmark was back in the game. A huge sigh of relief from the hard tested audience! Maybe there was still some ‘Danish Dynamite’ left.

Time for some breakfast and more coffee in the break. Some quiet confidence among the enthusiastic crowd however also clear that this could go right down to the wire. Too many missed chances but clearly luck was on Denmark’s side that morning. Several people in the room found it hard to even breathe as the excitement increased by the minute. In the 61st minute Denmark scored again. Everyone were absolutely ecstatic. Flags were waived high. Maybe Denmark would make it after all?

And they did indeed. The end score was 2 - 1 to Denmark. This means that Denmark has to beat Japan in the final game to progress in the tournament.

Very appropriately some more Gammel Dansk was served to celebrate the victory. What a terrific way to start Sunday morning.Sent in by Rolf Siggaard

Plenty to buy at the

Danish Society

shopRing

Oluf Basse (534 2798)

for shop opening times

A reply from Queen Margrethe


Through time, there have been a number of love stories with tragic endings in the “Romeo and Juliet” tenor. In one such event, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover took their lives in 1889. That same year, Denmark too was the forum to a now well known event with similar consequences.

It involved a Danish tightrope walker and circus trick rider by the name of Elvira Madigan, who was born in Germany to a Norwegian mother and Danish father. Her mother later lived with the American circus manager John Madigan. The other party in this illicit affair was a Swedish cavalry officer, Lieutenant Count Bengt Edvard Sixten Sparre, who at the age of 35 was 14 years senior to Elvira Madigan. It all started in Sweden where Elvira was performing with her stepfather s circus, and she met up with Count Sixten Sparre after one of the shows.

It did not take long for the Count and Elvira to fall in love, but it was an impossible situation, partly due to the fact that Sixten Sparre was married and the father

of two children. After exchanging love letters for a year, they eloped to Denmark in June 1889, where they spent about a month. When they ran out of money, they packed a picnic basket, and went out to Noerreskov on the island of Taasinge. Here they had their last meal together, after which and by consent, the Count shot Elvira and killed himself with his service revolver.

This took place on the 20th July 1889, when Elvira was 21 years of age, the Count was 35 years old. Both Elvira s and Sixten Sparre s graves are situated at the cemetery of Landet on Taasinge, and are today often visited by both tourists, and lovers from all over the world. Sent in by Carlo MIkkelsen

The Mark of Denmark

Movie ReviewFriday July 16th at 7.30pm

We will be showing

SORTE kuglER (2009)Synopsis (Comedy):

Alex Klein is a bankrupt real estate executive whose life is on a collision course. He has a wife

who is thriving in success and a family whose habits are driving him insane, not to mention

clients with bad taste and too much money. One day, when things become real serious, he can

only weather the storm in his own repelling way. starring:

Anders Matthesen, Søren Rislund, Søren Malling, Julie Lund, Linda Pedersen, Rene Dif

director: Anders Matthesen

MissingA set of bound copies of the Danish Society’s News

Magazines are missing from the library. The missing magazines are from April 1973 to April 1991. If you have borrowed this set of magazines, please return them to the library. Thank you.


From the Valhalla Booking Off ceriPart of my role as booking officer is to keep a record

of the number of occupants who stay at Valhalla over the year, the split between members and guests and the income from those that use Valhalla.

I have just completed a discussion paper for the committee which threw up some interesting facts, some of which I will share with you.1 At the end of the 2009 financial year the occupancy

had increased by 45% since 2005.2 This along with a slight increase in our rate charge

has increased our income by 55% since 2005.3 This year the occupancy is running at a 25% increase

on last year.4 The number of our adult members who use Valhalla

is well in excess of 120 and is more likely closer to 150. This is difficult to quantify as whole house bookings are made by only one member but is often with other members joining them.

All of this information is vital for the Valhalla Sub-committee and the Danish Society committee when considering projects at Valhalla. The increased occupancy figure is why we are currently concentrating on the water reticulation in particular the well and the quality of the water to the house. We need to ensure the well is able to provide the increase in water usage, the quality of the water is of a high standard and the whole system is working correctly. Of course with an increase in water coming into the house that reflects on the amount of water leaving the house in both grey and black water, which is why we are also looking at

our septic tank system and how we can improve it. We are very fortunate to have both a geologist and a

drain layer amongst our members who are dedicating many personal hours with their knowledge and skill driving these two projects. Neither of these projects could have been considered without parting with a considerable amount of money to buy this skill had it not been for these highly valued members.

We have many other projects on our plans still to be implemented but until the water reticulation projects are finalised and completed we do not want to over-commit either our workforce or our finances. Over the next few months we are also concentrating on the re-vegetation. As our main planting calendar is between now and September it is vital we concentrate our workforce where it is needed most.

