Ann Andreasen

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Ann Andreasen (born January 17, 1960 ) is a Faroese social worker and film producer .

Life

Ann Andreasen comes from Klaksvík . At the age of 12 she moved to Albertslund , later she lived in Israel , where she worked with children whose families were interned in concentration camps, and on the Sinai Peninsula . She then trained as a social worker in Copenhagen .

In 1985 she began to work in the children's home in Uummannaq, Greenland , the northernmost children's home in the world, which is home to around 35 children who have been victims of sexual violence or whose parents are addicted to alcohol or drugs or who have committed suicide . After five years she became its director. She and her concept of bringing children closer to their own traditional culture, sending them on a seal hunt or learning an instrument and thus performing worldwide, received international reports and she received numerous awards. The activities are carried out by the Uummannaq Polar Institute , which she directs . She founded this in 2007 together with Rebekka Jørgensen and Jean-Michel Huctin. It was inaugurated by Prince Albert II of Monaco , the French polar explorer Jean Malaurie and the Russian polar explorer and politician Artur Tschilingarow . The children's home has already been visited by Ban Ki-moon , Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Queen Margrethe II , among others .

In 2009 she was awarded the Gerdapris . On July 20, 2013 she received the Nersornaat in silver. In the same year she was awarded Ebbe Muncks Hæderspris . In 2015 she received the Gerdens Fonden honorary award together with Banksy and Ai Weiwei . In 2019 she was named Årets ildsjæl (Fire Soul / Enthusiast of the Year) by DR P2 for the use of music in her children's home . In 2010 she was the producer of the award-winning feature film Inuk , which is about the children's home, in which she also made a cameo appearance . In 2008 she also produced the short film Silent Snow .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ildsjælen Ann: Heldigvis he the masser af ting jeg ikke kan in the Sermitsiaq
  2. ↑ UNESCO (ed.): Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development . Paris 2009, ISBN 978-92-3104139-6 , pp. 329 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Ann Andreasen heiðrað við DR-virðisløn at dagur.fo
  4. ↑ a b c d e Hun opgiver aldrig børnene at bhjumq.com (.pdf)
  5. ↑ The woman who saves children in Zeitenspiegel
  6. ↑ The love of the untamed in the world of women
  7. ↑ Meeqqat Angerlarsimaffiat Uummannaq - Børnehjemmet - The Children's Home at bhjumq.com
  8. ↑ Uummannaq Polar Institute at upi.gl
  9. ↑ Tildelingen af Nersornaat i sølv til Ann Andreassen og Tobias Grønvold i Uummannaq on the side of the Parliament of Greenland
  10. ↑ Banksy blandt modtagerne af Gernes Fondens hæderslegater at kopenhagen.dk
  11. ↑ Ann Andreasen: Prisen er til Børnehjemmet in Sermitsiaq
  12. ↑ Ann hjælper traumatiserede børnehjemsbørn: 'Musikken er med til at redde deres liv' at dr.dk
personal data
SURNAME Andreasen, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese social worker and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1960