Katrine Winkel Holm | |
Birth Name: | Katrine Krarup |
Birth Date: | 1970 3, df=yes |
Nationality: | Danish |
Education: | University of Copenhagen (cand.theol.) |
Relatives: | Søren Krarup (father) Marie Krarup (sister) |
Children: | 3 |
Katrine Winkel Holm (; born 21 March 1970) is a Danish theologian, priest and author. She co-founded the Danish Free Press Society in 2004, of which she became deputy chairman, and later chairman in 2014. She has been a member of the board of Danish state broadcaster DR since 2006.[1]
Winkel Holm grew up in Seem, and is a daughter of priest and politician Søren Krarup and historian Elisabeth Krarup.[2] She received a cand.theol. (Master of Theology) from the University of Copenhagen in 1997, and has along with her father been connected to the theological movement Tidehverv,[2] and a member of the Danish People's Party.[3]
She co-founded the Danish Free Press Society with Lars Hedegaard in 2004, and the Islam-Critical Network in 2006 following the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy,[4] [1] both described as counter-jihad organisations.[5] [6] The latter was a network of priests in the Church of Denmark which stated that Christians and Muslims do not believe in the same God.[7] She became chairman of the Danish Free Press Society in 2014 after Hedegaard had been subjected to an assassination attempt,[8] [9] and has previously been the editor of its online magazine Sappho.dk.[10] She left the position as chairman to Aia Fog in 2018.[11] She has also blogged for Jyllands-Posten, and written numerous newspaper debate articles,[4] including for Document.no, where she has lauded Bruce Bawer's defence of counter-jihad blogger Fjordman among others.[10]
She became parish priest in Borup in 2015,[4] [2] and in 2023 in Slagelse.[12] She is married and has three children.[2]