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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

Denmark's first house of literature holds its readings under a former church roof. LiteraturHaus opened on 14 April 2005 in the deconsecrated Methodist church Bethania at Mollegade 7 on Norrebro - an 1892 building by architects Henrik Hagemann and Knud Arne Petersen - on the initiative of theatre publisher Paul Opstrup, who bought the ex-church with his own money and gathered a think tank of publishers, writers and critics around the idea. The model borrows deliberately from the German-speaking...