Dying flowers

MORE DYING FLOWERS - a critical anthology on Tvind.
(Flere Visne Blomster - en kritisk antologi om Tvind)
by  21 former Tvind teachers
(1980)

Edited by Palle Mller

Husets forlag 1980   ISBN  87-7483-008-2

(285pp)  (in Danish)

This was the first book in Denmark to take issue publicly with Tvind.    It was put together during the mid-1970s by Palle Mller and Heinz Behncke, two left-wing but disillusioned Tvind students, after an unsuccessful journey with the Travelling Folk High School to south America.

The students believed that Tvind was neither democratic nor genuinely revolutionary and fostered closed thinking.   In a selection of poems, essays and fiction, the various contributors take issue with Tvind's claim to be a revolutionary alternative movement.

The title, 'more dying flowers' deliberately harks back to Chairman Mao's famous 1957 dictum, 'Let a hundred flowers bloom' - which was of course followed by the Cultural Revolution and increased state repression in China.     The authors believed the Tvind programme, which was closely modelled on Chairman Mao, also led to repression.

The students professions (in 'real life', ie outside the Tvind world) are both academic and non-academic.  Some are authors, some social workers, dentists, carpenters, or teachers (as many as seven).  They were all, contrary to most people who today join the 'Tvind schools', grown up when they joined Tvind

Some of the headlines in the book:

[Source: FAIR]