The Kjeld Abell Prize is a Danish cultural award which is handed every second or third year to a person, who has made a great effort for Danish theatre or film.Denstoedanske.dk
The prize is handed by the Danish Academy, who runs the Kjeld Abell Memorial Foundation, which was founded just after his death in 1961. The prize is currently 50,000 DDK.
Recipients Source: 1976: Jess Ørnsbo 1978: Inger Christensen 1980: Eugenio Barba 1982: Finn Methling 1983: Jørgen Leth 1985: Ulla Ryum 1987: Astrid Saalbach 1989: Kirsten Delholm 1991: Ernst Bruun Olsen 1993: Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel 1995: Jens Kistrup 1997: Morti Vizki 2000: Peter Asmussen 2003: Nullo Facchini 2005: Claus Beck-Nielsen 2007: Jokum Rohde 2009: Line Knutzon 2011: Nikoline Werdelin 2015: Andreas Garfield
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