While members are thrilled with the improvements to Valhalla so it seems are the mice. They are making their presence known in the house. We are doing our best to control this problem, but there is no quick fix. Meanwhile keep all your food well covered and stored away. In particular watch any open packets like biscuits and cereal boxes.

I have formalised the guidelines for using Valhalla. They will be included with your booking confirmation, please read carefully if you are unsure of anything.Marion StewartValhalla Booking Officer

Danish hot dogs, roasted marshmallows and

snobrødsdej at Skt Hans, Sunday, June 20


We need your help!at the next Valhalla Working Bees10th-11th July14th-15th AugustWe are seeking your support to carry out a whole range of jobs. Our main focus will be to do outside jobs such as completing the steps, cleaning, weeding and planting etc. There is always house-cleaning to do as well. Any help is welcome. Lunch is supplied by the society, therefore we need to know the number of participants by Wednesday 7th July.

If you are able to help in any way, please contact Dawn or Erik Nissen on 625 7396

Valhalla Working Bee Report - JuneGraham, Jes, Gitte and Erik arrived early on Friday

morning. With Kiwi Well-drillers on site, Jes and Gitte and Erik were overlooking the extraction of the water pump from the base and the cleaning and sterilisation of the pump pipe and well. This took most of the day. Graham sprayed , weeded and planted near the estuary throughout the day.

On Saturday the planting team of Graham, Palle,

Erik, Tove, Antony, John and Hannah Nielsen spent the day hard at work. Neil continued work on the deck, building a pergola on Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday planting was continued between showers by Graham, Palle, Erik and Tove. Dawn defrosted all the fridges and cooked for the group. Thanks to our small but hard-working team. Erik Nissen

The water pump being taken out and cleaned by

Kiwi Well Drillers.

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SCANDINAVIANFESTIVAL

25th 26th & 27th February, 2011at Norsewood

www.scandinavian festival.org.nzwww.norsewood.co.nz


ForeningsnytCongratulations to all the members

who have birthdays and the couples who have an anniversary in July especially

Jytte Sharpesom fylder 70 år d. 17.7.2010

Christine Futterupsom fylder 55 år d. 26.7.2010

Thank You Letters

Letters

Contributors

Many thanks to the Danish Society for the beautiful flowers & kind wishes sent to me on the occasion of my broken leg. They certainly help to brighten the dark days of winter and are very much appreciated.Sincerely, Pat BasseAlso thanks to Vibeke & Neville who arranged and delivered the flowers personally.

Hello there, Just to say that I’ve enjoyed getting familiar with

this website mentioned by Inger in the May issue (www.mydenmarktv.com). It is a great one to pass on to young people enquiring about Denmark, have added it to my ‘list of useful websites to give to enquirers’ list!

Amazed to see the Caribbean Festival on the other day, looked very strange i.e. unexpected in the streets of Copenhagen – but loads of fun for both participants and dancers!Regards, Carol Stigley, Royal Danish Consul General for Wellington

The next magazine deadline is July 14All contributions welcome – in English or Danish (with a short summary in English). The magazine can also be read (in full colour) online at www.danishsocietynz.com.Note: ads for events must be in a calendar month before the event. Pam Logan (Editor) [email protected]

Thank you to Inger Mortensen, Inge Andersen, Kim Basse, Randi Beck Edwards, Carlo Mikkelsen, Erik & Dawn Nissen & Rolf Siggaard for items sent in and also to Rolf Siggaard, Inger Mortensen & Gitte Nielsen for photos in this month’s magazine.

In MemoriamKathie Kristiansen

Kathie Kristiansen passed away on May 24th. Kathie played the piano at Society functions and was also the one who found the present easily moveable piano for the club. Ære være hendes minde!

Liz Van RooyenLis Van Rooyen, nee Illingby, died peacefully

on 10th June, aged 74 years in Mosgiel. Lis came to New Zealand in the early 1950’s with her parents Paul and Karen IIlingby. Lis trained as a teacher, was musical and artistic. Many of her paintings and sculptures illustrated Danish themes, such as the paintings of the traditional farm house, the lag pole with Dannebrog, the red and white Danish flag. Clay sculptures were made of Hans Christian Andersen stories.

Lis was active in the Danish Society in the early days of the Danish House in Parnell. With her young children she enjoyed family holidays at Valhalla. At the opening of the Danish House in Penrose Lis sang with the singing group. Lis had many Danish friends and was an active member of the Danish community in Auckland. After many years living on the North Shore, Lis moved south to Mosgiel to be with her family.

Ære være hendes minde! Inge Andersen

WANTEDDo you like mowing lawns?

The Danish House at Penrose needs a new person who would like to keep the

Society’s grounds trim. Please call Kim Basse on 473 6455.

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