Sven Grønlykke (1927–1998) and Lene Grønlykke (18 October 1933 – 28 November 1990) was a Danish husband-and-wife partnership who started out in film-making but are today most known for their achievements as culinary entrepreneurs. They founded the food company

Løgismose Løgismose is a Danish food company producing and retailing delicacies and other products under its own brand. The company has the subsidiaries: Løgismose Wine, and Løgismose Dairy, and also controls Falsled Kro on Funen and the Michelin-star ...

, named after the family estate Løgismose Castle, as well as the gourmet restaurants Falsled Kro and Kong Hans Kælder.

Biography

Sven Grønlykke began his career in sales of farming machines and later made a move into production of

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for the furniture industry with factories in Germany, Sweden, Norway and Spain. In 1953 he married Lene (born Meyer Petersen), who was a journalist, and after making a fortune from the sale of their business empire the couple acquired the ASA Filmudlejning in Copenhagen in 1964 to pursue a career in film-making as well as Løgismose Castle on the island of

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in 1965. Writing and directing the films in collaboration, they first made the children's film ''Thomas er fredløs'' from 1967 and then experienced a breakthrough with '' The Ballad of Carl-Henning'', inspired by the

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and won the Danish Film Critics Award for Best Danish Film on 1969. Over the next few years Sven Grønlykke produced a number of films before they sold their film studio to the Danish state in 1972. The couple had plans to open a restaurant in the Basque Country but instead ended up buying the run down Falsled Kro, located not far from their Funen estate, turning it into a boutique hotel and

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-style gourmet restaurant. They also began to produce cheese and chocolate on their Løgismose estate and to import French wines, naming their company

after the estate. In 1976 they opened the restaurant Kong Hans Kælder in Copenhagen together with the writer

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and his wife Inge. In 1981 they released their third and last film, '' Thorvald og Linda'', a drama set among railway workers in

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in 1912.

Filmography

Producer

* '' Naboerne'' (1966) * ''Thomas er fredløs'' (1967 ) * '' The Ballad of Carl-Henning'' (1969) * ''Farlige kys'' (1972)

Director

* ''Thomas er fredløs'' ( 1967) * '' The Ballad of Carl-Henning'' ( 1969) * ''Thorvald og Linda'' (1982)

Writer

* ''Thomas er fredløs'' (1967) * '' The Ballad of Carl-Henning'' (1969) * ''Thorvald og Linda'' (1982)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gronlykke, Sven and Lene Danish film directors Danish restaurateurs Danish food and drink company founders Married couples