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Den Nationale Scene
Den Nationale Scene ( en, National Theater) is the largest theatre in Bergen, Norway. Den Nationale Scene is also one of the oldest permanent theatres in Norway. History Opened under the name '' Det Norske Theater'' in 1850, the theatre has roots dating back to its founding on the initiative of the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull. The theatre was created to develop Norwegian playwrights. Henrik Ibsen was one of the first writers-in-residences and art-directors of the theatre and it saw the première in Norway of his first contemporary realist drama ''The Pillars of Society'' (''Samfundets støtter'') on 30 November 1877. The theatre was initially housed in the ''Komediehuset på Engen''. In 1909, The National Theatre moved into the new theatre building at Engen. The current theatre building was designed by Einar Oscar Schou, and opened 19 February 1909 with a production of ''Erasmus Montanus'' by Ludvig Holberg. King Haakon VII of Norway and Queen Maud were in attendance. It soon b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Den Nationale Scene (104015)
Den Nationale Scene ( en, National Theater) is the largest theatre in Bergen, Norway. Den Nationale Scene is also one of the oldest permanent theatres in Norway. History Opened under the name '' Det Norske Theater'' in 1850, the theatre has roots dating back to its founding on the initiative of the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull. The theatre was created to develop Norwegian playwrights. Henrik Ibsen was one of the first writers-in-residences and art-directors of the theatre and it saw the première in Norway of his first contemporary realist drama ''The Pillars of Society'' (''Samfundets støtter'') on 30 November 1877. The theatre was initially housed in the '' Komediehuset på Engen''. In 1909, The National Theatre moved into the new theatre building at Engen. The current theatre building was designed by Einar Oscar Schou, and opened 19 February 1909 with a production of ''Erasmus Montanus'' by Ludvig Holberg. King Haakon VII of Norway and Queen Maud were in attendance. It soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Thomassen
Gustav Thomassen (16 February 1862 – 6 May 1929) was a Norwegian stage actor and theatre director. Biography Thomassen was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of Salmaker Osmund Thomassen (1816-1892) and Caroline Olava Thomine Eckhoff (1828-1871). He made his stage debut in 1881 at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen. He worked at Den Nationale Scene until 1905, and served as theatre director from 1900 to 1905. From 1905 to 1929 he worked as an actor and instructor at Nationaltheatret in Oslo. He was noted for his title role in the four act comedy ''Jan Herwitz. Gamle Bergensbilleder'' which was written by Hans Wiers-Jenssen in 1913. From 1916-1923, he worked as a director. His main effort at the Nationaltheater was the staging of comedies by Ludvig Holberg, especially '' Jeppe på bjerget'' (1722), '' Den Stundesløse'' (1723) ''Erasmus Montanus ''Erasmus Montanus'' is a satirical play about academic snobbery set in rural Denmark. Written by Ludvig Holberg in 172 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einar Oscar Schou
Einar Oscar Schou ( 4 June 1877 - 28 December 1966) was a Norwegian architect. He is most noted for his design of Den Nationale Scene in Bergen, Norway. Background Einar Oscar Schou was born in Oslo, Kristiania, Norway. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, Royal Drawing School from 1898 to 1901. He was assistant to the architect Halfdan Berle in Oslo from 1899-1901. He studied at the Art Academy in Stockholm between 1901-1903. After graduation, he became head of the Agi Lindgren architectural firm in Stockholm and was there for three years. In 1907, he founded his own architectural practice and ran this until after World War II. From 1935-51, he was director of the Bergen Arts School (''Bergens kunsthåndverksskole''), now part of the Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Career His best known work is the design of the theatre Den Nationale Scene at Engen in Bergen. In 1904, he won the competition for the theater building, where his proposal was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordahl Grieg
Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg (1 November 1902 – 2 December 1943) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and political activist. He was a popular author and a controversial public figure. He served in World War II as a war correspondent and was killed while on a bombing mission to Berlin. Background Nordahl Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of Peter Lexau Grieg (1864–1924) and Helga Vollan (1869–1946). He was the brother of Norwegian publisher Harald Grieg (1894–1972) and was distantly related to composer Edvard Grieg. In 1940, he married actress Gerd Egede-Nissen (1895–1988). He studied at the Royal Frederick University (now the University of Oslo) and spent time travelling abroad, sometimes as a tourist and sometimes as a sailor. Receiving the 1924 Norway Scholarship, Grieg spent a year at Wadham College at Oxford, England, studying history and literature. At least one of Grieg's poems, "Kapellet i Wadham College" was inspired by his stay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Aanrud
Hans Aanrud (3 September 1863 – 11 January 1953) was a Norwegian writer. He wrote plays, poetry, and stories depicting rural life in his native Gudbrandsdal, Norway. Life Aanrud, who came from a rural family, was born and raised in Auggedalen, a valley in Gausdal (part of Gudbrandsdal). He attended a grammar school and then practised as a private tutor. When he had some success with his literary works he moved to Oslo. There he was a literary and theatre critic. From 1911 to 1923 he was also an adviser at the national theatre of Oslo.''Aanrud, Hans''. In: Gero von Wilpert (ed.), ''Lexikon der Weltliteratur'' (''Dictionary of World Literature''). Third edition 1988, p. 1. Works '' Chambers Biographical Dictionary'' says "His delightful children's books... deserve their place among the classics". Aanrud gained fame by his realistic and folksy descriptions of the rural life of his home valley before the industrial age. The way of thinking of the ordinary peasants is pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Hansson
