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Isaac De Broen
Isaac de Broen (1783–1814), was a Swedish stage actor and theatre manager. He was the son of Abraham de Broen and Maria Elisabet de Broen and the brother of Debora Aurora de Broen. He married the actor and theatre director Christina Margareta Cederberg in 1804, and became the father of the actor Charlotta Deland and father-in-law of Pierre Deland. After the death of his mother 1809, he took over the ''Djurgårdsteatern'', at the time the only theatre allowed in the capital aside for the Royal Dramatic Theatre The Royal Dramatic Theatre ( sv, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The the .... He is remembered for his attempt to break the monopoly of the royal theatres in the capital. In 1810, he managed to acquire permission for him and his wife to managed a theatre within the city borders of the capital during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham De Broen
Abraham de Broen (1759–1804) was a Swedish actor, stage manager and director. Biography Abraham Isaaksson De Broen belonged to the elite of the pioneer generation actors of the Royal Dramatic Theatre. He was also the founder and first director of the ''Djurgårdsteatern''. He was a very popular character actor and mainly played elder male roles in so called burgher plays, often tragedies. In 1781 he was employed at the theater at Bollhuset and was later one of leading actors at Royal Dramatic Theatre. In 1780, he was married to Maria Elisabet de Broen (1756-1809) and was the father of Isaac de Broen (1783-1814) and Debora Aurora de Broen (1790-1862). In 1801, De Broen was granted permission to found the Djurgårdsteatern and serve as its director. Abraham De Broen died on April 4, 1804 at Linköping in Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or ''län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Elisabet De Broen
Maria Elisabet de Broen née Grundt (23 April 1756 – 1 May 1809), was a Swedish translator and theatre manager. Biography She was the daughter of Isak Grundt and married the actor and theatre director Abraham de Broen in 1780; they had eight children, many of whom became well known actors. She was the mother of Isaac de Broen and grandmother of Charlotta Deland. After the death of her husband in 1804, she took over the ''Djurgårdsteatern'', at the time the only theatre allowed in the capital aside for the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and worked successfully as its manager until her death. Under her guidance the theatre also toured the country and visited Gothenburg several times. Broen was a personality of the contemporary cultural world in Sweden. She is known as the translator of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan to the Swedish language (1789). Aside from the theatre she also owned a coffee house, and are noted to have sent food to Carl Michael Bellman during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Margareta Cederberg
Christina Margareta Cederberg (1786–1858), was a Swedish stage actor and theatre manager. She was the daughter of Carl Magnus Cederberg and Rebecca Momma and the sister of the actor Catharina Cederberg. She married the actor and theatre director Isaac de Broen in 1804, and became the mother of the actor Charlotta Deland and mother-in-law of Pierre Deland. After the death of her husband in 1814, she took over the ''Djurgårdsteatern'', at the time the only theatre allowed in the capital aside for the Royal Dramatic Theatre. She was the second woman to lead the theatre, after her mother-in-law. In 1815, she left the theatre to Karl Wildner, the husband of her sister-in-law. In 1818, she married the actor Christoffer Svanberg, manager of a theatre company touring Sweden and often visited Gothenburg. Christina Cederberg was an actress of some repute and renown in the Swedish province theatre in the early 19th-century, particularly during her second marriage in the 1820s, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotta Deland
Hedvig Lovisa ''Charlotta'' Deland (née de Broen; 7 February 1807, Stockholm - 28 May 1864, Stockholm), was a Swedish stage actress. She was born in to an acting family and connected to many well known figures within the theater world, which gave her valuable contacts during her own career. She was the daughter of the actors Isaac de Broen and Christina Margareta Cederberg, managers of the ''Djurgårdsteatern'', and stepdaughter of the theatre director Christoffer Svanberg, who was the leader of his own travelling theatre company. She was also the niece of Carl Wildner, who took over the ''Djurgårdsteatern'' after her mother. Charlotta Deland was educated in a fashionable girls' school. She made her debut in the travelling theatre company of her stepfather Christoffer Svanberg in 1831. She married her colleague Pierre Deland the same year, and in 1833, he took over the company, where she was active until 1861. She was a leading lady of the Deland theatre company, which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Deland
