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news magazine - Danish Society
NEWS MAGAZINE
Registered with the Charities Commission
ISSN 0113-4965 ● July 2010
Movie Night
Friday, July 16th, 7.30pm
A new movie by Anders Matthesen
SORTE kugler (2009)
Come and watch a great comedy on a dark
winters night!
Come for coffee and cake and great company.
Free film plus coffee and cookies for members donations welcome. Non-members pay $5.
Coming up in August – the Annual
Winter Warm-Up
International Ethnic
Dance Extravaganza
Dancing, costumes & food
from around the world
Saturday, August 14th, 6-10pm
Also in August is a fun
Bingo Afternoon!
on Saturday, 21st August, 2 pm
Come to the
Open House
Sunday, July 4th from 2pm
Come and meet your friends or get
some new ones – Everyone is welcome!
Coffee & cake from $2.50
(Next Open House – Sunday, August 1st)
Den Danske
Mødregruppes
Midtvinter Julefrokost
The Danish Mothers’ Group
Mid-Winter Christmas Dinner
will be held on
Saturday 7th August 2010
at 6pm at the Danish House
This is a buffet dinner with everyone bringing
a dish (not pot-luck) and helping with
serving, set-up, tidy-up etc.
Tilmelding og buffet-ret til Randi
Edwards på tlf 630 1077 før 31. juli
Please contact Randi Edwards for further information
Wednesday Morning Group
Wednesday, July 28th, 10.30am
Carlo Mikkelsen –
More of the
Mark of Denmark
10.30 am Coffee and chat
11.00am More formal part of our gathering
Bring your Lunch to enjoy after the meeting. All welcome
THE DANISH SOCIETY (INC)
SUBSCRIPTIONS (2010 Financial Year – 1st Oct 2009 to 30th Sept 2010)
P. O. BOX 12 279 - PENROSE 1642
6 Rockridge Ave., Penrose, Auckland
Phone 580 3103
www.danishsocietynz.com
Member:
Senior rate: (65 & over)
Youth rate: (18 to 25)
Children under 18
Family discount: Less
Contact phone numbers
The Danish House
Valhalla, Leigh
580 3103
09 422 6194
REGULAR EVENTS
Committee
PRESIDENT
Inger Mortensen
443 5105
Email: president@danishsocietynz.com
VICE-PRESIDENT
Marion Stewart
480 8282
Email: vicepresident@danishsocietynz.com
TREASURER
Roger Knights
021 858 248
Email: treasurer@danishsocietynz.com
SECRETARY
Rolf Siggaard
528 2469
Email: secretary@danishsocietynz.com
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Antony Barrett
444 0939
Kim Basse
473 6455
Kurt Marquart
476 0244
Finn Nielsen
625 5533
Dawn Nissen
625 7396
EDITOR “NEWS MAGAZINE”
Pam Logan 480 9883
9 Puawai Place, Northcote, Auckland
E-mail: editor@danishsocietynz.com
PRODUCTION
John Stewart
480 8282
MAILOUT
Helle Scott
521 2844
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Kurt Marquart
476 0244
E-mail: membership@danishsocietynz.com
Other Addresses
ROYAL DANISH CONSULATE GENERAL
P.O. Box 619, Auckland 1
Fax 537 3067
Phone 537 3099
www.danishconsulatesnz.org.nz
THE TRADE COMMISSION OF DENMARK
P.O. Box 2154, Auckland 1
Fax 307 5207
Phone 379 3119
www.dtcauckland.um.dk
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH
1 Harris Rd (P O Box 85-014) Mt Wellington
Phone 579 4490
DANISH CHURCH NEW ZEALAND INC.
Pastor Anja Grønne Mathiassen
www.danishchurchnz.org
Ph 03 464 0218
RATES FOR VALHALLA
Peak
Members
Guests
Adults
$18
$30
Children
$9
$20
Off-Peak
Adults
$12
$30
Children
$6
$20
Whole house daily rate
Off-peak $120 Peak rate $270
Christmas season $320
Off-peak = Mid-week only excluding
Christmas season and school holidays
Peak = All school holidays, Christmas
season and all weekends.
