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Madame Nielsen (born Claus Beck-Nielsen[A]) is a Danish writer, singer, actor, and performance artist.
Early life and education[edit]
Nielsen was born in 1963 in Denmark.[2]
Career[edit]
In the 1990s, Nielsen joined the New York Wooster Group, an experimental theater.[2]
Between late 2000 and early 2001, Nielsen adopted the identity of an amnesiac named Claus Nielsen.[3] Her wife divorced her shortly afterwards, and Nielsen declared the identity of Claus Beck-Nielsen dead.[3] She assumed various names and roles, including the position of managing the theater Das Beckwerk and Beck-Nielsen's work.[4]
As Beckwerk's manager, she continued participating in the theater's creative production.[3] In 2004, Nielsen and her colleague at Das Beckwerk, Rasmussen,[B] visited Iraq during its invasion by the United States and brought Democracy with them: A metal box with the word democracy written on it.[5] After their visit to Iraq – which the art professor Laura Luise Schultz described as a success in which "people welcomed them with open arms" – Rasmussen and Nielsen also visited the United States (described by Schultz as a failure), Iran, Afghanistan, and Egypt.[6]
Selected works[edit]
Notes and references[edit]
Notes[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ Schultz 2022, pp. 994, 996.
- ^ a b Mangold 2018.
- ^ a b c Schultz 2022, p. 996.
- ^ Schultz 2022, p. 995.
- ^ Schultz 2022, pp. 996–997.
- ^ Schultz 2022, p. 997.
Works cited[edit]
- Mangold, Ijoma (20 March 2018). "Die neue Romantik" [The New Romance]. Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- Schultz, Laura Luise (2022). "Precarious Life – Nielsen's Search for a Life Beyond Identity". In Hjartarson, Benedikt; Skovbjerg Paldam, Camilla; Schultz, Laura Luise; Ørum, Tania (eds.). A Cultural History of Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975. Brill. ISBN 9789004515956.