Did agricultural workers in the early 1900s read literature? This three-part reading circle explores the connection between literature and farming, between words and revolt, through poetry and fiction from farm workers' trade papers.
The first session looks at literary content in the papers Tyende-Bladet and Landarbejderen, reading and discussing both classics and curiosities. The following two sessions follow farm literature onward, from texts of the 1970s on farming, environment, new ways of living and utopias, up to Malte Tellerup's novel Hedeselskabet, discussed against current debates on Danish agriculture.
The sessions are led by researchers from the Workers' Museum project on the forgotten cultural and literary history of the trade press. Participants get a taste of the project's database of about 100,000 digitised, freely accessible pages of trade papers, and the reading material is handed out at the sessions. The price includes the literary event 'Malte Tellerup - Landbrugsrevolution' as an extra.
