Alma Isabella Fahlstrøm (née Bosse; 23 November 1863 – 29 May 1946) was a well known Norwegian

stage actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

, director and theatre manager. Alma Isabella Bosse was born in

Skanderborg Skanderborg is a town in Skanderborg Municipality, Denmark. It is situated on the north and north eastern brinks of Skanderborg Lake and there are several smaller ponds and bodies of water within the city itself, like Lillesø, Sortesø, Døj S ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

. She was the daughter of Johan Heinrich Bosse and Anne-Marie Lehmann. She was the sister of sociologist Ewald Bosse (1880–1956), singer Dagmar Möller and actress

Harriet Bosse Harriet Sofie Bosse (19 February 1878 – 2 November 1961) was a Swedish–Norwegian actress. A celebrity in her day, Bosse is now most commonly remembered as the third wife of the playwright August Strindberg. Bosse began her career in a min ...

(1878–1961) who was married to playwright

August Strindberg Johan August Strindberg (; ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 pla ...

(1849–1912). In 1889, she married fellow actor Johan Fahlstrøm (1867–1938). In 1897, she and her husband established the

Centralteatret Centralteatret (); (full name: Oslo Nye Centralteatret) is a theatre on Akersgata, in the city centre of Oslo, Norway. Centralteatret was established by the husband-and-wife acting team of Johan Fahlstrøm and Alma Fahlstrøm, in 1897. The thea ...

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) 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 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

. The theatre was especially known for a repertoire of light comedy, revues and operettas, as well as Norwegian drama. The couple subsequently operated the

Fahlstrøm Theater Fahlstrøm or Fahlström or Fahlstrom is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976), Swedish Multimedia artist * Alma Fahlstrøm (1863–1946), born in Denmark, Norwegian actress and theatre manager, wife ...

on Torggata in Oslo from 1903 to 1911. In 1912, the couple's only child, Arne Jonas Fahlstrøm (1893–1912) died in the ''Titanic'' disaster. To help avoiding further shipping disasters, they donated nearly all their fortune to th
Norwegian Sea Rescue Society
which used it to purchase two rescue boats that were named in their son's honor.

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Norwegian passengers on the ''RMS Titanic''
1863 births 1946 deaths People from Skanderborg Municipality Norwegian stage actresses Norwegian theatre managers and producers 19th-century Norwegian actresses {{Norway-actor-stub