Black Madonna – is back on Teater Sort/Hvid & Aarhus
The race-erasing show by Madame Nielsen & Christian Lollike stirred the Danish public into a foaming race-race. The show transgressed the stage borders and fourth and fifth walls out into the public space and the social networks. It includes Sister Nielsen’s own black songs, viral music videos and much more. Until the 12th performance the show was named and publicited as White Nigger / Black Madonna but then – of reasonable reasons – reduced to its initial title.
Black Madonna is part 1 of a beyond-the-races work, which also includes:
PART 2: “Who, what, why is she” + “2 x Black Messiah” – a photo exhibition by Mdm Nielsen, Lollike and Sofie Amalie Klougart
The Endless Summer (Der endlose Sommer) staged in Köln Schauspiel
In March 2020, the world-enchanting best selling love novel DER ENDLOSE SOMMER (The Endless Summer / Den endeløse sommer) will be transformed into a stage performance at SCHAUSPIEL KÖLN, directed by the young German director starlette LUCIA BIHLER.
LEUKERBAD: 26.-28. June, Madame Nielsen will – for the first time in her life – show up in the Swiss mountains at Literaturfestival Leukerbad
ERNEN: Sunday 21. July, Madame Nielsen will enter the stage at the festival Queerlesen in Musikdorf Ernen, to read and discuss Der endlose Sommer with Bettina Böttinger
Alverdensvandringerne – to write the world wandering
In March, the young publishers at Herman & Frudit will publish Madame Nielsens Alverdensvandringerne:
Since 2013, Madame Nielsen has been writing the world on the roads: criss-crossing Europe, popping up in Ethiopia, traversing Mexico City, Saint Petersburg & The Pentland Hills, singing the world into language, and every step and every new turn, city, landscape has changed her voice and she made it all appear anew.
Alverdensvandringerne live in concert: Turning the words into music in an text+sound-impro-dialogue with electronical wizzard Mads Emil Nielsen and local stars
24. April 19:30 hrs. at Cafe Hack, Aarhus Teater: Madame Nielsen & Mads Emil Nielsen & guitarist Gorm Askjær
25. april 19.30 hrs at Litteraturhuset Nybrogade 28, København: Madame Nielsen & Mads Emil Nielsen & guitarist Joel Gjærsbøl
The new book by Madame Nielsen & Mikkel Bolt published by Antipyrine
I årene 2005-2007 førte Mikkel Bolt og den navnløse repræsentant for Das Beckwerk en række samtaler om kunsten, livet og revolutionen. Resultatet blev bogen I sammenbruddets tjeneste, der udkom i efteråret 2008. I samtalerne diskuterede Bolt og den navnløse repræsentant ikke blot forholdet mellem kunst og revolution i dag, de forudså også finanskrisen og det accelerede politiske kaos, vi har levet i siden. Sammenbrud over hele linjen.
Ti år efter var bogen og dens temaer aktuelle som aldrig før. Derfor besluttede Mikkel Bolt og den forhenværende navn- løse, nu såkaldte Madame Nielsen at mødes igen og fortsætte samtalen for at afgøre fremtiden for revolutionen og livet hinsides kunsten på Planeten Jorden.
Det blev til i alt to samtaler, som denne gang foregik foran et publikum på teatret Sort/Hvid i København og under ledelse af Christian Lollike. Samtalerne med deres plan for en erobring af undtagelsestilstanden foreligger nu på skrift under overskriften:
16 – 30 November, Literaturhaus Berlin is devoting the entire building in Fasanenstrasse to a Madame Nielsen Werkschau.
The work and search beyond identities from 2001 and onwards is shown in objects, videos, pictures and texts.
The opening night took place as A Madame Nielsen Evening
The German filmstar Sabin Tambrearead the German translations of 3 Madame Nielsen novels, and Julia Encke, editor at Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung moderated the discussion.
The Nielsen Sisters as trio – Sister Nielsen, Sister Anja Lahrmann & Sailor Simon Toldam – made the midnight hour be forever.
Monday 26 November at Schauspiel Köln, Madame Nielsen met on stage with Jakob Augstein, chief editor and son af the legendary founder and editor of Der Spiegel Rudolf Augstein and also of the grand old author Martin Walser. The dialogue will be broadcasted on WDR 3 and published in the weekly newspaper Freitag.
Alex Ahrendtsens Danmarksscene (The Vision of the Danish Peoples Party)
As part of the multi-national performance on nationalisms and national emotions Topographies of Paradise, Madame Nielsen in collaboration with Alex Ahrendtsen – Cultural Spokesperson for the Danish Peoples Party – has developed and staged Mr. Ahrendtsen’s personal vision of The Danish Scene.
