Helge Rode

{{Short description|Danish writer, critic and journalist (1870–1937)}}

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Helge Rode (16 October 1870 – 23 March 1937)[http://adl.dk/adl_pub/forfatter/e_forfatter/e_forfatter.xsql?ff_id=86&nnoc=adl_pub Helge Rode] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227185452/http://adl.dk/adl_pub/forfatter/e_forfatter/e_forfatter.xsql?ff_id=86&nnoc=adl_pub |date=2012-12-27 }} at Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur was a Danish writer and critic, and journalist for Politiken, Berlingske Tidende, and Illustreret Tidende.[http://www.nomos-dk.dk/skraep/helge_rode-bio.htm Helge Rode (1870-1937)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028135721/http://www.nomos-dk.dk/skraep/helge_rode-bio.htm |date=2008-10-28 }} at Nomos-DK.dk He was born in Frederiksberg, a son of Margrethe Rode,{{cite encyclopedia|title=Margrethe Vullum |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Irene |last=Iversen |authorlink= |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://nbl.snl.no/Margrethe_Vullum/utdypning |language=Norwegian |accessdate=22 June 2013}} the brother of politician Ove Rode, and father of actor Ebbe Rode.[http://www.gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=helgerode Helge Rode - Dansk forfatter] at Gravsted.dk In 1905, he married the writer Edith Rode, with whom he had four children.{{cite web|url=https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/170/bio/1706/|title=Edith Rode (1879 - 1956)|author=Kühlmann, Lone|publisher=Kvinfo|accessdate=17 September 2020 |language=Danish}}

He was a critic of Georg Brandes and the Modern Breakthrough.[http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Litteratur/Dansk_litteratur/1870-1900/Helge_Rode Helge Rode entry] at Gyldendal Encyklopædi Composer Carl Nielsen's piece Moderen (The Mother) was written for a play by Rode in 1920–1921.