Rune T. Kidde

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Rune Torstein Kidde (27 September 1957 – 21 October 2013) was a Danish writer, storyteller, musician and artist.

Rune T. Kidde was a prominent member of 1970s Danish cartoon underground. He published "Fields'isten" and fanzines such as "Blomstrende Spaghetti" (Flowering Spaghetti), "Knulp" and "Kong Knud" (King Canute). In 1977 he co-founded the publishing company Baldur og Brage who published the first Danish underground periodical with comics "På Stribe". In 1979 he co-founded the

Besides his works of fiction Rune T. Kidde has written three biographies. Starting with Leveomkostningerne er steget med en femmer per halvflaske – en bog om W. C. Fields (The cost of living has risen by a fiver per half bottle – a book about W. C. Fields) (1986) about the American comedian W. C. Fields and Thormod Kidde, kvindfolk (Thormod Kidde, womenfolk)(2002) about his father illustrator Thormod Kidde. Moreover, in 2007 he published his autobiography Scribbles, scrabble and creative antics. His interest in personal history was also reflected in a comprehensive family history research, and he stands behind the website haraldkidde.dk about the Danish author Harald Kidde, which also contains information about his brother the conservative politician Aage Kidde.

His mother Ragnhild Kidde was a potter. She was mentally ill, at times borderline psychotic, and unlike his father very outgoing. Rune T. Kidde has told how as a child he felt like an intermediary, a messenger in the eternal commute between the two parents, who for long periods did not talk to each other, and for equally long periods left their son to himself.

The insecure upbringing was, Rune T. Kidde himself thought, a strong contributing factor to the fact that at the age of 15 he suffered from severe depression, which plagued him until he turned 30.

But there was another side of the coin, a black sense of humour, which - as he eventually gained control of his creative urge - enabled him to live with his depressions. And created fertile ground for the title he often gave himself:

Denmark's most optimistic pessimist.

Musician

Rune T. Kidde was also an accomplished musician and singer and was active in

Kidde made his debut as a playwright in 1983 with the play "En måge over Ejer Bavnehøj" (A seagull over Ejer Bavnehøj) at Det Danske Teater and as an actor in 2005 in Jon Bang Carlsen's English language movie Blinded Angels which takes place in Cape Town in South Africa.

Bibliography

Cartoons and comics

• Blomstrende Spaghetti, 1977–1986 ^[2]
• Rune T. Kidde, 1980
• Man siger så meget, 1980
• Gal og normal, 1982
• Må jeg høfligst anmode dem om at tage denne sag alvorligt, 1984
• Litterærlige klassikere, 1988
• Menigmands guide til det indre marked, 1992

Poetry

• Gjort bedre før, 1983
• Fuglefri, 1998
• Hvor er fyrvogteren?, 2002
• Året rundt på gulvet – hyldest til ottetallet, 2005

Novels

• Rejsen til Alvilva, 1993
• Midt i himlen, midt i havet, 1997
• Da Henry Høj gik over i historien, 2000
• Hr. og fru Dicht i Island, 2008
• Julius afsind, 2009
• Sandhedens djævlekløer, 2011

Biographies

• Leveomkostningerne er steget med en femmer per halvflaske – en bog om W. C. Fields, 1986
• Øllet blev hans skæbne, 1999
• Thormod Kidde – Kvindfolk, 2002
• Kruseduller, kragetæer og kreative krumspring (autobiography), 2007

References

External links

• Anders T. Jensen, Karsten J Jørgensen (ed.), Adventurous Rune T. Kidde, Ultima, 1994
• Rune T. Kidde: Scribbles, scrabble and creative antics, Modtryk, 2007
• Rune T. Kiddes website [1]
• Tegneseriemuseet (Danish Cartoon Museum)
• Website about author Harald Kidde and the Kidde family [2]
• Ping Award
• DR Novel Prize 2009 – nomination [3]
• Biography at Forfatterweb