Friday 12 October at Skuespilhuset,The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, this outstanding national vison was shown 4! times. Starring: Karin Heinemeier, Sigurd Holmen Le Dous (& Madame Nielsen her very self)
The Invasion in Transit – novel as exhibition & performance
13. September – 10 February 2019 Madame Nielsen is part of the TRANSIT exhibition at museum KØS in Køge.
The bildungs-roman Invasionen (The Invasion) has turned into a three-dimensional space. And the Mexico City-walk is on show as a video-satellite in the museum café.
In early October, Madame Nielsen will complete her European Walk Over 7 Borders from 2015 with a 2-days walk fra Køge along the E-line to Copenhagen Central Station.
Madame Nielsen’s major project on European national(istic) visions culminated 25 August at The Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern during the Bergman Festival in Stockholm. In collaboration with 10 actors from 5 big European theatre houses associated in the pan-European stage arts organisation Mitos21 Madame Nielsen mapped and performed the multitude of nationalisms and separatisms, which are currently blooming all over the old continent.
During the coming season, the performance will – we hope – go on a small tour d’Europe to Belgrade, Copenhagen & Barcelona. Watch out for dates!
MADAME NIELSEN møder MIKKEL BOLT & CHRISTIAN LOLLIKE 10 år efter sammenbruddets!
I anledning af 10-året for bestselleren ”I sammenbruddets tjeneste” mødtes Madame Nielsen og Mikkel Bolt i december på Teater Sort/Hvid for i samtale med teaterdirektør Christian Lollike at diskutere fremtiden for revolutionen. Mere end 100 verdensborgere var op og sad med ører på stilke og fulgte den nådesløse dyst. Men netop da det afgørende svar skulle formuleres, måtte samtalen afbrydes og scenen ryddes.
I mere end en måned holdt verden vejret, før denne kunstens og intelligensens Bermuda-trekant i igen mødtes den sidste aften i januar for at give publikum de svar, vi ikke længere kan leve uden:
Hvad gør vi med det igangværende sammenbrud? Hvordan håndterer vi alle de sammenvævede kriser, økonomiens, den biosfæriske nedsmeltning, den såkaldte ‘flygtningekrise’, de politiske institutioners kollaps, den totalitære stramning og kunstens neoliberalisering? Hvilken strategi skal vi vælge: tilbagetrækning, konspiration, forræderi eller “den lange march gennem institutionerne”? Står vi stadig i sammenbruddets tjeneste, eller er det snarere Undtagelsestilstanden, vi vil erobre. Og hvem fanden er ”vi”? Og ikke mindst: Skal Bolt virkelig give sine døtre til revolutionen?
Var du der ikke? Så kan du få svaret senere på året, når tidsskriftet Vaganti et særnummer publicerer hele samtalen.
9 – 16 October, Madame Nielsen was participating in Mexico City’s Zocalo International Book Fair, presenting her first novel in Spanish: El verano infinito.
Read the wonderful review in the important Spanish newspaper: El Periodico
18 – 26 September, Madame Nielsen returned to her city of cities: Paris to promote the French translation of her novel The Endless summer – in French: l’Eté Infini, published by Editions Notabilia .
Read the spell-bound review in LIBERATION by author and Prix Médicis winner Mathieu Lindon
28 March, Madame Nielsens new novel DET HØJESTE VÆSEN (The Supreme Being) has now been by published simultaneously in Denmark and Norway by Gyldendal Publishers and Pelikanen.
Salon Madame Nielsen on Tour de Europe: Winter lair in Auschwitz
Madame Nielsen is on a never-ending tour with her Salon – including pianist and wizard of musical toys Sailor Toldam – visiting capitals and major cities all over Europe, from Stockholm to Berlin, Krakow and Paris. In each city Madame choses a proper residence and invites the local guests to her bedroom, where they are treated with songs, poetry and dance. In each city, Madame invites a special guest – the most influential female being of the region – to discus the problems of gender and the state of our planet.
At the moment, Madame and her Sailor have gone into winter lair, of all places: in Auschwitz.
NIELSEN, Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen’s film-in-3-parts about the work of Das Beckwerk, was premiered at the international documentary film festival CPH:DOX in November.
Thursday 31 March,Madame Nielsens enlightenment novel INVASIONEN (THE INVASION) was published (by Gyldendal Publishers), telling the tale of the long lost continent Europe in the year of 2015 where a new kind of humanity arrived.
The Nielsen Movement online-cinema has new films on the program:
THE NATIONAL BRAND, a tragic comedy about the famous storyteller H.C. Andersen/Nielsen’s claim to fame in Copenhagen, Berlin & New York
Watch also:
The Political Thrillers:
The Impossible Walk – documentary from Nielsens 2008-attempt to walk under The Flag of Friendship from to mountains between Iran and Afghanistan and down through the capital Kabul
Walking under a Banned Flag – documentary from Nielsens pre-revolution intervention into the dark matters of the Egyptian regime in November 2010 – an attempt to solve the new caricature crisis.
