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Nicolai Vemming

Danish theatre producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ6223534
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Nicolai Vemming (born July 7, 1961 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish theatre producer and Managing Director.

He is CEO and co-founder of Pont Neuf, performing fine arts

Trained visual artist from Billedskolen in Copenhagen, Vemming was producer at The Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance in Copenhagen 1989–93. In 1993, he became deputy manager and from 1998 artistic and managing director of Malmö City Theatre, Sweden.

In 2001, Vemming was appointed deputy artistic director at The Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen where he from 2004 headed an extensive program of International guest performances and collaborations with Frank Castorf, Jonathan Meese, Alain Platel, Luc Perceval, Johann Kresnik and Christoph Marthaler.

In 2009 Nicolai Vemming founded the independent production company Unlimited Performing Arts. The Company has produced and toured productions in Europe, USA and China.

From 2016 to 2020 Vemming was co- founder and CEO of the European bureau of MusicAeterna orchestra and choir with offices in Copenhagen and Paris.

He is co-founder and CEO of Pont Neuf, performing fine arts with offices in Paris and Copenhagen.

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“Nicolai Vemming” enters the record as danish theatre producer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nicolai, Vemming and Danish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1989, 1993, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-07-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nicolai, Vemming and Danish.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6223534. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1989, 1993 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from Nicolai Vemming” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.