Childhood

How intense can a life be? Tove Ditlevsen writes about a woman's life, her own, as moving and universal as no one else. "Childhood" tells of growing up in 1920s Copenhagen in the simplest of circumstances. Tove doesn't fit in there; her childhood seems made for another girl. Her mother is distant, and her father loses his job as a stoker. Together with her friend, the wild Ruth, Tove explores the city. But what she really cares about is the world of books, and she has a burning desire to become a writer, for which she is willing to leave everything behind. Tove Ditlevsen's masterpiece, the Copenhagen Trilogy, is celebrated worldwide as a great literary rediscovery.

Unabridged reading with Dagmar Manzel
3 CDs | approx. 3 h 17 min.