Colonizing Iran! (2006) – Nielsen & Altheimer staging the second Iranian Revolution
The Dramas:
The Language of Hope (2009) – starring Olaf Johannesen as the medium of Barak Obama
Reumertprisen 2003 – in 2003, Nielsen was awarded a Reumert Prize for “best playwright of the year”. Nielsen was expected to show up and receive the prize live and direct in the TV-show from The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. BUT: an alter ego showed up and took over the show.
Follow Madame Nielsen on her on-going pilgrimage through Europe (and beyond)!
Follow Madame ALIVE now in Tigres-vandringen crossing the red mountains of Aethiopia
Madame Nielsen is on a tour de Europe with her Salon. The arrival at each new city takes the form of a pilgrimage. Along the ways, Madame takes notes in her little white book and snap shots of herself and her surroundings with her very smart phone.
In mid-October, Madame Nielsen took the first step on a border crossing Odyssee:
Throughout October and November she walked all the way up through Europe, crossing the 7 borders from Greece in the south to The Land of DKay in the north.
And by the way she – by chance – followed the paths and constantly shifting ways of the wave of refugees:
From Greece into Macedonia into Serbia into Croatia into Slovenia into Austria into Germany into DKay
By the ways she wrote 7 big essays, which were currently published – one each week – in the newspapers Weekendavisen and Information.
And 31 March 2016 her border crossing novel INVASIONEN (THE INVASION) will come out.
World premiere at CPH-DOX: I gave my Body to The Revolution
The new film by The Nielsen Movement on CPH:DOX
8 and 10 November, the documentary film festival CPH:DOX dedicated an entire evening to the works of The Nielsen Movement and the movement’s ancestor Das Beckwerk:
Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen’s film-in-4-parts about Das Beckwerk
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I gave my Body to The Revolution, the agent-thriller-movie about Nielsens attempt to donate his other body to the revolution, on Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on a Holy Friday and – unforeseen – at the same time as 1 million furious Egyptians gathered on the square to support The Muslim Brotherhood.
appears before the world only when the body temperature rises above 40 degrees Celsius. In his elevated presence he has access to the time before creation When God was a Boy. As a true Saint he wrote down his vision, a most holy book now illuminated by Madam Karrebæk.
In May, Madame Nielsen left her beloved Paris to open a salon in her bedroom at the harbour front of Copenhagen. In Salon Madame Nielsen, the chosen few were be received around Madame’s bed. Accompanied by her pianist, Sailor Toldam, she entertained the guests with ballads, poetry and discourse on the most emergent topics of Today. Each night a special female guest arrived to discuss the feminine future of our world with Madame.
Among the excellent women guests were: stage director Elisa Kragerup, author Suzanne Brøgger, critics & novelist Leonora Christina Skov, politician Özlem Cekic, trend old lady of Danish performance art Kirsten Justesen and bishop Tine Lindhardt.
The Nielsen Sisters: Love & Peaces – new album out now!
22 April, the new The Nielsen Sisters album appeared on the planet as touchable matter – LP/vinyl, CD – and virtually as downloadable sound. The name of the darling is Love & Peaces.
“a disturbing album ( … ) the sweet music of the breakdown ( … ) a cabaret on the madness of humanity”
18 – 28 April, Nielsen – the author, playwright and metteur en scene of History – undertook a journey to universities and theatersthroughout Germany; eine Frühlings-Deutschlandsreise:
20. April: Berlin – Deutsches Theater
21 April: Berlin – Humboldt Universität
22 April: Göttingen – Georg-August Universität
23 April: Frankfurt – Schauspiel Frankfurt
24 April: Frankfurt – Goethe Universität
27 April: Ludwigsburg – Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg
Nielsen as Distinguished visiting professor at University of Aarhus
Throughout February 2015, Nielsen was residing in the Danish provincial capital Aarhus as distinguishedvisiting professor at Centre for Fictionality Studies at Aarhus University.
23 October, the Nordich Council nominated Nielsen-novel was published in Swedish translation as “Mina möten med de verkliga författerna” by Kabusa Böcker; and the book has been praised by the Swedish critics.
Thursday 25 September Sister Nielsen & Mads Emil Nielsen launched their new album The Transformer; an album made almost only from (millions of) Sister Nielsen voices.
Saturday 16 August Nielsen was in Grimstad to present his Claus Beck-Nielsen novel Mine møder med De Danske Forfattere and discuss the political and aesthetic pros and cons of the Austrian author Peter Handke.
Miss World is the guardian angel of all the peoples in the World.
