More than a year later, in the autumn of 2014, I heard from Danish colleagues that the series was being broadcast in Denmark (as a Swede living in the extreme south of Sweden we used to receive terrestrial Danish television – with digitization, this disappeared unless you buy a dedicated package from the right cable company – mine is not). To say the least, great expectations started to take shape in me. He also informed me that the Danish press right at that moment featured many articles depicting the situation, and how it described actors and extras fainting from sunstroke, filming war scenes in thick, woollen uniforms, duplicating the ones worn by Danish and Prussian soldiers in the 1860s (more of this later).ġ.2 The Scope and Disposition of the StudyĪs a history buff and avid fan of Danish cinema and television, I was intrigued, vividly remembering a tourist visit to Dybbøl in southern Jutland more than 40 years ago. He told me that the Danes were making a TV-series about the war, re-staging the famous Battle of Dybbøl, and that the shooting was going on outside Prague just as we were talking. Along with my Danish colleague, Casper Tybjerg of the University of Copenhagen, I sought refuge from the exasperating sunlight in the coolness of a Czech alehouse. At the time of my visit to Prague, the city was hit by an oppressive heat wave, with temperatures rising above the 40 degree centigrade mark. The war, of course, proved a devastating loss for Denmark. Kosmorama #261 (It was during a conference visit to Prague in the latter part of June 2013 that I first heard of the making of a TV-series about the dramatic events during the Second Schleswig War (1864) between Denmark and the German Confederation, represented by its two most powerful members Prussia and Austria. Hedling, Erik (2015): The Battle of Dybbøl Revisited: The Danish Press Reception of the TV-series 1864.
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