What makes a society sentence a person to death, and what do the stories of condemned criminals reveal about the society that judged them? This evening combines history and conversation, drawing on accounts of crime, punishment and justice in 19th-century Denmark.
Authors Søren Møgelvang Nielsen and Michael Bach take the audience into the stories behind death sentences in 19th-century Denmark. Based on real lives, they unfold a brutal and fascinating piece of Danish history, featuring murderers, bigamists, counterfeiters, arsonists and many others, and showing how living conditions, social background and chance could decide a person's fate.
The evening opens and closes with conversation at the tables, giving room to share thoughts, hear other perspectives and think things through together. Whether your interest is history, justice and moral choices, or simply understanding the past and ourselves better, this is an evening for curious minds.
