Fun facts about the faculty: “Medicinerrevyen”
Most of the time, they spend long days in the study rooms and take on serious duties at the hospitals. But for a couple of months each year, they also add singing, sewing machines, stage lights – and all that jazz. Right now, 75 medical students from the faculty are working hard to put together Denmark’s largest student revue. Their efforts culminate in week 44, when “Medicinerrevyen” (The Medical Revue) 2025 has its premiere. Did you know that...
• ...TV doctor Peter Qvortrup Geisling helped start the very first “Medicinerrevy” back in 1983? It was called “Lattergags”. Neither the Medical Students’ Council nor the doctors’ union, DADL, wanted to guarantee funding for the show, so Peter Qvortrup Geisling went straight to the dean, Palle Juul-Jensen, who agreed to underwrite any potential deficit. That year, the revue played five or six sold-out performances. The final show ended with a party where a young, unknown – and luckily cheap – band performed. The band was TV2. Peter Qvortrup Geisling directed his last “Medicinerrevyen” in 1991 and graduated the following year.
• ...the participants spend about 50 hours a week putting the revue together during the last six weeks before the premiere? And that’s on top of their studies. All the dedicated volunteers are medical students, and they do everything themselves: build sets, sew costumes, write songs and sketches, arrange music, handle sound and lighting, design printed programs, and of course act, sing, and direct every number.
• ...one of the acts in the 2007 revue was a ballet tribute to the sodium-potassium pump? To the sounds of Vivaldi, dancers in leotards illustrated how sodium and potassium cross the cell membrane with the help of ATP – a discovery that the faculty’s own Jens Christian Skou received the Nobel Prize for in 1997. The sketches in “Medicinerrevyen”are not limited to health science topics; they lovingly and satirically portray life within the university and medical education. You can watch the ballet tribute on YouTube – and if you’re ready to enter the rabbit hole, you’ll also find many other gems from “Medicinerrevyen” over the years.
"Medicinerrevyen 2025 – Status Jazzmaticus” premieres Wednesday 29 October 2025, at Hermans in Tivoli Friheden, with five performances in total. At the time of writing, there are still tickets available for the Friday and Saturday matinees.
Tickets can be purchased via “Medicinerrevyen’s” official website
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