Christmas season = Christmas Eve to the
end of Anniversary weekend.
The house can only be hired for 7 days at
any one time.
Call the Booking Officer: Marion Stewart,
88c Coronation Road, Hillcrest, NSC
P: 480 8282 E: valhalla@danishsocietynz.com
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$60 per member
$50 per member
$50 per member
Free
$10 per couple
DANISH HOUSE
An Open House is held on the first Sunday
of each month from 2pm.
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
DANISH MOTHERS’
GROUP
meets every 2nd Tuesday.
Call Christina on 021 161 3159 for venue.
are held on the second Monday of the
month at 7.30pm
FOLKDANCERS
VALHALLA WORKING BEES
meet at 7.30pm on the second and
fourth Tuesday of every month.
CARDPLAYERS
WEDNESDAY MORNING
GROUP
Working bees are usually held on the weekend
of the second Saturday of the month.
meet on the first and third Wednesday
of the month - 11am to 3pm
Meets on the fourth Wednesday
of every month at 10.30am.
QUICK CHECK CALENDAR
July
Sun 4
Wed 7
Sat 10 Tues 13
Fri 16
Wed 21
Tues 27
Wed 28
August
Sun 1
Sat 7
Open House
Card Players
Valhalla Working Bee
Folkdancing Social Night
Film Evening
Card Players
Folkdancing
Morning Group
Open House
Mother’s Group Frokost
Danish Classes
Wednesdays
Beginners 6.30-7.30pm
Intermediate 7.30-8.30pm
Private lessons are available on
Saturday mornings.
For more information call
Connie Kristensen
0274 757 565
Sat 14
Fri 20 Sat 21
Wed 25
September
Sun 1
Sat 11
Fri 17
Sat 18 October
Fri 15
Sun 31
Winter Warm-Up
Film Evening
Bingo
Morning Group
Open House
Valhalla Working Bee
Film Evening
Party
Film Evening
Over 60s party
Danish House Hall Hire Rates
Members rates for hiring the hall for the whole day at
the Danish House, Penrose.
Sunday to Friday inclusive
$100
Saturday:
$150
Half a day is $25 less. Funerals – no charge.
The bond is $150.00 per booking.
The booking/holding fee of $50.00 is deducted from
the total cost.
Call the Booking Officer:
Antony Barrett, Phone 444 0939
Committee Contacts & Convenors for Working Groups
Committee Contact Working Group
Cultural
Card Players
Danish lessons
Danish Mothers’ group
Films
Folk dancing
Library / Videos Society history
Welfare (Cards & Flowers)
Danish House
Bookings
Maintenance
Members
Membership Communication
Editor
Webmaster
Socials
Bar
Socials
Valhalla
Bookings & Maintenance
Working Bees
Convenor
Phone
Oluf Basse
534 2798
0274 757 565
Connie Kristensen
Christina Bengtson
021 161 3159
Kurt Marquart 476 0244
Finn Nielsen
625 5533
Helle Gilderdale
478 7016 Karen Yates
524 6016
Vibeke Courtney
576 3150
Antony Barrett
444 0939
Kim Basse
473 6455
Kurt Marquart 476 0244
email: membership@danishsocietynz.com
Pam Logan
480 9883
Lena Burlon
528 1108
email: webmaster@danishsocietynz.com
Finn Nielsen, 625 5533
Annette Jorna
630 8722
email: socials@danishsocietynz.com
Marion Stewart
480 8282
Erik Nissen
625 7396
Danish Society News Magazine ● July 2010
Culture, identity and the Football World Cup
There is nothing like a football world cup to make us
think about culture and identity. My work colleagues
have had many discussions about the world cup
and the sweepstake draw brought out all the strong
feelings about how we reflect on other countries and
how we reflect about ourselves.
