Anne Wolden-Ræthinge, known by the pseudonym Ninka, (11 July 1929 – 22 April 2016) was a Danish broadcast and newspaper journalist, biographer and writer who specialised in interviews with high-profile figures.
She first worked at the Copenhagen daily conservative newspaper Nationaltidende in 1951 and authored articles about women's issues at Dagens Nyheder [da; no; sv] from 1954 to 1961 with contributions to Alt for Damerne.
Wolden-Ræthinge worked for the Sunday edition of the newspaper Politiken from 1961, covering social issues and then became the publication's leading interviewer for its feature articles.
[3] She attended Sønderborg Statsskole [da],[1] where she gave brief interviews to the local social democratic newspaper Sønderjyden in her final years there.
[3] After Dagens Nyheder closed in September 1961, Wolden-Ræthinge transferred to the daily newspaper Politiken by its Sunday editor Paul Hammerich.
[3] She came into close contact with many personalities from the worlds of architecture, literature, music, politics, theatre, revues and visual arts,[2] and conducted many interviews with them by focusing on "the psychological empathy based on sympathy, prefers more than she provokes or seeks to hand over.
[3] She interviewed notable world figures such as Ingmar Bergman, Marlene Dietrich and Olof Palme as well as Danish personalities including Carl Theodor Dreyer, Osvald Helmuth, Jens Otto Krag, Per Kirkeby and Carl-Henning Pedersen.