Olaf or Olav (, , or British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as ''*Anu-laibaz'', from ''anu'' "ancestor, grand-father" and ''laibaz'' "heirloom, descendant". Old English forms are attested as ''Ǣlāf'', ''Anlāf''. The corresponding Old Novgorod dialect form is ''Uleb''. A later English form of the name is ''Olave''. In the Norwegian language, ''Olav'' and ''Olaf'' are equally common, but Olav is traditionally used when referring to Norwegian royalty. The Swedish form is ''Olov'' or ''Olof'', and the Danish form is ''Oluf''. It was borrowed into Old Irish and Scots with the spellings ''Amlaíb'' and ''Amhlaoibh'', giving rise to modern version ''Aulay''. The name is Latinized as ''Olaus''. Notable people North Germanic ;Denmark * Olaf I of Denmark, king 1086–1095 *Olaf II of Denmark, also Olaf IV of Norway *Oluf Haraldsen (died c. 1143), Dani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Irgens-Hansen
Johan Irgens-Hansen (1854–1895) was a Norwegian literary critic, theatre critic and theatre director. He wrote theatre criticism for the newspapers ''Norske Intelligenssedler'' and ''Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newsp ...''. He was theatre director of the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene from 1890 to 1895. References Further reading * 1854 births 1895 deaths Writers from Bergen Norwegian literary critics Norwegian theatre critics Norwegian theatre directors 19th-century journalists Male journalists 19th-century Norwegian writers 19th-century Norwegian male writers Theatre people from Bergen {{norway-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Valseth
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded from the 7th century ( Odo, son of Uro, courtier of Sigebert III). It was the name of three 10th-century German kings, the first of whom was Otto I the Great, the first Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Ottonian dynasty. The Gothic form of the prefix was ''auda-'' (as in e.g. '' Audaþius''), the Anglo-Saxon form was ''ead-'' (as in e.g. ''Eadmund''), and the Old Norse form was '' auð-''. The given name Otis arose from an English surname, which was in turn derived from ''Ode'', a variant form of ''Odo, Otto''. Due to Otto von Bismarck, the given name ''Otto'' was strongly associated with the German Empire in the later 19th century. It was comparatively frequently given in the United States (presumably in German American families) during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Jæger
Henrik Jæger (4 January 1854 – 17 December 1895) was a Norwegian literary historian, literary critic and playwright. He was born in Bergen as a son of sailmaker Herman Jæger (1824–1871) and Birgitte Pedersen. He was a nephew of Tycho Jæger. In June 1881 he married Marie Louise Holstad (1853–1931), and their daughter Dagmar Helene Jæger (1889–1979) married Olaf Gjerløw. He is known for his early monographs on Henrik Ibsen, and for writing the first large Norwegian literary history, ''Illustreret norsk Literaturhistorie'' (1896). Among his plays are ''Løse Fugle'' and ''Arvegods''. In 1884 he was a co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Heiberg
Gunnar Edvard Rode Heiberg (18 November 1857 – 22 February 1929) was a Norway, Norwegian poet, playwright, journalist and theatre critic. Personal life He was born in Oslo, Christiania a son of judge Edvard Omsen Heiberg (1829–1884) and his wife Minna (Vilhelmine) Rode (8 June 1836 – 1917). He was a brother of Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg, Jacob, Anton Heiberg, Anton and Inge Heiberg, as well as an uncle of Hans Heiberg, first cousin of Eivind Heiberg, Gustav Adolf Lammers Heiberg Helge Rode and Kristofer Hansteen, a first cousin once removed of Bernt Heiberg, Bernt, Axel Heiberg (judge), Axel and Edvard Heiberg and a second cousin of Jean Heiberg. He was married to actress Didrikke Heiberg, Didrikke Tollefsen (1863–1915), whom he met in Bergen, between 1 April 1885 and 1896. On 15 April 1911 he married Birgit Friis Stoltz Blehr (1880–1933). Through his second wife's sister he was a brother-in-law of Sigurd Bødtker. Career Heiberg examen artium, finished his secondary ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grieg (theatre Director)
John Grieg (18 August 1856 – 21 April 1905) was a Norwegian printer, publisher and bookseller. Biography Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of John Grieg (1819-1887) and Jutta Camilla Lous (1825-1901). Grieg attended Bergen Cathedral School and went abroad for further education. He studied bookstores in Copenhagen and printing operations in Gothenburg. In 1877, he returned to Bergen and worked for the printing house of his uncle, Georg Herman Grieg (1826-1910). Dating to 1721, it was the oldest publishing houses in Norway. In 1882, he took over the company under the trade name ''John Griegs boktrykkeri''. Grieg soon made the firm one of the city's biggest and most prestigious publishing houses. He published the magazines ''Samtiden'' which was edited by scientist Jørgen Brunchorst and '' Naturen'' edited by geologist Hans Reusch and historian Gerhard Gran. He was the publisher of '' Bergensposten'' until 1893. He also had the printing of several journals and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Bøgh
Johan Wallace Hagelsteen Bøgh (27 May 1848 – 22 July 1933) was a Norwegian museum director and art historian based in the city of Bergen. Personal life He was born in Bergen as the son of district stipendiary magistrate Ole Bøgh (1810–1872) and his wife Anna Dorothea Sagen (1809–1850). He was the brother of Albert Vilhelm Bøgh. On the maternal side he was a grandson of Lyder Sagen. In October 1875 he married Wenche Gran (1852–1916), a daughter of merchant Christen Knagenhjelm Gran and granddaughter of politician Jens Gran. Their son Christen Gran Bøgh was a notable jurist and tourism administrator. His wife was a sister of Gerhard Gran, and his wife's sister Hanne married Gerhard Armauer Hansen. Career After school, Bøgh first had a short stay at the Royal Frederick University, where he became involved in the Norwegian Students' Society. He then tried his talent as a fiction writer, but failed to break through. He then held various jobs in the cultural sector in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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