2013 in Denmark

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Events from the year 2013 in the Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Magrethe II
• Prime minister – Helle Thorning Schmidt

Events

• 1 April – The Danish government launches a lockout of all the Danish teachers. The lockout lasts until 26 April.
• 28 April – Danish Resistance Museum in Copenhagen burns.

Culture

Architecture

• 29 April – Henning Larsen Architects' Herpa Concert Hall wins the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.
• 30 May – Gehl Architects are awarded the Nykredit Architecture Prize at a ceremony in Copenhagen.
• 12 June – 3XN's Frederiksberg Courthouse in Copenhagen and Lundgaard & Tranberg's Sorø Art Museum are among the year's nine recipients of RIBA RU Awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
• 20 September – Henning Larsen Architects win the LEAF Awards for Best Public Building of the Year in the Education & Research and Culture categories for Campus Roskilde and Herpa respectively.

Film

See also: Danish films of the 2010s

• 10 February – Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt is nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language at the 66th British Academy Film Awards.
• 30 October – Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt wins the Nordic Council Film Prize.
• 7 December – 26th European Film Awards
  • Susanne Bier's Love Is All You Need wins the award for Best Comedy.
  • Copenhagen-based Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing wins the award for Best Documentary
• 9 December – The Hunt wins the award for Best Foreign Independent Film at the British Independent Film Awards 2013.

Literature

• October 30 – Kim Leine's The Prophets of Eternal Fjord wins the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.

Media

• 28 January – DR launches DR3.
• 4 March – DR launches DR Ultra.

Music

• 18 May – Emmelie de Forest wins the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö with the song Only Teardrops.

Sport

Football

• 5 May – FC Copenhagen wins the 2012–13 Danish Superliga by drawing Brøndby IF 0–0 at Brøndby Stadion.
• 9 May – Esbjerg fB wins the 2012–13 Danish Cup by defeating Randers FC 1–0 in the 2013 Danish Cup Final.

Cycling

• 31 January – Michael Rasmussen admits that he has used performance-enhancing drugs and methods for the most of his professional career.

Deaths

• 7 February – Peter Steen, actor (born 1936)
• 19 March – Holger Juul Hansen, actor (born 1924)
• 4 April - Beatrice Palner, film actress (born 1938)
• 22 April – Vivi Bak, actress (born 1939)
• 20 May – Dr Haldor Topsøe, civil engineer (born 1913)
• 21 May – Count Christian of Rosenborg, cousin of the Danish Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1942)
• 6 June – Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, cellist (born 1932)
• 22 June – Allan Simonsen, racing driver (born 1978)
• 22 June – Henning Larsen, architect (born 1925)
• 1 September – Ole Ernst, actor (born 1940)
• 21 October - Rune T. Kidde, writer, storyteller, musician and artist (born 1957)
• 12 November - Kurt Trampedach, painter and sculptor (born 1943)
• 22 December – Hans Hækkerup, politician and former Minister of Defense (born 1945)