Lise Munk Thygesen: Tove Ditlevsen was my grandmother

Tove Ditlevsen never spared herself. All of Denmark could read about her suicide attempts, addiction, and chaotic family life - but the family behind her authorship kept silent, until now.

Lise Munk Thygesen is Tove's granddaughter, and in this lecture she tells her own story and that of the women in her family. When Lise's mother died, she left behind a folder titled "Secrets". It took Lise years to find the courage to open it, but when she finally did, she could begin to piece together what had gone unsaid.

Lise Munk Thygesen speaks about seven generations of women's lives marked by inheritance, betrayal, forgiveness, and love - and about the reckoning with silence and shame that has kept the family's women trapped.