Sossen Krohg (born Sossen Anker Olsen; 18 December 1923 – 12 February 2016) was a Norwegian playwright and stage and film actress.
Personal life
She was born in
Kristiania
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
(now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of newspaper editor Kristoffer Anker Olsen and Ingeborg Cappelen Hille Finne. She was married to ski jumper
Thorleif Schjelderup
Thorleif Schjelderup (20 January 1920 – 28 May 2006) was a Norwegian ski jumper, author and environmentalist.
He was born to Ferdinand Schjelderup and Marie Leigh Vogt.Guy Krohg (1917–2002) from 1949.
Career
Sossen Krohg graduated from the
Det Norske Teatret
Det Norske Teatret ( en, Norwegian Theater)Moe, Jens. 2011. ''My America: The Culture of Giving''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, p. 133. is a theatre in Oslo. The theatre was founded in 1912, after an initiative from Hulda Garborg and Edvard Drabl ...
school of theater in 1946 and made her stage debut in the play ''Kranes konditori'' which was based on the novel from 1945 by Norwegian author
Cora Sandel
Sara Cecilia Görvell Fabricius (20 December 1880 – 3 April 1974), better known by her pen name Cora Sandel, was a Norwegian writer and painter who lived most of her adult life abroad. Her best-known works are the novels now known as the ''Alb ...
(1880–1974). She was appointed at
Det Norske Teatret
Det Norske Teatret ( en, Norwegian Theater)Moe, Jens. 2011. ''My America: The Culture of Giving''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, p. 133. is a theatre in Oslo. The theatre was founded in 1912, after an initiative from Hulda Garborg and Edvard Drabl ...
from 1948 to 1952, and at
Folketeatret
Folketeateret is a theatre in Oslo, Norway. The building has been used as a movie theatre and as an opera house. The theatre has 1,400 seats.
History
The theatre itself operated from 1952 to 1959, but the institution has a much longer history. ...
from 1952 to 1960. She made her film debut in ''
Døden er et kjærtegn
''Death is a Caress'' ( no, Døden er et kjærtegn) is a 1949 Norwegian film noir starring Claus Wiese, Bjørg Riiser-Larsen and Ingolf Rogde. Based on a 1948 novel by Arve Moen, it was Edith Carlmar
Edith Carlmar (born Edith Mary Johanne Ma ...
'' from 1949 directed by
Edith Carlmar
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(1911–2003).
Sossen Krohg lived and worked in
Paris
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for several periods of his life, introducing in the 1960s. She established the stage ''Scene 7'' as artistical director at
Club 7
Club 7 was a cultural club in Oslo, Norway, active from 1963 to 1985. It was regarded a centre for counterculture in Norway in the 1960s through the 1970s. There was a wide tolerance for alternative lifestyles, including homosexuality.
History
Clu ...
in
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...
in 1966 and run a small avant-garde theater until the club closed in the spring of 1985.
She wrote several plays for children, which were staged at Scene 7. She also published the memoir book ''Hekletøy med store hull'' (Oslo; Gyldendal, 1986). From 1998 onward she played the character "Astrid Anker-Hansen" in the television
soap opera
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''
Hotel Cæsar
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