So, if Denmark were playing New Zealand in the
football final, who would you support? Our club
president arrived at the committee meeting last
week wearing a Danish football strip and carrying a
Danish flag so there is no doubt which side she would
be on. Finn Nielsen went to the under 17 women’s
world football championship last year and held a New
Zealand flag and a Danish flag. Antony Barrett was
not sure who he would support in a game like that; he
would really have to think about it.
Danes will identify with some of the great soccer
players from the past. Do you remember Karl Aage
Praest who is regarded as one of Denmark’s greatest
players from the late 1940s. What about Poul Hansen
who played fifty games for the Danish side and was
part of the team who won silver in the 1960 Olympics?
Or Ole Madsen who was Danish player of the year in
1964 and scored 42 goals out of 50 games he played.
And what about Harald Nielsen who coerced the
Danish football association into starting a pro league.
Do you remember Allan Simonsen, Henning Jensen
both from the 1970’s and how about the very famous
Morton Olsen who has done wonderful things for
world football. This history and pride in our great
sports people is what makes us who we are.
New Zealanders have been following the all whites
with interest. Even in our Rugby mad nation one
cannot escape the moment of glory when New
Zealand qualified for the football world cup against
Bahrain. We value this soccer achievement because
we are such a small country and these efforts seem so
magnificent in comparison to the great nations on the
world.
“Go England” shouts my husband at the TV. There is
no doubting who he supports!
By Kim Basse
“Tak for målet –
thanks for the goal!”
The headline in the New Zealand Herald
on Thursday, June 17th.
FIFA World Cup News
The All Whites can actually thank Denmark for
Winston Reid, the hero who scored for New Zealand
in the very last moment in the match against Slovakia
and turned the seemingly inevitable loss to a 1-1 draw.
This young player was born in New Zealand to a
Kiwi father and a Danish mother. At the age of about
10-11, they went to Denmark, and Winston Reid went
to football school. In 2004, aged 15, he was discovered
by one of the biggest Danish clubs FC Midtjylland and
already the following year played an important role in
FCM securing the Danish championship.
July 2010 ● Danish Society News Magazine
The Danish team who played against the Netherlands.
He has represented FCM in 85 matches and has
played for Denmark in the U19, U20, and U21 teams.
In all, he represented Denmark in 15 youth matches.
In March 2010 he moved back to New Zealand so he
could represent the All Whites in the Fifa World Cup.
Winston Reid still officially plays for FCM, although the
club’s coaches realise that Reid may well end up going
to a foreign club now that he is getting famous.
The Danish media are quite excited about Reid’s goal
– Berlingske wrote: Finally a Danish goal!
by Inger Mortensen
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Football ‘live’ at Danish House
A small but very enthusiastic and dedicated group
of members got together very early – in fact 6am –
Sunday morning, 20 June, to watch Denmark playing
Cameroon at the soccer world cup tournament in
South Africa. This was Denmark’s second game.
They had to win to have any hope of staying in the
tournament following a loss to Netherlands in their
first game. Finn and Kurt had organised installation of a
SkyTV dish and Inger brought her decoder so we could
watch the game on the big screen in the Danish House.
As tradition has it, we all stood up and loudly and
proudly joined in on the national anthem waiving our
flags (in the absence of vuvuzela’s!). Plenty of coffee
and a wee bit of Gammel Dansk helped everyone wake
up and get in the right mood.
The game then got underway. When Cameroon
scored a goal only 10 minutes into the game the room
suddenly turned very quiet. More than a few anxious
faces were seen. Despair and disbelief. Was this really
the end of Denmark’s glory? We had to wait until the
33rd minute for another goal. This time in the right of
the field. Denmark was back in the game. A huge sigh
of relief from the hard tested audience! Maybe there
was still some ‘Danish Dynamite’ left.
Time
for some
breakfast and
more coffee
in the break.
Some quiet
confidence
among the
enthusiastic
crowd however also clear that this could go right down
to the wire. Too many missed chances but clearly
luck was on Denmark’s side that morning. Several
people in the room found it
hard to even breathe as the
excitement increased by the
minute. In the 61st minute
Denmark scored again.
