Bettina Heltberg

Bettina Heltberg (born September 28, 1942) is a Danish writer and actor.

The daughter of Niels Johannes Heltberg and Grethe Heltberg, she was born in Frederiksberg and grew up there. She attended acting school and later completed a degree in political science from Aarhus University in 1972. Heltberg worked as a secretary for the Danish Ministry of Culture from 1972 to 1974.[1][2]

She appeared in the 1962 film Det støver stadig.[2]

Heltberg wrote on culture and was an editorial writer for the newspaper Politiken. From 1975 to 1977, she was editor of the Social Democrat journal Ny Politik.[3]

She married Svend Auken in 1966; the couple had four children. They divorced in 1993. Heltberg's autobiographical book Hvor der handles. Erindringsbilleder , published in 1996, includes a behind the scenes view of the leadership convention where Auken was defeated as party leader by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen. The book was awarded the Weekendavisens litteraturpris in 1996.[1][3]

Selected works[1]
gollark: I'm sure a few people will, but not very many as long as they can retain a vaguely familiar environment and forget about the cost to them eventually.
gollark: Unlikely. Almost nobody actually cares.
gollark: The slow death of general-purpose computing evidently continues.
gollark: They *also* require secure boot? Um. This is increasingly beelike.
gollark: Probably increasingly accursed DRM.

References
  1. "Bettina Heltberg". History of Nordic Women's Literature.
  2. "Bettina Heltberg". danskefilm.dk (in Danish).
  3. "Bettina Heltberg (1942 - )". Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (in Danish).
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