TEA BENDIX AND SVEND ERIK ENGH AT A LIVE PRESENTATION OF "Danish Folk Tales"
24 tales from the depths of folklore break new ground as an audiobook. There is no reading here. Svend Erik Engh tells the stories straight from the experience, almost as when the stories were created – around the Viking bonfire, at the courthouse, in the field workers' ditch or in the common room on the lord's estate.
The stories often feature a certain old woman, and sometimes Our Lord or the Devil himself. And every time they open their mouths, they speak in a funny contemporary Copenhagener suburbian dialect with accompanying exclamations and cartoon sounds.
In the latter half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, many of these stories were collected and written down by the conscientious folklore collector Evald Tang Kristensen.
Svend-Erik Engh is, although he now lives in Edinburgh, one of the leading figures on the Danish storytelling scene. He tells Viking stories, Nordic myths and Scandinavian folk tales and legends. In addition to telling at festivals and on stages around the world, he gives storytelling workshops in schools and community centers, Viking games, Viking stories and myths about the Nordic gods.
Most of the present folk tales have followed Svend Erik Engh for 30 years as a storyteller and as a father of three children. They naturally found their way into the English-language book Danish Folk Tales published in 2023 by the English History Press, illustrated by the Danish cartoonist Tea Bendix.
Tea and the drawings also made their way into the universe of the audiobook, which lets us look at the drawings while we hear the stories.
Tea Bendix is a multi-artist born in 1970 – author, graphic designer, illustrator and performer. Creates visual stories in books, on the screen, in urban space, in exhibitions and on stage as concerts and live drawing.
Tea is educated at the Design School in Kolding, Department of Graphic Design and Illustration 1993, graduating from the Danish Design School's Department of Visual Communication 1996 and from the Writers' School for Children's Literature at the Center for Children's Literature 2001. Own design studio since 1998.
From the book Danish Folk Tales, stories and drawings naturally streams into narrated versions in english and in danish in this audiobook published on Storybox.dk.