Everyone were absolutely
ecstatic. Flags were waived
high. Maybe Denmark would
make it after all?
And they did indeed.
The end score was 2 - 1
to Denmark. This means
that Denmark has to beat Japan in the final game to
progress in the tournament.
Very appropriately some more Gammel Dansk was
served to celebrate the victory. What a terrific way to
start Sunday morning.
Sent in by Rolf Siggaard
Plenty to
buy at the
Danish
Society
shop
Ring
Oluf Basse
(534 2798)
for shop
opening times
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Danish Society News Magazine ● July 2010
A reply from
Queen Margrethe
Movie Review
Friday July 16th at 7.30pm
We will be showing
SORTE KUGLER (2009)
Synopsis (Comedy):
Alex Klein is a bankrupt real estate executive
whose life is on a collision course. He has a wife
who is thriving in success and a family whose
habits are driving him insane, not to mention
clients with bad taste and too much money. One
day, when things become real serious, he can
only weather the storm in his own repelling way.
starring:
Anders Matthesen, Søren Rislund, Søren
Malling, Julie Lund, Linda Pedersen, Rene Dif
director: Anders Matthesen
Missing
A set of bound copies of the Danish Society’s News
Magazines are missing from the library. The missing
magazines are from April 1973 to April 1991. If you have
borrowed this set of magazines, please return them to
the library. Thank you.
The Mark of Denmark
Through time, there have been a number of love
stories with tragic endings in the “Romeo and Juliet”
tenor. In one such event, Crown Prince Rudolf of
Austria and his lover took their lives in 1889. That
same year, Denmark too was the forum to a now well
known event with similar consequences. It involved a Danish tightrope walker and circus trick
rider by the name of Elvira Madigan, who was born
in Germany to a Norwegian mother and Danish
father. Her mother later lived with the American circus
manager John Madigan. The other party in this illicit
affair was a Swedish cavalry officer, Lieutenant Count
Bengt Edvard Sixten Sparre, who at the age of 35
was 14 years senior to Elvira Madigan. It all started
in Sweden where Elvira was performing with her
stepfather`s circus, and she met up with Count Sixten
Sparre after one of the shows.
It did not take long for the Count and Elvira to fall in
love, but it was an impossible situation, partly due to
the fact that Sixten Sparre was married and the father
July 2010 ● Danish Society News Magazine
of two children. After exchanging love letters for a
year, they eloped to Denmark in June 1889, where
they spent about a month. When they ran out of
money, they packed a picnic basket, and went out to
Noerreskov on the island of Taasinge. Here they had
their last meal together, after which and by consent,
the Count shot Elvira and killed himself with his service
revolver.
This took place on the 20th July 1889, when Elvira
was 21 years of age, the Count was 35 years old. Both
Elvira`s and Sixten Sparre`s graves are situated at the
cemetery of Landet on Taasinge, and are today often
visited by both
tourists, and
lovers from
all over
the world. Sent in by
Carlo MIkkelsen
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From the Valhalla Booking Officer
Part of my role as booking officer is to keep a record
of the number of occupants who stay at Valhalla over
the year, the split between members and guests and
the income from those that use Valhalla.
I have just completed a discussion paper for the
committee which threw up some interesting facts,
some of which I will share with you.
1 At the end of the 2009 financial year the occupancy
had increased by 45% since 2005.
2 This along with a slight increase in our rate charge
has increased our income by 55% since 2005.
3 This year the occupancy is running at a 25% increase
on last year.
4 The number of our adult members who use Valhalla
is well in excess of 120 and is more likely closer to
150. This is difficult to quantify as whole house
bookings are made by only one member but is
often with other members joining them.
All of this information is vital for the Valhalla Subcommittee and the Danish Society committee
when considering projects at Valhalla. The increased
occupancy figure is why we are currently concentrating
on the water reticulation in particular the well and the
quality of the water to the house. We need to ensure
the well is able to provide the increase in water usage,
the quality of the water is of a high standard and the
whole system is working correctly. Of course with an
increase in water coming into the house that reflects
on the amount of water leaving the house in both grey
and black water, which is why we are also looking at
our septic tank system and how we can improve it.
