Else Lidegaard

Else Lidegaard (23 February 1933 – 4 August 2025) was a Danish journalist and author.

Early life and career

Lidegaard was born in Røsnæs, near Kalundborg, on 23 February 1933. She was employed by Danmarks Radio for many years, from 1969 as a temporary employee and in the period 1976–96 as a permanent employee. At DR she produced over 150 broadcasts, most of them about cultural encounters, e.g. the series Med Danmark i Zimbabwe (1986) and Så er de andre (1991), but also literary portraits, including Grundtvig (1972), William Heinesen (1980) and Simone de Beauvoir (1983).[1]

In 1974 she received the Rocking Chair Prize, for the broadcast Barbara, poem and reality. In addition, Lidegaard wrote travel books during stays in Africa and Patagonia.[2]

She was the initiator of the movement Grandparents For Asylum.[3]

Personal life and death

Lidegaard was married to Mads Lidegaard, but divorced in 2003.[4] They had four children, Øjvind, Kresten, Bo, and Martin. While her husband was a seminary teacher in Greenland from 1953 to 1961, she worked as a teacher at the secondary school and for the Greenland Radio.[5]

Lidegaard died on 4 August 2025, at the age of 92.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Else Lidegaard". Lex (in Danish). 4 August 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  2. ^ Lidegaard, Else (1 March 2011). Kære Estrid - Jørgen-Frantz, du kære: Et møde med forfatteren og modellen til Barbara gennem deres breve til hinanden [Dear Estrid - Jørgen-Frantz, you dear: A meeting with the author and the model for Barbara through their letters to each other]. Gyldendal A/S. ISBN 978-87-02-10190-4.
  3. ^ "Spot på: Bedsteforældre for Asyl" [Spot on: Grandparents for Asylum]. Arbejderen (in Danish). Archived from the original on 19 February 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  4. ^ "Grønlands historie, fra stenalder til hjemmestyre" [Greenland's history, from the Stone Age to Home Rule]. ereolen.dk. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  5. ^ "Journalist Else Lidegaard er død - 92 år - dbrs.dk" [Journalist Else Lidegaard has died - aged 92 - dbrs.dk]. avisendanmark.dk (in Danish). 4 August 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  6. ^ Af /ritzau (4 August 2025). "Else Lidegaard er død" [Else Lidegaard is dead]. ekstrabladet.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 5 August 2025.
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