Died 4 Aug 1875: #HansChristianAndersen​, saint of #Antinous. Sadly, he was self-hating gay man, a true-life #UglyDuckling for whom there was no happy ending. But his gayness shines through his fairy tales of triumph over adversity. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/hans-christian-andersen-saint-of.html

Died 4 Aug 1875: #HansChristianAndersen​, saint of #Antinous. Sadly, he was self-hating gay man, a true-life #UglyDuckling for whom there was no happy ending. But his gayness shines through his #fairytales of triumph over adversity. Watch this toon: https://youtu.be/RCX-mPstrPU

It's been a while since I've posted anything about Our Lady of The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen. This one is a tiny detail from her autobiography "The Fairy Tale of My Life" [Mit Livs Eventyr]:

In page 81 of the English translation = page 110 of the Danish original, Andersen speaks about Madame Lässöe [Fru Læssøe]: "yes, and if there be tenderness and purity in anything which I have written, they are among those things for which I have especially to be thankful to her."

Now, I don't speak Danish, but I can still point out the fact that the original text doesn't say "tenderness" but rather "kvindelighed" which means "femininity". [kvinde- "woman" -lig- "ly" -hed "hood"]. I looked it up in a few dictionaries and it's always translated as "femininity" and never as "tenderness".

So, basically, Hans Christian Andersen thanks Fru Læssøe for contributing to the femininity of her work.

This article would have been better if the writer had taken the trouble to learn how to spell Andersen.

And as for Andersen's visage? Whatever. I can think of several actors who could quite easily portray him: Liam Neeson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adam Driver(!), Damian Lewis, Owen Wilson, etc... He couldn't have been as ugly as his envious contemporaries would have us believe. Striking, perhaps, but well within the realms of human.

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/07/150-years-of-the-bizarre-hans-christian-andersen

#HansChristianAndersen #Folklore #FairyTales

(ETA: hat-tip to Gutenberg: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/114947120101543863)

Oh boy, Mr Andersen:

"they were as satisfied as if they had drunk themselves merry on tea water (which after all is quite Chinese)."

Leichte Sprache: | MDR.DE

Die Jüdische Woche wird jetzt schon zum 16. Mal gemacht.Und sie geht noch bis zum Sonntag.Dabei können die…
#Leipzig #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Barrierefrei #barrierefreiheit #Fete #Germany #HansChristianAndersen #Juden #JüdischeWoche #JüdischesLeben #leipzig #Magdeburg #Musik #NachrichteninLeichterSprache #Parks #Sachsen #Synagoge #Tiefurt #Tipps #Weimar #Wochenende
https://www.europesays.com/de/207041/

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Favourite Book Covers and Why
#WritingCommunity #WriterCommunity #BloggingCommunity #BloggerCommunity #WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge #Challenge #Wednesday #blog #HansChristianAndersen #Gatsby #TheJoker #AChristmasCarol #BookCovers #Books

http://georgelthomas.com/2025/06/04/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-favourite-book-covers-and-why/

La Ausencia y la Tempestad
https://youtu.be/MkbbAwaZM9I

Pauline Viardot-Garcia was a talented #soprano, #pianist, and #composer # the daughter of the famous Spanish baritone Manuel García, who settled in Paris in the early 19th century.
Pauline Viardot-Garcia befriended a great many personalities from cultural elite of the time, among them the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen.

@classicalmusic
#hanschristianandersen
#classicalmusic #artmusic
#mirrorofthesun #viaartiskonsort

#Denmark is more than #Greenland. It is also the home country of the famous author #HansChristianAndersen, who not only wrote "The Little Mermaid", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Snow Queen" and "The Ugly Duckling" but also "The Emperor's New Clothes".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

And to those of you who have forgotten: the Emperor was (and still is) naked.

Da, wie vorhin erwähnt, heute der Geburtstag von #HansChristianAndersen ist, hab ich mal einen seiner #Märchen eingelesen: https://youtu.be/fEB60oLi7kg
#Lesung

Heute vor 220 Jahren wurde #HansChristianAndersen geboren. Können Sie zur Feier des Tages einen richtigen Downer ertragen? Wer sich bereit fühlt, folge uns zum Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/Downer

#HansChristianAndersen​ was born 2 April 1805. Sadly, he was a self-hating gay Ugly Duckling who never found true love in real life. He is a beloved saint of #Antinous for inspiring us to discover our own inner beauty. Watch the classic Disney toon: https://youtu.be/RCX-mPstrPU?feature=shared

The Pretty Duckling (2022) [3 min] by Justine King | #USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBTN3pLfAIU

Day 19 #ArtAdventCalendar: my #linocut of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale Thumbelina (Tommelise) I made for #FolktaleWeek2024.

In my illustration with collaged Japanese papers, Thumbelina rides the swallow, narrator of our tale, at the moment she finally meets someone her size and to her liking, in the tiny flower-fairy prince, surrounded by flowers.

The last #FolktaleWeek2024 prompt is #FolktaleWeekBlossom so I printed an illustration of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale Thumbelina (Tommelise).

In my #linocut illustration with collaged Japanese papers, Thumbelina rides the swallow, narrator of our tale, at the moment she finally meets someone her size and to her liking, in the tiny flower-fairy prince, surrounded by flowers.

A very short and almost unknown tale by Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen is set to music by Danish ensemble Via Artis Konsort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOttMfyn9bk
With English and Spanish subtitles :)

The very interesting context for Andersens tale is resumed in this short article: https://ballhaus.dk/en/post/tale-of-the-cigar

#classicalmusic #classicalmusicandbeyond
@classicalmusic
#hanschristianandersen
#hcandersen
#mirrorofthesun
#viaartiskonsort

'The tale of the cigar' is a very short and almost unknown text by Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen.
The text is also a sociopolitical statement on slavery.
Discover it in a musical set-up: https://ballhaus.dk/en/post/tale-of-the-cigar

#hcandersen #hanschristianandersen #classicalmusic #cubanmusic #viaartiskonsort
@classicalmusic
@music

A tiny almost unknown tale by Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen is set to music by Danish ensemble Via Artis Konsort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOttMfyn9bk
With English and Spanish subtitles :)

The very interesting context for Andersens text is resumed in this short article: https://ballhaus.dk/en/post/tale-of-the-cigar

#classicalmusic #classicalmusicandbeyond
@classicalmusic
#hanschristianandersen
#hcandersen
#mirrorofthesun
#viaartiskonsort

Min Tankes Tanke ene du er vorden,
Du er mit Hjertes første Kærlighed.
Jeg elsker Dig, som Ingen her på Jorden,
Jeg elsker Dig i Tid og Evighed!

https://www.liederabend.cat/ca/bloc/entrades/1401-lied-en-catala-per-que-no

@robertgarrigos #músicaclassica #classicalmusic #klassischemusik #kunstLlied #ArtSong @classicalmusic #EdvardGrieg #HansChristianAndersen

I found an earlier mention of the view that HC Andersen was a trans woman.

Nat Hurley, "The Little Transgender Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale" in: M. Reimer et al. (eds.), Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), pp. 258-280.

To be clear, Hurley herself does not make that claim but she does mention it.

#TheLittleMermaid
#TransChristianAndersen #HansChristianAndersen