Rune T. Kidde
Encyclopedia
Rune Torstein Kidde is a Danish writer
, storyteller
, musician
and artist
. He is son of illustrator
and painter
Thormod Kidde (19 July 1925 - 19 February 1996) and ceramist Ragnhild Kidde (6 March 1929 - 16 September 1997). He graduated from Vestfyns Gymnasium in 1976 and has studied theology
for short while. Rune T. Kidde is a multi-talented artist
and has released both humorous cartoons, poems, novels, children's books and biographies. Additionally, he has made radio features
to the Danish Children's Radio and is a folk singer
, poet and dramatic.
Rune T. Kidde was a prominent member of 1970s
Danish cartoon underground. He published "Fields'isten" and fanzines such as "Blomstrende Spaghetti" (Flowering Spaghetti), "Knulp" and "Kong Knud" (King Canute). In 1977 he co-founded the publishing company Baldur og Brage who published the first Danish undergrounds periodica with comics "På Stribe". In 1979 he co-founded the cartoon studio Gimle
together with fellow cartonist Peter Madsen
and in 1984 was a founding member of Tegneserieværkstedet (the comics workshop). Rune T. Kiddes own debut as cartoonist was the albums "Rune T. Kidde" and "De siger så meget" (They say so much) in 1980 and up through the eighties he released a number of comics, as well as the illustrated handbook "Øldrikkerens Lille Grønne" (The Beer Drinkers Little Green - a pun on chairman Mao's Little Red Book). In 1975 Rune T. Kidde founded Folkebvægelsen for W. C. Fields (The People's Movement for W. C. Fields
) - one of his great idols. He also made himself honorary member of the movement. In 1990 he lost his eyesight, which was difficult to combine with cartoon production. Still, Rune T. Kidde continued to produce comics and picture books, where other artists - especially Jørgen Mogensen - drawed according to his directives.
From 1980-1981 he worked as an editor at the comic book publishing company Interpresse, where he edited the The Phantom
, Beetle Bailey
, "Komix" and "Underground." During this time he worked with leading cartonists such as Mort Walker
, Will Eisner
and Gilbert Shelton
. Throughout the eighties he worked as an illustrator and writer for Danish newspapers and magazines such as Ekstrabladet, Politiken
, Svikmøllen
, Euroman and many fanzines.
s P1, P2 and P3. Among other things he produced travel features from China
, Japan
, the Caribbean
, and the Faroe Islands
. He also made a dramatization of The Fellowship of the Ring
and his own "Snabelsko and gåsetænder" for the P3 program Børneradio (Kids Radio).
"Rejsen til Alvilva" (The Journey to Alvilva) which is built upon the fairytale of Big Klaus and Little Klaus and was his first work of prose. In 1997 he published "Midt i himlen, midt i havet" (In the midst of the sea, in the midst of heaven), which is a partly autobiographical novel about being blind. In 2010, his experimental psychological thriller, "Julius afsind" (Julius madness) was chosen as one of the six best books of the year by Danmarks Radio's novel price committee. The following year he published "The Truths Devil's claw," a literary fable
of the Russian mystic
Rasputin's life.
W. C. Fields
and "Thormod Kidde, kvindfolk" (Thormod Kidde, womenfolk)(2002) about his father illustrator Thormod Kidde. Moreover, in 2007 he published his autobiography "Scribbles, scrabble and creative antics". His interest in personal history is also reflected in a comprehensive family history research, and he stands behind the website haraldkidde.dk about the Dnish author Harald Kidde
, which also contains information about his brother the conservative politician
Aage Kidde.
and singer and is active in Trio Confetti. In 2000 he wrote a libretto
for the children's opera "Heksemutter Mortensen og den fede kalkun" (Whitch mother Mortensen and the fat Turkey) for the The Danish Royal Theatre, with music provided by the composer
Fuzzy. The opera was directed by Kasper Holten. He has also written lyrics for other artists including Nanna Lüders Jensen
and folk singer Bente Kure.
in 1983 with the play "En måge over Ejer Bavnehøj" (A seagull over Ejer Bavnehøj) at Det Danske Teater and as an actor in 2005 in Jon Bang Carlsen's English language movie Blinded Angels which takes place in Cape Town
in South Africa
.
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, storyteller
Storytelling
Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds, often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and in order to instill moral values...
, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
and artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. He is son of illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
and painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
Thormod Kidde (19 July 1925 - 19 February 1996) and ceramist Ragnhild Kidde (6 March 1929 - 16 September 1997). He graduated from Vestfyns Gymnasium in 1976 and has studied theology
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
for short while. Rune T. Kidde is a multi-talented artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and has released both humorous cartoons, poems, novels, children's books and biographies. Additionally, he has made radio features
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
to the Danish Children's Radio and is a folk singer
Folk Singer
Folk Singer is a 1964 album by Muddy Waters. Waters plays acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar...
, poet and dramatic.
Rune T. Kidde was a prominent member of 1970s
1970s
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Danish cartoon underground. He published "Fields'isten" and fanzines such as "Blomstrende Spaghetti" (Flowering Spaghetti), "Knulp" and "Kong Knud" (King Canute). In 1977 he co-founded the publishing company Baldur og Brage who published the first Danish undergrounds periodica with comics "På Stribe". In 1979 he co-founded the cartoon studio Gimle
Gimlé
In Norse mythology, Gimlé was a place where the survivors of Ragnarök were to live. It is mentioned in the Prose Edda and Völuspá and described as the most beautiful place on Earth, more beautiful than the Sun....
together with fellow cartonist Peter Madsen
Peter Madsen
Peter Planch Madsen is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Lyngby Boldklub on loan from Brøndby IF...
and in 1984 was a founding member of Tegneserieværkstedet (the comics workshop). Rune T. Kiddes own debut as cartoonist was the albums "Rune T. Kidde" and "De siger så meget" (They say so much) in 1980 and up through the eighties he released a number of comics, as well as the illustrated handbook "Øldrikkerens Lille Grønne" (The Beer Drinkers Little Green - a pun on chairman Mao's Little Red Book). In 1975 Rune T. Kidde founded Folkebvægelsen for W. C. Fields (The People's Movement for W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields
William Claude Dukenfield , better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer...
) - one of his great idols. He also made himself honorary member of the movement. In 1990 he lost his eyesight, which was difficult to combine with cartoon production. Still, Rune T. Kidde continued to produce comics and picture books, where other artists - especially Jørgen Mogensen - drawed according to his directives.
From 1980-1981 he worked as an editor at the comic book publishing company Interpresse, where he edited the The Phantom
The Phantom
The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla.The Phantom is...
, Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey is an American comic strip set in a fictional United States Army military post, created by cartoonist Mort Walker. It is among the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator...
, "Komix" and "Underground." During this time he worked with leading cartonists such as Mort Walker
Mort Walker
Addison Morton Walker , popularly known as Mort Walker, is an American comic artist best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He has signed Addison to some of his strips.Born in El Dorado, Kansas, he grew up in Kansas City, Missouri...
, Will Eisner
Will Eisner
William Erwin "Will" Eisner was an American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an...
and Gilbert Shelton
Gilbert Shelton
Gilbert Shelton is an American cartoonist and underground comix artist. He is the creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog, Philbert Desanex, Not Quite Dead, and the cover art to The Grateful Dead's 1978 album Shakedown Street.He graduated from Lamar High...
. Throughout the eighties he worked as an illustrator and writer for Danish newspapers and magazines such as Ekstrabladet, Politiken
Politiken
Politiken is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.The newspaper comes third among Danish newspapers in terms of both number of readers and circulated copies ....
, Svikmøllen
Svikmøllen
Svikmøllen is a satirical Danish annual magazine published by Aschehoug. It contains cartoons and text by various illustrators and humorists lampooning events in the past year...
, Euroman and many fanzines.
Radio
From 1990-2000 Kidde was freelancer for Danmarks RadioDanmarks Radio
DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...
s P1, P2 and P3. Among other things he produced travel features from China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
, and the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
. He also made a dramatization of The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It takes place in the fictional universe Middle-earth. It was originally published on July 29, 1954 in the United Kingdom...
and his own "Snabelsko and gåsetænder" for the P3 program Børneradio (Kids Radio).
