Legacy: The Artists Behind The Legends

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer active during the 19th century and best known for his incredible and vast number of fairy tales. In total, Andersen wrote close to 3381 works, and over the years his fairy tales have been translated into roughly 125 different languages. And while some of us may remember the Disney versions of these tales, such as “The Little Mermaid”, “The Snow Queen”, and “The Ugly Duckling”, in reality, these stories were written with seriously dark undertones we will be examining a bit later in the podcast. Andersen was revered in his home country of Denmark, becoming a celebrity author in the height of his career on an international level, and the Danish government even paid him an annual stipend for being a “national treasure.” Furthermore, it is essentially cautioned by many historians and biographers not to cover a man like Hans Christian Andersen for this type of thing, because they claim his life was relatively uneventful and “vanilla”; however, if you know anything about m