Christmas has gradually become an equally integral part of the Danish december as garlands, candle stick and rice pudding.
It is, however, not all of which are just big fans of the German-imported tradition. Tv-host, Mattias Hundebøll can, for example, well get the arms down.
– I do not think it is worthy of neither Copenhagen, Odense, Aalborg or what are some other cities, they probably also shows up in, he says.
– It seems out of place in the beautiful, beautiful city, king Christian IV planned with the Kongens Nytorv square and the round Tower and all that. I don’t think he had thought that there should be some such barrakker up, so it looks like we are in Salzburg. I don’t think it was part of the plan.
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Specifically it goes to the 37-year-old host that the markets is a foreign tradition, which does not have much of the Danish christmas to make.
– It is a new addition to the city, there has come the last five-eight years. It is not an old Danish tradition, and I’m damn right conservative with my christmas traditions. I think Copenhagen is the most beautiful city in the world, especially when it is dressed in christmas lights. We manage in fact to dress up the town for christmas in a way that is aesthetically pleasing. Kind of like when you take in the Tivoli gardens: It’s a fucking eventyrlandskab, we come in, says Mattias Hundebøll.
– But when you come out of the metro at Kongens Nytorv, then the vader one up and get a sense that you are standing in a city in Austria. There is the cannon brown huts up where they are selling icelandic sweaters and other things, which is Danish christmas. They sell gluhwein!
in Addition to the job as a tv host is Mattias Hundebøll musician. He earlier played with the band Rock Hard Power Spray, which he also was the co-founder of. Photo: Anthon Unger/POLFOTO
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Mattias Hundebøll wonders in addition how the whole concept even come to Denmark. He do not believe it is something the locals have put the time in.
– You have a little sense of it here is not something that is set up, because of the municipality thought, ‘let’s do something bold Danish christmas spirit’. This is how one or another central european company that has come and has his feet a lot of stalls up, he says.
I could understand if it was left to the local clubs and associations beat some stalls up, where the children could sell their things, so you kind of supported the any Danish foreningskultur or some upcoming Danish jewellery designers, but it’s just such a mishmash. Visually, it is a bit of a disgrace.
– We have d’Angleterre, who stands and looks like an ice castle from a hans christian Andersen fairy tale, but then just down the front is a tourist trap of opbankede stalls. To get a sense of that, in fact, is made to pull some money out of some tourists, instead of to beautify the local christmas spirit. It does not fit into the cityscape.
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