Literature
He debuted as a literary author with a volume of poems called "Gjort bedre før" (Done better before) in 1983. In 1993 he published his first novelNovel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
"Rejsen til Alvilva" (The Journey to Alvilva) which is built upon the fairytale of Big Klaus and Little Klaus and was his first work of prose. In 1997 he published "Midt i himlen, midt i havet" (In the midst of the sea, in the midst of heaven), which is a partly autobiographical novel about being blind. In 2010, his experimental psychological thriller, "Julius afsind" (Julius madness) was chosen as one of the six best books of the year by Danmarks Radio's novel price committee. The following year he published "The Truths Devil's claw," a literary fable
Fable
A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized , and that illustrates a moral lesson , which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.A fable differs from...
of the Russian mystic
Mysticism
Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...
Rasputin's life.
Biographies and Family History
Besides his works of fiction Rune T. Kidde has written three biographies. Starting with "Leveomkostningerne er steget med en femmer per halvflaske - en bog om W. C. Fields" (The cost of living has risen by a fiver per half bottle - a book about W. C. Fields" (1986) about the American comedianComedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields
William Claude Dukenfield , better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer...
and "Thormod Kidde, kvindfolk" (Thormod Kidde, womenfolk)(2002) about his father illustrator Thormod Kidde. Moreover, in 2007 he published his autobiography "Scribbles, scrabble and creative antics". His interest in personal history is also reflected in a comprehensive family history research, and he stands behind the website haraldkidde.dk about the Dnish author Harald Kidde
Harald Kidde
Harald Henrik Sager Kidde was a Danish writer and brother to the politician Aage Kidde. He is best known for the novel Helten , which is one of the key novels in Danish literaturev . Kidde died of Spanish Flu in 1918...
, which also contains information about his brother the conservative politician
Politician
A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
Aage Kidde.
Musician
Rune T. Kidde is also an accomplished musicianMusician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
and singer and is active in Trio Confetti. In 2000 he wrote a libretto
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
for the children's opera "Heksemutter Mortensen og den fede kalkun" (Whitch mother Mortensen and the fat Turkey) for the The Danish Royal Theatre, with music provided by the composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
Fuzzy. The opera was directed by Kasper Holten. He has also written lyrics for other artists including Nanna Lüders Jensen
Nanna Lüders Jensen
Nanna Lüders Jensen , known by the stage name of Nanna, is a Danish songwriter and singer. She is best known for her hit single "Buster" from 1984, the theme song for Bille August's children's television series and movie Busters verden. Since then she has released several albums...
and folk singer Bente Kure.
Movies and theatre
Kidde made his debut as a playwrightPlaywright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
in 1983 with the play "En måge over Ejer Bavnehøj" (A seagull over Ejer Bavnehøj) at Det Danske Teater and as an actor in 2005 in Jon Bang Carlsen's English language movie Blinded Angels which takes place in Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
.
Cartoons
- Rune T. Kidde, 1980
- Man siger så meget, 1980
- Gal og normal, 1982
- Må jeg høfligst anmode dem om at tage denne sag alvorligt, 1984
- Litterærlige klassikere, 1988
- Menigmands guide til det indre marked, 1992
Poetry
- Gjort bedre før, 1983
- Fuglefri, 1998
- Hvor er fyrvogteren?, 2002
- Året rundt på gulvet - hyldest til ottetallet, 2005
Novels
- Rejsen til Alvilva, 1993
- Midt i himlen, midt i havet, 1997
- Da Henry Høj gik over i historien, 2000
- Hr. og fru Dicht i Island, 2008
- Julius afsind, 2009
- Sandhedens djævlekløer, 2011
Biographies
- Leveomkostningerne er steget med en femmer per halvflaske - en bog om W. C. Fields, 1986
- Øllet blev hans skæbne, 1999
- Thormod Kidde - Kvindfolk, 2002
- Kruseduller, kragetæer og kreative krumspring (autobiography), 2007
External sources and references
- Anders T. Jensen, Karsten J Jørgensen (ed.), Adventurous Rune T. Kidde, Ultima, 1994
- Rune T. Kidde: Scribbles, scrabble and creative antics, Modtryk, 2007
- Rune T. Kiddes website http://www.runetkidde.dk
- Tegneseriemuseet (Danish Cartoon Museum)
- Website about author Harald Kidde and the Kidde family http://www.haraldkidde.dk
- Ping Award
- DR Novel Prize 2009 - nomination http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Kultur/Laeseklubber/Romanklubben/Artikler/20091120103525.htm
- Biography at Forfatterweb