Stjerne Radio
Stjerne Radio stands in Copenhagen’s Vesterbro district as a reconstructed shopfront and museum window about Danish resistance during the Second World War. Its lavender wall and distinctive lettering recreate the radio and record shop that opened in 1942.
Carl Munck and J.K. Søndergaard soon turned the back room into a printing press for illegal newspapers, including De Frie Danske. In 1943, the Holger Danske resistance group formed there, later carrying out sabotage such as the bombing of the Forum building. English and American music played into the street, BBC Danish broadcasts reached listeners on Sundays, and maps in the window showed air battles over Italy.
The original building was demolished in the mid-1990s, but the façade returned as a museum exhibition in 2015. Displays explore Holger Danske, wartime sabotage, and Jørgen Kieler’s role in helping Danish Jews escape in October 1943. The lavender shopfront remains the clearest detail of a place where secret newspapers, resistance plans, and public defiance once shared one address.
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