Else Lidegaard

Lidegaard was born in Røsnæs, near Kalundborg, on 23 February 1933. She was employed by Danmarks Radio for many years, from 1969 as a temporary employee and in the period 1976–96 as a permanent employee. At DR she produced over 150 broadcasts, most of them about cultural encounters, e.g. the series Med Danmark i Zimbabwe (1986) and Så er de andre (1991), but also literary portraits, including Grundtvig (1972), William Heinesen (1980) and Simone de Beauvoir (1983).^[1]

In 1974 she received the Rocking Chair Prize, for the broadcast Barbara, poem and reality. In addition, Lidegaard wrote travel books during stays in Africa and Patagonia.^[2]

She was the initiator of the movement Grandparents For Asylum.^[3]

Lidegaard was married to Mads Lidegaard, but divorced in 2003.^[4] They had four children, Øjvind, Kresten, Bo, and Martin. While her husband was a seminary teacher in Greenland from 1953 to 1961, she worked as a teacher at the secondary school and for the Greenland Radio.^[5]

Lidegaard died on 4 August 2025, at the age of 92.^[6]