A room for yourself. That’s it. Tove could write poems there, finally be alone and not just, as her father suspects, “bite her nails and pick her nose”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/.”A room of one’s own” is what it’s called Virginia Woolf’s famous essay, which appeared in 1929, in which she declared “500 pounds” and her own room, i.e. independence, as a condition for writing women. The Danish author Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) certainly knew this text when she wrote the three brilliant books “Childhood”, “Youth” and “Dependence” about her life in 1967 and 1971. Texts that are also about Ditlevsen’s self-assertion as an author, about this tremendous urge for which there was little room for, especially for girls, in Copenhagen in the early 20th century.
Tove Ditlevsen’s “Copenhagen Trilogy” at the Munich Residenztheater – Culture
