Thomas Bredsdorff, literary scholar and critic and former professor of Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen, gives a lecture on the 18th-century poet Johannes Ewald, a true Copenhagener who lived at no fewer than four different addresses in the city.
The talk looks at both his life and his views, with a focus on how Ewald wrote about the wider world and about the inner life of the individual. It is part of the spring 2027 lecture series Digternes København, which explores how Copenhagen and city life shaped the lives and writing of some of Denmark's greatest poets, and what role the churches played in the urban landscape.
