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16 January 2026 07:32![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scifirenegadeThe first newsletter I recieve from the Danish Film Institute is about Olaf Fønss and about how self-absorbed he was. Great.
Except it's more than that. It's about fan culture.
Here's the article if you want to take a look-see.
There's a map of fan letters to Danish stars (as in, from where the letters were sent) and unknown person from Porto (Portugal) who wrote to Asta Nielsen, you have impeccable taste. Someone from Coimbra wrote to Clara Wieth, I don't who she is though. Of course both were in French. I remember reading in a Portuguese fanmag months ago in the "Questions and Answers" section that, if you, say, wanted to write to Conrad Veidt, either do so in German or French (even when he was in America).
Speaking of language, Esperanto makes an appearance. Cool. I wonder if anyone even speaks that.
This one excerpt from a young womam was interesting:
The admiration, sometimes getting punctuated with reality, the image of the star fades away a bit to show that, in the end, they're human beings with flaws and private lives... They're young, she's still fans, but it's impressive that they can get to that conclusion (kinda and sometimes) when grown-ass adults don't.
EDIT: Silent Film festival in Copenhagen! Lots of good stuff!
Managed to track down another book from the Veidt shelves (speaking of that nice pic of him posing by his bookshelf as if he's deciding on what he should read).
It's Gábor Vaszary's Monpti. Which is the age-old tale of boy meets girl, girl says she's rich while she's actually poor, boy dumps girl, girl gets hit by a car and dies, boy is sad.
This man has this and Silone's Bread and Wine on his shelves. The duality.
And speaking of Connie, you can now watch Die Große Sehnsucht (1930) on the Digitaler Lesesaal. Thank you, Bundesarchiv! Since Herr Veidt plays himself in this, it's a great showing of his persona at the time (read that I wrote persona and not person).
The ever-elusive Uncle Walt short by Robert Swarthe has been found. It's not good, as many elusive and mystical pieces of ~ lost media ~ are.
Except it's more than that. It's about fan culture.
Here's the article if you want to take a look-see.
There's a map of fan letters to Danish stars (as in, from where the letters were sent) and unknown person from Porto (Portugal) who wrote to Asta Nielsen, you have impeccable taste. Someone from Coimbra wrote to Clara Wieth, I don't who she is though. Of course both were in French. I remember reading in a Portuguese fanmag months ago in the "Questions and Answers" section that, if you, say, wanted to write to Conrad Veidt, either do so in German or French (even when he was in America).
Speaking of language, Esperanto makes an appearance. Cool. I wonder if anyone even speaks that.
This one excerpt from a young womam was interesting:
Now and then, one of us is cruel enough to tear the dreams of the others to shreds with their bare fists: »He's probably 55 years old and has a wife and fourteen children. He walks around in a dirty dressing gown and slippers with worn-down heels before he puts on the ›handsome man‹.« – But she doesn't believe it herself and almost begs for the vile suspicion to be taken back, almost in tears. And we love you all again with the same fervor as before.
The admiration, sometimes getting punctuated with reality, the image of the star fades away a bit to show that, in the end, they're human beings with flaws and private lives... They're young, she's still fans, but it's impressive that they can get to that conclusion (kinda and sometimes) when grown-ass adults don't.
EDIT: Silent Film festival in Copenhagen! Lots of good stuff!
Managed to track down another book from the Veidt shelves (speaking of that nice pic of him posing by his bookshelf as if he's deciding on what he should read).
It's Gábor Vaszary's Monpti. Which is the age-old tale of boy meets girl, girl says she's rich while she's actually poor, boy dumps girl, girl gets hit by a car and dies, boy is sad.
This man has this and Silone's Bread and Wine on his shelves. The duality.
And speaking of Connie, you can now watch Die Große Sehnsucht (1930) on the Digitaler Lesesaal. Thank you, Bundesarchiv! Since Herr Veidt plays himself in this, it's a great showing of his persona at the time (read that I wrote persona and not person).
The ever-elusive Uncle Walt short by Robert Swarthe has been found. It's not good, as many elusive and mystical pieces of ~ lost media ~ are.