Pierre Joseph Deland (13 December 1805 – 13 November 1862) was a Swedish stage actor and theatre director. He was the director of the Deland Theater Company in 1833-1861, a travelling theater famous in both Sweden and Finland, and as such an influential and well known figure of the stage life of both countries in the mid 19th-century. He was the founder of the ''Dramatiska och musikaliska artisternas pensionsförening'' ('Retirement Fund for Dramatic and Musical Artists') in 1857. Life Pierre Deland was born to Jean Pierre Deland, violinist of the ''Hovkapellet'', and Eva Magdalena Eklund. His paternal grandfather Louis Antoine Deland was from Luxembourg and hairdresser to the queen, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. He was the nephew of the ballet dancer Louis Deland of the Royal Swedish Ballet, and the brother of the actors Lars Mauritz Deland and Fredrik Deland. Career Pierre Deland was active as an interpreter, a private teacher, a clerk and an officer of the ''Livgar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djurgårdsteatern
Djurgårdsteatern (Swedish for "Djurgården Theatre"), was an historical Swedish theatre, active at Djurgården in Stockholm between 1801 and 1929 (from 1863 in a new building). It was the only theatre in Stockholm outside the royal theatres during the monopol of the royal theatres between 1799 and 1842, and it also played an important part in abolishing this royal monopol. Until 1842, it was a "summer theatre", but later, it became an all-year theatre and an important one, called the "theatre of the people". It was described as a wood building with the same exterior of a barn, and was painted yellow. History In 1795, Abraham de Broen (1759–1804), actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, asked for the permission to build and run a theatre, and a theatre-privilege were given to himself, his wife and their children for as long as they wished to use it. In 1798, a new theatre monopoly was stated, which banned all theatres except the royal ones inside the city border of Stockholm. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Dramatic Theatre
The Royal Dramatic Theatre ( sv, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The theatre has been at its present location in the Art Nouveau building at Nybroplan, Stockholm, since 1908. The theatre was built by the architect Fredrik Lilljekvist. Famous artists like Carl Milles and Carl Larsson were involved in making the decorations, and some of the interior decorations were made by Prince Eugen. The theatre's acting school, the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, produced many actors and directors who would go on to be famous, including Gustaf Molander (who also taught there), Alf Sjöberg, Greta Garbo, Vera Schmiterlöw, Signe Hasso, Ingrid Bergman, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, and Bibi Andersson. The school was split off as a separate institution in 1967 (see Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting). Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Swedish Businesspeople
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1783 Births
Events January–March * January 20 – At Versailles, Great Britain signs preliminary peace treaties with the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain. * January 23 – The Confederation Congress ratifies two October 8, 1782, treaties signed by the United States with the United Netherlands. * February 3 – American Revolutionary War: Great Britain acknowledges the independence of the United States of America. At this time, the Spanish government does not grant diplomatic recognition. * February 4 – American Revolutionary War: Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States. * February 5 – 1783 Calabrian earthquakes: The first of a sequence of five earthquakes strikes Calabria, Italy (February 5–7, March 1 & 28), leaving 50,000 dead. * February 7 – The Great Siege of Gibraltar is abandoned. * February 26 – The United States Continental Army's Corps of Engineers is disbanded. * March 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1814 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine. * January 3 ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison surrenders to the British after ten days of bombardment. ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Metz: Allied armies lay siege to the French city and fortress of Metz. * January 5 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Puruarán: Spanish Royalists defeat Mexican Rebels. * January 11 – War of the Sixth Coalition – Battle of Hoogstraten: Prussian forces under Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow defeat the French. * January 14 ** Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway into personal union with Sweden, in exchange for west Pomerania. This marks the end of the real union of Denmark-Norway. ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Antwerp: Allied forces besiege French Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Theatre Managers
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Swedish Male Actors
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