No matter where in the world there is a conflict, Miss World arrives to encourage the individuals and heal the fractures.
Throughout May and June, Miss World has travelled all over Ukraine – from Kiev along the border to Donbas to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa in the south and Lviv in the West – in her white dress, with her black guitar and her bright songs.
Miss World is singing to the Ukrainians about the Russians, and to the Russians about the Ukrainians.
And at the end of the song we will all just be human.
Follow Miss World – The Guardian Angel in Ukraine on her Angel’s WingBook
The new major performance by La Nielsen Transformatoren (The Transformer)took over CaféTeatret in Copenhagen; a performance of the being beyond age and gender; the new feminine selves of La Nielsen, travelling through the bodies, movements, images and voices of those who were before: Blixen, Bausch, Ofelia, Antigone, Medea, PJ, Michael(a) Jackson, female samurais, amazones, reptiles, birds and others of the millions of Others.
The European Media on Kampnagel, Hamburg & HAU, Berlin – directed by Nielsen
In November-December 2013 Nielsen has been staging The European Media with German actors/mediums at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. The production was subsequently shown at HAU in Berlin as part of the NordWind Festival.
Nominated for the major Nordic Literature Prize – 2014
The Claus Beck-Nielsen-novel Mine Møder med De Danske Forfattere (My Encounters with The Danish Authors) has been nominated for the major Nordic Council Literature Prize.
I am fiction – the movie about the Trial now on TV
I am Fiction (Identitetstyveriet) – director Max Kestner’s movie about the High Court-trialThomas Skade-Rasmussen versus Nielsen & Gyldendal Publishers, and the tragical consequences of the verdict – was shown on Danish television:
The oldest of The Nielsen Sisters has moved to Paris,
and in her new home in the 10th arrondissement Sister Nielsen is holding a monthly “salon”, where she is receiving guests and treating them with music, dance and poetry reading.
The first three “salons” took place on
Friday 19 April, Thursday 16 May and Friday 14 June
5-9 September Nielsen & Sisters performed at “Meridian Czernowitz – III International Poetry Festival” in the Ukranian city of Czernowitz. Visit the festival program
Store Satans Fald (Fall of The Great Satan) – a novel
Denmark & Norway
Torsdag 23. august udkom Nielsens nye roman Store Satans Fald simultant på Gyldendal i Danmark og på forlaget Oktober i Norge.
Romanen fik 5 stjerner og hjerter i Politiken, Berlingske Tidende og Jyllands Posten.
I Danmarks Radio sagde Klaus Rothstein “Den roman rummer nogle af de mest fascinerende og grænseoverskridende og uheldsvangre passager, jeg nogensinde har læst i en dansk roman.”
Og i Kristeligt Dagblad skrev Lars Handsten “en større litterær og kunstnerisk begivenhed, som fornyer litteraturens etiske, politiske og eksistentielle potentiale.”
Nielsen’s new novel Fall of the Great Satan was published 23 August by Gyldendal Publishers (Denmark) and Oktober (Norway)
Friday 27 April Saint Nielsen made his second attempt on a full and real resurrection. A reenactment of his first attempt on 22 January. He was once again assisted by his Banned Band.
Sunday 8 April Agent Nielsen returned to Cairo to make the third and final attempt to free the plaster copy of Claus Beck-Nielsens body. In September 2010 the effigy was shipped to Cairo as a representative of the universal state citizen to have it’s death bed and burial in the City of the Dead. At the arrival in Cairo Airport it was seized by the Egyptian Intelligence Service, who suspected it of being a statue of the Prophet Mohammad. A few weeks later Agent Nielsen arrived and made his first attempt to free the statue, but he too ended up in the hands of the Egyptian Security Service. This may have been the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution, which culminated a month later in January 2011. Since then – for almost 1½ years – the statue has been considered lost in the post-revolutionary turmoil. But in March 2012 the Danish Embassy in Cairo reported that a private Egyptian individual, a Mr. Eng. Hazem had put it on sale for 5000 Egyptian Pounds. According to himself he had bought it from the Customs (a.k.a. the Security Service?). This final mission of Agent Nielsen was to redeem the statue and – on Friday 13 April after the morning prayer – to let six Egyptian revolutionaries carry the statue through the streets of Cairo to Tahrir Square and finally “bury” it in the hands of The People and the Revolution.
Tuesday 10 April
The statue tracked down in a warehouse in Giza, home of the Pharaos:
Friday 13 April – Mission completed!
The Body as a sign: White Man’s Metamorphoses
the transformation from the ideal world citizen through Mohammad caricature, black market commodity, Jesus figurine, hostage, freed and finally a gift to the People, who immediately transforms the ideal man into the Evil himself: Omar Suleiman:
