Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen

Archives, collections and museums

• The Hans Christian Andersen Museum or H.C. Andersens Hus, is a set of museums/buildings dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen in Odense, Denmark, some of which, at various times in history, have functioned as the main Odense-based museum for the author.
• The Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Solvang, California, a city founded by Danes, is devoted to presenting the author's life and works. Displays include models of Andersen's childhood home and of "The Princess and the Pea". The museum also contains hundreds of volumes of Andersen's works, including many illustrated first editions and correspondence with Danish composer Asger Hamerik.[53]
• The Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division was bequeathed an extensive collection of Andersen materials by the Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt.[54][55]

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• La petite marchande d'allumettes (1928; in English: The Little Match Girl), film by Jean Renoir, based on "The Little Match Girl".
• The Ugly Duckling (1931) and its 1939 remake of the same name, two animated Silly Symphonies cartoon shorts produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on The Ugly Duckling.
• Andersen was played by Joachim Gottschalk in the German film The Swedish Nightingale (1941), which portrays his relationship with the singer Jenny Lind.
• The Red Shoes (1948), British drama film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on "The Red Shoes".
• Hans Christian Andersen (1952), an American musical film starring Danny Kaye that, though inspired by Andersen's life and literary legacy, was not meant to be historically nor biographically accurate; it begins by saying, "This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about this great spinner of fairy tales."
• The Snow Queen (1957), a Soviet animated film based on The Snow Queen, by Lev Atmanov of Soyuzmultfilm, a faithful depiction of the fairy tale that garnered critical acclaim.[56][57]
• The Emperor's New Clothes (Carevo novo ruho), a 1961 Croatian film, directed by Ante Babaja.
• The Wild Swans (1962), Soviet animated adaptation of The Wild Swans, by Soyuzmultfilm.
• The Rankin/Bass Productions-produced fantasy film, The Daydreamer (1966), depicts the young Hans Christian Andersen conceiving the stories he would later write.
• The Little Mermaid (1968) 30-minute faithful Soviet animated adaptation of The Little Mermaid by Soyuzmultfilm.
• The World of Hans Christian Andersen (1968), a Japanese anime fantasy film from Toei Doga, based on the works of Hans Christian Andersen.
• Andersen Monogatari (1971), a Japanese animated anthology series produced by Mushi Production.
• The Pine Tree (c. 1974), 23 minute film in colour, commentary by Liz Lochhead.[58]
• Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (1975) Japanese anime film from Toei, faithfully based on The Little Mermaid.
• The Little Mermaid (1976) Czech fantasy film based on The Little Mermaid.
• The Wild Swans (1977), Japanese animated adaptation of The Wild Swans by Toei.
• Thumbelina (1978), Japanese anime film from Toei based on Thumbelina.
• The Little Mermaid (1989), an animated film based on The Little Mermaid, created and produced at Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, California.
• Thumbelina (1994), an animated film based on "Thumbelina", created and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios, Dublin, Ireland
• One segment in Fantasia 2000 is based on "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", alongside Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, Movement 1: "Allegro".
• Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale (2003), a British made-for-television film directed by Philip Saville, a fictionalized account of Andersen's early successes, with his fairy stories intertwined with events in his own life.[59][60]
• The Fairytaler (2003), Danish-British animated series based on several Andersen fairy tales.
• The Little Matchgirl (2006), an animated short film by the Walt Disney Animation Studios directed by Roger Allers and produced by Don Hahn.
• The Snow Queen (2012), a Russian 3D animated film based on The Snow Queen, the first film of The Snow Queen series produced by Wizart Animation.[61]
• Frozen (2013), a 3D computer-animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios that is loosely inspired by The Snow Queen.
• Ginger's Tale (2020), a Russian 2D animated film loosely based on The Tinderbox, produced at Vverh Animation Studio in Moscow.[62]
• The Little Mermaid (2023), a live-action film based on The Little Mermaid created and produced by Walt Disney Pictures .

Literature

Andersen's stories laid the groundwork for other children's classics, such as The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A. A. Milne. The trope of inanimate objects, such as toys, coming to life (as in "Little Ida's Flowers") would later also be used by Lewis Carroll and Beatrix Potter.[63][64]

Music

• Hans Christian Andersen (album), a 1994 album by Franciscus Henri.
• The Song is a Fairytale (Sangen er et Eventyr), a song cycle based on fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, composed by Frederik Magle.
• "Atonal Fairy Tale",[65] track with music composed by Gregory Reid Davis Jr. and Smart Dad Living reading the fairy tale "The Elfin Mound" by Hans Christian Andersen.

