Novels by Morten Brask
Three months after his French wife’s cremated body was found in a summer cabin, Daniel Fischer wakes and discovers that all sounds in Copenhagen have disappeared. Things are not where they were yesterday. The sun shines through windows it has never before shone through. On the streets there are no people, cars are abandoned on the roads, the town hall has collapsed. The strangest thing, however, is that a message…
Download gratis et eksemplar af bogen her. Jeg har gennem årene skrevet en del om den nazistiske filmpropaganda. Målgruppen har været forskellig. Nogen har været til grundskolen og gymnasiet, nogen til det mere voksne publikum. Denne bog er mit speciale fra Film- og medievidenskab på Københavns universitet. Den er derfor nok mest egnet for universitetsstuderende eller folk der bare ikke kan få nok af lange fodnoter og analyser. Historisk baggrund:…
An absurd comedy about Social Media. The little Savior (Den lille Frelser) is a satirical novel about Social media and celebrity culture. It’s written under the pseudonyme Martin Bartholdy. The book is illustrated by cartoonist Jens Monrad. Read first chapters here (in Danish). The Little Savior is an absurd comedy about a time when the likes of SoMe are crucial and where people who can do nothing can become world…
One summer night in central Copenhagen a young lawyer is attacked. A stranger pulls her into a backyard and rapes her brutally. She manages to get home to her boyfriend in a state of schock. They file the rape to the police and she is from this moment they start their journey through the system. In a split second everything in their lives is changed. The boyfriend know that he…
This is a non-fiction book about the anti-semitic film propaganda in the Third Reich. It is focused on how the German anti-semitism was conveyed in the nazi cinema and contains thorough analyzations of some of the most hateful film of all times. During his studies in History and Film Science at University of Copenhagen, Morten Brask focused on nazi cinema in general and the anti-semitic films in particular. In The…
For seventeen years Anja Fonseca kept a painful secret. Outwardly she was the always smiling weather host at DR’s channels. When the media wrote about her, they portrayed her as the beautiful and successful woman who were just as good on the red carpet as in the bicycle sadle on the roads. But what no one knew was that Anja Fonseca since his teens has suffered from the serious eating…
University of Copenhagen, eight years earlier He sees her for the first time at a lecture. She talks about a she has carried since early childhood, a pain which can only be healed the day she has a child. An island in the Mediterranean Sea, two years earlier From a porch he sees her standing in the shade of date palms in the hotel garden. She holds a naked boy…
Winner of Edoardo Kihlgren first prize for European literature in 2014. Winner of the international Bottari Lattes prize for literature in Italy. Nominated for the literary prize “PREMIO LETTERARIA” in the category best novel translated into Italian. Besides Denmark, the novel has been published in Germany, South Korea, Schwitzerland, France, Greece, Italy, Austria and under consideration to other countries. The perfect Life of William Sidis On a winter morning in…
Nominated for Prix du Roman Fnac and Prix Chapitre du roman Europeen. A novel about the young Jewish doctor, Daniel Faigel, his years in the concentration camp Theresienstadt outside Prague – and his haunted childhood in the house of a judge and his mad wife. Published in Denmark and France in various editions. The Sea in Theresienstadt Daniel Faigel remembers the light Danish summer days when he as a little…
Journey in the rainy Season A travelogue about Morten Brask and Siri Aronsen’s dramatic and beautiful seven-month long journal into the remote Indonesian islands far away from the downtrodden paths of mass tourism. The two authors travelled during the damaging rainy season, when the landscape explodes into green, but roads and bridges are washed away. They visit the king of the forgotten Banda Islands, get a little too close for comfort…
Blondanett – a prostitute´s diary is Morten Brask´s description of a Danish prostitute´s world. After listening to sound recordings made by Copenhagen prostitute “Blondanett”, he interviewed her and the book contains not only a description of the, at times, very tough life led by a prostitute, but also a detailed portrait of the woman Blondanett, her past, present life and thoughts about her future. The book made newspaper headlines at…
The Jew & the Aryan – in the Nazi film propaganda Morten Brask wrote The Jew & the Aryan in cooperation with Siri Aronsen. The book is an introduction to Nazi propaganda films. It closely examines the historical development leading up to films of hatred depicting Hitler as a Messiah and the Jews as rats to be exterminated. Critics described the book as ”extremely well-written”, “an amazing read”, ”solid and…
Snapstinget 2002 Snapstinget (The Schnaps Parliament) is Morten Brask´s vicious, ridiculing, humiliating satire about the honorable members of the Danish Parliament at Christiansborg and their immediate surroundings. Former Minister of Economic Affairs Marianne Jelved reviewed Schnaps Parliament with the following words: Satirist Morten Brask has followed us politicians closely in our daily lives at Christiansborg. It is both witty, right to the point and at times boundless, which here refers…
Snapstinget 2001 Snapstinget (The Schnaps Parliament) is Morten Brask´s vicious, ridiculing, humiliating satire about the honorable members of the Danish Parliament at Christiansborg and their immediate surroundings. Former Minister of Economic Affairs Marianne Jelved reviewed Schnaps Parliament with the following words: Satirist Morten Brask has followed us politicians closely in our daily lives at Christiansborg. It is both witty, right to the point and at times boundless, which here refers…
