'Beneath the Ice' is a critically acclaimed audiowalk through Faaborg and Svanninge Hills with Sonja Richter, Pilou Asbæk, Rosalinde Mynster and Elliott Crosset Hove on the cast list.
Experience a star team of actors who take you on an exciting time travel through the majestic Ice Age landscape of the Svanninge Hills. Together with archaeologist Sofie, you’ll walk from Faaborg town up into the hills that shelter the town. Feel your heart beating as you walk upwards with a loving H.C. Andersen in your ears, smell the pine forest and take a closer look at the softness of the hills that the Funen painters Anna and Fritz Syberg fell in love with.
The audiowalk mixes historical reality with fiction and passages from letter exchanges between Anna and Fritz Syberg as well as H.C. Andersen and Riborg Voigt.
Beneath the Ice starts at the harbor in Faaborg at the Archipelago Museum and ends at the top of Lerbjerg in Svanninge Bjerge. From here you walk down to Restaurant Skovlyst and Skovtrolden, from where you can take a bus back to town. Follow the pink signs with our logo along the Archipelago Trail and use the GPS map in the app for your exact location. The route is approximately 7 km long and there are no toilets, water stations or cafés along the way.
The audiowalk is not suitable for people with walking difficulties.
starting point: Øhavsmuseet
Havnegade 3, 5600 Faaborg
final destination: Cafe Skovtrolden
Odensevej 172, 5600 Faaborg
89 kr. / 12 euro per ticket
Buy the ticket in the app
Route length: approx. 7 km + return
Duration: approx. 2 hrs & 30 min.
Recommended from 12 years

Here's how it works
- Download the app 'Baggaardteatret'
- Buy your ticket in the app
- Download the tour to your phone
- Allow the app to always use your location/GPS in app settings
- Start the tour by the Øhavsmuseet at the harbor in Faaborg
- Follow the narrator's instructions and the pink logo signs on the route
- You can take the bus back to Faaborg city from Café Skovtrolden
- Remember headphones and power on your phone
NOTE: To purchase access to our tours in the BaggårdTeatret app, make sure you have a valid credit card linked to your Google Play or App Store account.




Riborg Voight
1806 - 1883
Riborg was 24 years old when a young poet appeared at her wealthy father’s gates one August day in 1830. H.C. Andersen’s diaries tell us that they spent three days together and later wrote letters to each other. It is also said that H.C. Andersen’s fairy tale The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep was written with Riborg Voigt in mind.
Anna Syberg
1870 - 1914
Anna Syberg was born into a family of painters in Faaborg and painted throughout her life. Together with the famous painter Fritz Syberg, she had seven children, whom they raised in a free and modern way. The Sybergs spent the years 1910-1913 in Italy, where Anna created some of her most impressive watercolors.
Hans Christian Andersen
1805 - 1875
The fairytale poet came to Faaborg to visit his friend, Christian Voigt. Here he met his sister Riborg and fell in love. Riborg kept a faded bouquet of flowers that the poet had given her until her death – and when he died, a letter from her was found in a small bag he wore around his neck.
Fritz Syberg
1862 - 1939
Fritz Syberg was a central figure among the Funen painters. After Anna’s death, he married her sister. On his grave monument at Drigstrup Church in Kerteminde is a relief from H.C. Andersen’s The Story of a Mother.
Behind the scenes
Cast
Storryteller: Sandra Yi Sencindiver / Riborg Voigt: Rosalinde Mynster / H.C. Andersen: Elliott Crosset Hove / Anna Syberg: Sonja Richter Fritz Syberg: Pilou Asbæk
The artistic team
Writer: Jannie Schjødt Kold // Director: Jacob Schjødt // Sound design : Mathias Sørensen, Kontrafej // Music: Mathias Sørensen & Morten Winther Nielsen // Dramaturg & producer: Anneline Köhler Juul // Idea by: Jakob Engmann // UK translator: Jonathan Sydenham // DE: Johannes Schwalke // Production & technology: Thomas Dam Jensen & Freja Dreisig Sørensen // Graphic design, website & Illustration: Lea Helene Adelsten Olsen // Press photos from the route: Ard Jongsma // Press photos from the sound studio: Jakob Carlsen // Trailer: Goodwill Film
Beneath the Ice is produced by: Baggårdteatret in collaboration with: Øhavsmuseet & Faaborg Museum