Stage productions

For opera and ballet see List of The Little Mermaid Adaptations

• Little Hans Andersen (1903), a children's pantomime at the Adelphi Theatre.
• The Nightingale (1914), an opera by Igor Stravinsky.[66]
• Sam the Lovesick Snowman at the Center for Puppetry Arts, a contemporary puppet show by Jon Ludwig inspired by "The Snow Man".[67]
• Striking Twelve, a modern musical take on "The Little Match Girl", created and performed by GrooveLily.[68]
• Once Upon a Mattress, a musical comedy based on Andersen's work "The Princess and the Pea".[69]

Awards

• Hans Christian Andersen Awards, prizes awarded annually by the International Board on Books for Young People to an author and illustrator whose complete works have made lasting contributions to children's literature.[70]
• Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, a Danish literary award established in 2010.
• Andersen's fable "The Emperor's New Clothes" was inducted in 2000 into the Prometheus Hall of Fame for Best Classic Fiction.[71]

Events and holidays

• Andersen's birthday, 2 April, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.[72]
• The year 2005, designated "Andersen Year" in Denmark,[73] was the bicentenary of Andersen's birth, and his life and work were celebrated around the world.
• In Denmark, a well-attended show was staged in Copenhagen's Parken Stadium during "Andersen Year" to celebrate the writer and his stories.[73]
• The annual H.C. Andersen Marathon, established in 2000, is held in Odense, Denmark.

Monuments and sculptures

• Seated bronze (1880) by sculptor August Saabye (1823–1916) can be seen in the Rosenborg Castle Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark.[4]

• Seated bronze (1896) with a swan beside, a statue by the Danish sculptor Johannes Gelert (1852–1923), at Lincoln Park, Stockton Drive near Webster Avenue, Chicago, United States.[74]

• Seated bronze (1956), a statue by sculptor Georg J. Lober (1891–1961) and designer Otto Frederick Langman, at Central Park Lake in New York City, opposite East 74th Street (GPS 40°46′28″N 73°58′04″W / 40.7744306°N 73.9677972°W / 40.7744306; -73.9677972). The seated bronze of Andersen upon a granite bench was erected on the author's 150th birthday.[75] It includes a bronze duck representing the book The Ugly Duckling.[75][76]

• Seated bronze (1965) was erected in Copenhagen City Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen), facing H. C. Andersens Boulevard, Copenhagen, Denmark, made by Henry Luckow-Nielsen.[77]

• Bronze bust (2004), a replica of the 1865 bust by Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1798–1868), at Observatory Hill, Millers Point, Sydney, Australia,[78] was officially unveiled by HRH Crown Prince Frederik and HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark in March 2005, on Andersen's bicentenary.[79] It was to replace the 1955 bust erected in Phillip Park, Sydney; although found missing by 1984.[79]

• Seated bronze (2005), in the Plaza de la Marina in Málaga, Spain, by José María Córdoba.

• Standing bronze (2005) was erected in Hviezdoslavovo námestie, Bratislava, Slovakia, and was designed by Tibor Bártfay to mark the bicentennial.[80]

• Statue in Central Park, New York commemorating Andersen and The Ugly Duckling
• Statue in Odense being led out to the harbour during a public exhibition
• Statue in Solvang, California, a city built by Danish immigrants.
• Statue in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Portrait bust in Sydney unveiled by the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark in 2005

Places named after Andersen

• H. C. Andersens Boulevard, a major road in Copenhagen formerly known as Vestre Boulevard (Western Boulevard), received its current name in 1955 to mark the 150-year anniversary of the writer's birth.[81]
• Hans Christian Andersen Airport, a small airport servicing the Danish city of Odense.
• Instituto Hans Christian Andersen, a Chilean high school located in San Fernando, Colchagua Province, Chile.
• Hans Christian Andersen Park, Solvang, California.
• CEIP Hans Christian Andersen, a primary Education School in Malaga, Spain.[82]

Theme parks

• In Japan, the city of Funabashi has a children's theme park named after Andersen.[83] Funabashi is a sister city to Odense, the city of Andersen's birth.
• In China, a US$32 million theme park based on Andersen's tales and life opened in Shanghai's Yangpu district in 2017.[84][85] Construction on the project began in 2005.[86]

Other honours

• The flatworm Collastoma anderseni (family: Umagillidae), an endosymbiont from the intestine of the sipunculan Themiste lageniformis (lit. 'Formed like a Lagenum'), was named after Andersen.