Die Kopenhagen-Trilogie

DRAMA

Little House

based on the novels *Childhood*, *Youth*, and *Dependence* by Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen grows up in a working-class neighborhood of Copenhagen in the 1920s. She feels like an outsider in her own life because she wants to write. “A girl can’t become a poet,” her father tells her. At age 14, she ventures to a newspaper with her poetry album full of poems—and is rejected. Although she has to drop out of school to work as a domestic servant and later as an office assistant, she pursues her dream unwaveringly, publishing poems, short stories, and later novels. Like Annie Ernaux, Ditlevsen dissects her own self in her autofictional novels and recounts with unsparing candor a childhood and youth marked by loneliness and fear, an adult life full of contradictions, and the struggle to find an identity as an artist, woman, and mother against the backdrop of social and political reality.