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Dennis Jürgensen (born 3 February 1961) is one of the most popular Danish writers for kids and young adults. A study among Danish kids from 11 to 18 years showed that 90% knew who he was and his fan club has almost 1000 members. In Denmark, a country of only about five and a half million inhabitants, that is a very significant size for a fanclub.

Jürgensen is mostly a writer for the youth but as he has said himself some of his books should be considered to be for adults. He has written in almost any genre but his most preferred genres are fantasy, science fiction and horror or a combination of those three. But he has also written crime-books, books about love and realistic novels.

Humor is an ongoing feature, a thing he focuses a lot on. One of his idols, Stephen King, once said his biggest wish was that someone would die of terror after reading his book. To that Jürgensen has remarked that his biggest wish is that someone will laugh so hard from reading his book that people in the bus will turn around and look at him.

He grew up in Brønshøj near Copenhagen (today he's living in Rødovre), he was doing okay in school with the exception being Danish. He drifted around after taking his exam in 1978 and tried unsuccessfully to send manuscripts to various publishers. But during the summer of 1981 Kristian Tellerup from the publishing company Tellerup answered to one of his scripts, Love at First Hiccup, a youth-novel about love and of course a lot humor. It was published the same autumn and was an enormous success and has since been reprinted 20 times. It was later put to the screen in 1999 and became a big success in Denmark. Since then he has written more than 50 novels and made three feature films, for example an adaptation of his Kærlighed ved første hik, starring Robert Hansen and Sofie Lassen-Kahlke.

Dennis Jürgensen is quite shy of the media and doesn't often appear on TV, radio etc. However, on 22 August 2014 he was guest on the radio programme Syvkabalen on national radio Radio24Syv, where he openly elaborated on his work as an author and motivations.

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Freddy-serien #1: Balladen om den forsvundne mumie by Dennis Jürgensen

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Freddy-serien #1: Balladen om den forsvundne mumie

Hvad gør man, hvis ens ven forsvinder i en verden, som man ikke har kendskab til, men gerne vil have ham tilbage? Det er første gang en lille forsamling af gysenes mestre bliver stillet over for denne svære situation. Vampyren Dracula, varulven Eddie, Frankensteins monster Boris og den hovedløse Sir Arthur Fieldstein savner deres distræte kammerat mumien Mummy, siden han tog ind til byens museum for at besøge sin onkel i den egyptiske afdeling. Situationen er kritisk, da Mummy, forvirret som han er, kunne komme til at afsløre sig selv og vennerne overfor omverdenen. Det er ellers lykkedes dem at holde sig skjult for omverdenen i et gammelt slot, der benyttes til voksmuseum. Om dagen står de stille som voksfigurer i rædselskabinettet, men om natten trækker de sig tilbage til mere magelige omgivelser i riddersalen, hvor de fordriver tiden med skak og andre små sysler. Desværre er Mummy altså forsvundet og må genfindes for hver en pris, uden at deres eksistens røbes.

Efter forslag fra den hovedløse ridder arrangerer de en kidnapning af et menneskebarn, fordi børn er lettere at have med at gøre. Næste dag da mørket falder på udvælger de sig en 11-årig dreng, Freddy, på grund af hans glødende interesse for skrækmagasinet SLIM, der altid har historier med om uhyggelige væsner. Derfor reagerer han ikke så frygtsomt som andre børn. Da han først er blevet sat ind i balladen om den forsvundne mumie, hjælper han de venlige monstre helt frivilligt. Det er dog stadig ikke nogen nem opgave for en ligbleg vampyr, en vel(?)klædt ulv, en mand i tøj fra 1500-tallet med hang til at miste hovedet og en klodset kæmpe at slippe for opmærksomhed. Det går da også galt, og snart går den vilde jagt gennem byen mellem vennerne, der prøver at slippe væk med Mummy, og politiet, der ikke helt er klar over, hvem eller hvad de jagter.

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Udgivelsesdato11 jul. 2008

Udgivet afTellerup A/S

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ISBN lydbog9788790100698