We are very fortunate to have both a geologist and a
drain layer amongst our members who are dedicating
many personal hours with their knowledge and skill
driving these two projects. Neither of these projects
could have been considered without parting with a
considerable amount of money to buy this skill had it
not been for these highly valued members.
We have many other projects on our plans still to be
implemented but until the water reticulation projects
are finalised and completed we do not want to overcommit either our workforce or our finances. Over the
next few months we are also concentrating on the revegetation. As our main planting calendar is between
now and September it is vital we concentrate our
workforce where it is needed most.
While members are thrilled with the improvements
to Valhalla so it seems are the mice. They are making
their presence known in the house. We are doing our
best to control this problem, but there is no quick fix.
Meanwhile keep all your food well covered and stored
away. In particular watch any open packets like biscuits
and cereal boxes.
I have formalised the guidelines for
using Valhalla. They will be included
with your booking confirmation,
please read carefully if you are
unsure of anything.
Marion Stewart
Valhalla Booking Officer
Danish hot dogs, roasted
marshmallows and
snobrødsdej at Skt Hans,
Sunday, June 20
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Danish Society News Magazine ● July 2010
We need your help!
at the next Valhalla Working Bees
10th-11th July
14th-15th August
We are seeking your support to carry out a whole range of jobs.
Our main focus will be to do outside jobs such as completing the steps, cleaning,
weeding and planting etc. There is always house-cleaning to do as well. Any help is
welcome. Lunch is supplied by the society, therefore we need to know the number of
participants by Wednesday 7th July.
If you are able to help in any way,
please contact Dawn or Erik Nissen on 625 7396
Valhalla Working Bee Report - June
Graham, Jes, Gitte and Erik arrived early on Friday
morning. With Kiwi Well-drillers on site, Jes and Gitte
and Erik were overlooking the extraction of the water
pump from the base and the cleaning and sterilisation
of the pump pipe and well. This took most of the
day. Graham sprayed , weeded and planted near the
estuary throughout the day.
On Saturday the planting team of Graham, Palle,
Erik, Tove, Antony, John and Hannah Nielsen spent the
day hard at work. Neil continued work on the deck,
building a pergola on Saturday and Sunday.
On Sunday planting was continued between showers
by Graham, Palle, Erik and Tove. Dawn defrosted all the
fridges and cooked for the group. Thanks to our small
but hard-working team.
Erik Nissen
The water pump being taken
out and cleaned by
Kiwi Well Drillers.
July 2010 ● Danish Society News Magazine
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Thank You Letters
Foreningsnyt
Many thanks to the Danish Society for
the beautiful flowers & kind wishes sent
to me on the occasion of my broken leg. They certainly
help to brighten the dark days of winter and are very
much appreciated.
Sincerely, Pat Basse
Also thanks to Vibeke & Neville who arranged and
delivered the flowers personally.
Congratulations to all the members
who have birthdays and the couples
who have an anniversary in July especially
Jytte Sharpe
som fylder 70 år d. 17.7.2010
Christine Futterup
som fylder 55 år d. 26.7.2010
In Memoriam
Letters
Kathie Kristiansen
Hello there,
Just to say that I’ve enjoyed getting familiar with
Kathie Kristiansen passed away on May 24th.
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The next magazine deadline is July 14
All contributions welcome – in English or Danish (with a
short summary in English).
The magazine can also be read (in full
colour) online at www.danishsocietynz.com.
Note: ads for events must be in a calendar
month before the event.
Pam Logan (Editor)
editor@danishsocietynz.com
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Wanted
Do you like mowing lawns?
The Danish House at Penrose needs a
new person who would like to keep the
Society’s grounds trim.
Please call Kim Basse on 473 6455.
Danish Society News Magazine ● July 2010