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Poul Henningsen (9 September 1894 – 31 January 1967, Danish) was an author, critic and architect who was so well know as one of the leading figures of Danish cultural life between the World Wars that he is often referred to simply as “PH”.
Henningsen was the son of author Agnes Henningsen and satirist Carl Ewald. Between 1911 and 1917, despite being educated as an architect, he never graduated and rather tried himself as an inventor and painter.
Later, as an architect Henningsen was an eager supporter of ‘functionalism’. His most valuable design was the 1925 ‘PH-lamp’, a simple lamp which used the breaking of light, which created the foundation of his later works.
During the 1920s, Henningsen had his literary breakthrough when he edited the left wing periodical Kritisk Revy (1926-1928, "Critical Review") in which he and his colleagues scorned old-fashioned style and cultural conservatism, linking these themes to politics. At the same time he started as a revue writer praising natural behaviour, sexual broad-mindedness and simple living. He was the man who made the Danish revues a political weapon of the left wing without giving up its character of entertainment (the so-called PH-revues 1929-32).
In 1933 he edited his most famous work Hvad med Kulturen? ("What About Culture?") a criticism of Danish cultural life, its snobism and passion of the past despite all the efforts of the Modern Break-Through. He tried to make parallels between prudery, moralizing and fascist leanings and he also accused the Social Democrats of lacking a firm and consequent cultural line; this book together with his activities as a whole gave him a reputation as a semi-communist ”fellow traveller”. In this period he in fact stood near the communists without joining them. He took part in the anti-fascist propaganda, always trying to connect culture and politics.
Among his other initiatives of this period was Danmarksfilmen 1935, (English: The Film of Denmark) also known as ‘PH’s Danmarksfilm’. It is an unpretentious and untraditional film portraying the life in contemporary Denmark in a lively and slightly disrespectful way in which the visuals are supported by jazz rhythms. It was condemned and torn apart by most critics but later on it has become rehabilitated as one of the classic Danish documentary films.
During World War II and the German Occupation of Denmark he kept a lower profile and fled to Sweden in 1943 but tried to keep the spirit going by camouflaged resistance poetry. After the war he dissociated himself from the communists who criticized him for his humanitarian attitude to the settlement with the Nazis and for his growing scepticism of the Soviet Union – in in many ways he was isolated. However he kept writing and debating, and during the 1960s a new generation made him something of a guru. In his last years he became a member of the Danish Academy and supported the new movement of consumers.
In many ways Poul Henningsen is the man who completed the work of Georg Brandes. He is somewhat superficial and light but more modern and less elitist in his views. Being a tease and a provoker who often tried turning concepts upside down (like George Bernard Shaw) and whose conclusions might be both somewhat unjust and exaggerated, he was however a man of firm principles and ideals of a democratic, natural and tolerant society.
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