Tandlæge Marianne Hoffmeyer

Here is a small selection of the historical pictures and stories about Vimmelskaftet 47 and the surrounding buildings on Strøget. Click on the various links to read more. It is exciting if you are interested in Copenhagen’s history.

Indenforvoldene.dk/vimmelskaftet click here

Indenforvoldene.dk/vimmelskaftet 47/badstuestræde 2 (our building) click here (Source: www.indenforvoldene.dk/vimmelskaftet-47-badstuestraede-2)

ca.1840 – public domain. Vimmelskaftet can be seen in the direction of Skoubogade, Nygade, Nytorv and Gammel Torv. Vimmelskaftet no. 47 and the corner to Badstuestræde (on the left). H. G. F. Holm is also remembered as Fattig-Holm, who immortalized many topographical representations of the Copenhagen of his time (Source: www.indenforvoldene.dk)

Residents

From the house’s construction in 1801 until 1853, the merchant and manufacturer Friedrich Tutein (1757-1853) lived in the corner house. He was the son of the grocer and shipowner Peter Tutein (1726-1799) and continued his business and was also Prussian consul general until 1848, when the Three Years’ War began. For a number of years, Friedrich Tutein contested the chairmanship of the Grosserer-Societetet and was appointed a board member. (Source: www.indenforvoldene.dk)

Companies

The legendary Café Bernina was located on the mezzanine roof of the corner house. Bernina’s heyday was at the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century and hosted cultural figures such as August Strindberg, Ove Rode, Knut Hamsun, Sophus Schandorph, L. A. Ring and Holger Drachmann. The cafe was originally founded by wine merchant D. B. Schucani, who in 1885 sold the place to confectioner Poul Tønjachsen, which the regulars quickly renamed Cognacsen.
In Badstudestræde 7 was the editorial office of Dagbladet Copenhagen, whose employees often frequented Bernina, and to such an extent that there is no exchange of words about this: “I have a meeting with Ewald in Copenhagen. – Then greet the host from me“.

(Source: www.indenforvoldene.dk)
Café Bernina (Wikipedia) Read here

Ole Olsen’s first cinema in 1905 was on the ground floor, but it was with the founding of Nordisk Films Kompagni that he really established his name (Source: www.indenforvoldene.dk).

On 23 April 1905, Ole Olsen opened the Biografteatret – one of the first cinemas in Denmark – at the address Vimmelskaftet 47 in Copenhagen. At the beginning of 1906, Ole Olsen himself begins to produce motion pictures under the name Ole Olsens Filmindustri or Ole Olsens Filmfabrik. The first film is called “Duer og Maager” – a small reportage of approx. 2 minutes long, but dramatic films were also made from the very beginning, which until 1911 had a running length of approx. 20 minutes. The draftsman Robert Storm Petersen takes part in some of the earliest ‘feature films’, which are predominantly staged by the former sergeant Viggo Larsen, who can often be found on the cast lists himself. November 6 is the official date for the founding of Nordisk Films Kompagni, which by the end of the year will have offices in Vimmelskaftet, recording facilities on an allotment plot in Valby, a copying factory in Frihavnen, a branch in Germany and a permanent agent in Sweden. The polar bear on the globe becomes the company’s trademark, which, during the following years, goes on a triumphal march all over the world

Branches are established in Vienna and London. “The Lion Hunt” is recorded and becomes a huge success with 259 copies sold. The film is going to cost Ole Olsen his grant for the Biografteatret, as he defies a ban issued by Minister of Justice Alberti to continue filming following a report about animal cruelty. Therefore, the film did not premiere in Denmark until 1908 (source: Nordisk Film).

Gøgler became Denmark’s first film matador (Source: Berlingske12/4 2006).

Ole Olsen (Gyldendal The Great Dane) Read here.
From the anniversary book ‘NORDISK FILM – part of Denmark for 100 years’ (Source: www.pov.international/kongens-dod-filmdirektorens-brod)
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Kristeligt Dagblad moves to Strøget. From Grundtvig to Kristeligt Dagblad. Journalist and architecture writer Peter Olesen tells the story of the building where Kristeligt Dagblad is now moving into (Source: Kristeligt Dagblad 11/3 2011)