Svend-Erik
Engh -
Storyteller
Storycoach
Photo by Vincent Jozajtis
News - Nyheder
I anledning af Bornholm's besættelse skabte jeg i 2015 en historie om en kvinde, der lyttede til en russisk soldat's sang. Historien er aktuel igen i denne tid omkring den 5. april, årsdagen for russernes evakuering af Bornholm.
Online Storytelling Workshops
Beginners workshop
Saturday 24th April 10am to 4pm
A Zoom workshop for anyone interested in learning more about how to tell a story.
Four Zoom masterclasses for storytellers who have created their own stories for oral telling and want to get to the heart of their story.
Wednesday 21th, 28th April and 5th and 12th may 10am - 4pm
Maximum of Four Participants!!!!!!!
Story Seedlings is a weekly 2 hour workshop, which takes place online via Zoom.
It is a space for knowledge sharing and idea generation at the early, vulnerable stages of creating and developing stories to tell.
Svend is a wonderful teacher! He is passionate about the world of story and manages to detect the strength and weaknesses within the tale. His workshops are joyful with valuable as well as kind feedback. Even though the workshops are online now, he is able to connect with each and everyone – creating a vibrant and engaged environment.
I highly recommend working with Svend and discover new and surprising ways in your telling.
Franziska Droll, tourguide and storyteller
Online Storytelling Workshop
Story Seedlings at
29 April 2021 4pm to 5.30pm
A creative workshop for anyone who would like to explore and learn how to create stories from your own experiences or ideas.
Story Seedlings will be a 1.5 hour workshop, taking place on zoom. It is a space for knowledge sharing and idea generation at the early, vulnerable stages of creating and developing stories to tell.
Here you will have the chance to share an idea for a story and receive constructive feedback and guidance on how to develop and grow your ideas. Taking you through a process in small groups you will move from an idea to a story by the end of the workshop.
Bring an open heart, an open mind, a personal experience or an idea for a story that you would like to share.
Storytelling Shows
Wolves Within
Wolves Within – with wonderful Scottish Musician Neil Sutcliffe we are exploring Wolves and what impact they have and have had on humans in stories, music and songs.
The show features myths/fairy tales and folk music from Scotland, Scandinavia, Russia, Transylvania and England.
Come and delve deep into the psyche of Wolves, and discover what these proud animals have meant for people around the world.
Orphan James and the Prince of Denmark
As The King’s Men perform Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the court of James VI/I and Queen Anne of Denmark, bittersweet memories are unearthed for the royal couple. They recall a perilous voyage across the waters between Scotland and Denmark. The play stirs up a well of grief, opening the deepest of heart wounds in the king himself.
Created and performed together with English storyteller Alice Fernbank the performance explores parallels between the story of Hamlet and the life of James VI/I.
Walk the Oars is a treasure, an ancient oasis of delight in the sea of the modern world. The whole thing is engaging and exciting, and rekindles a semi-lost fire of storytelling
Imogen Rowe, edinburghguide.com
Danish Storyteller Svend-Erik Engh and Scottish Musician Neil Sutcliffe tell a story inspired by the Viking’s arrival in Scotland, with traditional Nordic tales and Gaelic and Scots songs woven into the narrative.
You are invited onboard a Viking Longship sailing from Jutland in Denmark to Shetland in Scotland. A young man sets off to finish his fathers work: to build a causeway out to Law Ting Holm and share his culture with the Shetlanders.
I knew it was going to be good, but I didn’t know it was going to be this good
– Lorna Shields
DuEtS are meetings between artists. The guest brings a prepared gift to the DuEt and then host and guest exchange stories, songs, music, poems whatever is connected to what was just done.
Stories of the Nordic Gods
Since I moved to Scotland I have told these stories from the Nordic Myths
The Creation (together with Alice Fernbank)
Kvasir
Tyr and Fenris (together with Neil Sutcliffe)
Thor and Jörmundgandr (a children version of a fishing trip)
Balder's Dream (I told the story of Balder's dream first time in 1984 together with Anders Eliasson - here in Scotland together with Neil Sutcliffe in Walk the Oars)
Ragnarok
Frihed skal være vor løsen i Nord
Frihed for Loke saavel som for Thor,
Freedom shall be our guide in the North!
Freedom for Loki as well as for Thor.
Niels Frederik Severin Grundtvig in foreword to Nordic Mythology 1832 which is the fundament of the Danish Folkhøjskole.
Children's Book
Just wanted to say thank you about the Princess Grumpy book, I bought it earlier this year for my daughter who likes it too, but at the moment, for the last few weeks at least, is our 2-year-old's favourite, he asks to read it at least once or twice a day and joins in on 'Boos and hisss' and every 'ouch', and has us singing Nelly the elephant every time too.
Ossi Jalonen
WHAT CUSTOMERS SAY
Painting
with words
The way Engh paints his stories is magical, building a landscape of a simpler time.
Imogen Rowe,
edinburghguide.com
Emphatic
Trainer
Svend-Erik is not only an authentic and impressive storyteller but also a great, emphatic trainer with the right questions in the right moment.
Zsuzsanna Takács
CEO at KRIO Institute Cell and Tissue Bank
Learning
environment
Svend-Erik creates a uniquely inspiring and creative learning environment based on trust and expert narrator skills.
Søren Buhl Hornskov
Copenhagen Business School
