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Kaj Harald Leininger Munk (commonly called Kaj Munk) (13 January 1898 – 4 January 1944) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II.
Kaj Munk was a Danish playwright, priest, and patriot who was a rare exponent of religious drama with a strong sense of the theatre. He revived the “heroic” Shakespearean and Schillerian drama with writing whose passionate quality is not often found among Danish writers.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn about the life and death of Kaj Munk, a Lutheran pastor who wrote anti-Nazi plays and was killed by the Gestapo in 1944. Explore his works, translations and legacy in the British Library collections.
Kaj Harald Leininger Munk ( 1898 - 1944) var en dansk præst, skuespilforfatter og modstandsmand. Han var præst i Vedersø i Vestjylland i årene 1924 - 1944.
In 1924, Kaj Munk became pastor in the Danish Lutheran Church in the small parish of Vedersø in the western part of Jutland and was a very productive writer in the following years. In the 1930s and 40s, Kaj Munk became Denmark′s leading playwright.
Læs om Kaj Munks liv og værk, hans kristne dramaer, hans modstand mod nazismen og hans myrderi under besættelsen. Få også indsigt i hans kontroversielle eftermæle og kulturkamp.
Munk was controversial both during his life and after his death, killed by a German SS Group in January 1944.Kaj Munk was multifaceted; he encapsulated values that today we consider right (the fight against oppression and antisemitism) as well as wrong (his embracing of fascism and never becoming a democrat), and he tended to divide people ...
