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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The two handwritten menu books in Series 1 (the first of them written from the front and continuing from the back the following year) describe Leerberg-Kristensen’s employment from November 1960 to the middle of June 1964 as a cook in Professor Niels Bohr’s Honorary Mansion at Carlsberg (and, upon Bohr’s death in 1962, in Margrethe Bohr’s flat on the street of Østbanegade in Copenhagen). The notes in the menu books describe what was served and which guests visited the Mansion, in part on ordinary days and in part at parties and sumptuous repasts in the so-called Pompeii Hall. Leerberg-Kristensen describes it as a busy and wonderful time, with many prominent guests from home and abroad, including the Danish royal family. Series 2 constitutes Leerberg-Kristensen's personal scrapbook describing Bohr and the Carlsberg Mansion, including personal correspondence with Margrethe Bohr. Its division into "Sections" has been made by the NBA in order to assist users in finding around in the scrapbook.
Biographical Note
Ulla Leerberg-Kristensen was born in 1939 and grew up on the eastern side of the Danish island Funen on a farm with farm workers, so good and well-prepared food has always had a high priority. Her cooking experience derives, first, from skilled housewives, followed by attending a school of home economics, after which she held more independent and responsible positions in fine middle-class and upper-class homes as well as manor houses. After a year in the kitchen at a folk high school north of Trondheim in Norway, she applied for, and obtained, the position as a cook in Bohr’s Honorary Mansion at Carlsberg. Leerberg-Kristensen has many good memories from her employment there, not least time spent with Bohr’s grandchildren, who regularly came to the kitchen to say hello. The summers at Bohr’s summer house in Tisvilde on northern Zealand, to which the entire “menagerie” moved for a couple of months each year, also gave unforgettable and invaluable memories of the Bohr family.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Niels Bohr Archive
Acquisition Method:
The material was borrowed from the creator to be scanned and then returned.
Other Note:
There are two original menu books, the first written both from front to back and back to front, describing parties and private gatherings respectively.
Box and Folder Listing
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