The wondrous journey of little Nils Holgersson
with Annett Renneberg (reading) and Hideyo Harada (piano)
Selma Lagerlöf: Reading from "The wondrous journey of little Nils Holgersson with the wild geese"
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Arrangements of Swedish folk songs for piano
Ludvig Norman: Piano music
Elfrida Andrée: Piano music
In 1909, the Swede Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman in the world to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Three years earlier, she had written her book "The Wondrous Journey of Little Nils Holgersson with the Wild Geese" for reading lessons in elementary school. In it, a fourteen-year-old boy crosses the entire kingdom of Sweden on the back of Martin the goose: from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north.
The actress Annett Renneberg, audience favorite in TV series such as "Kommissar Stolberg" or "In aller Freundschaft", will read excerpts from this travelogue, accompanied by Hideyo Harada on the piano, who will add the musical to the geographical local history.
