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Berit Winge Brænne (18 September 1918 – 6 September 1976) was a Norwegian actress, children's writer and songwriter.


Personal life

She was born in Aker, a daughter of architect Sigmund Brænne and Bodil Winge, and sister of actress
Randi Brænne Randi Brænne (26 May 1911 – 1 June 2004) was a Norwegian actress. Biography Brænne was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was a daughter of Sigmund Brænne and Bodil Winge and was a sister of actress and writer Berit Brænne (191 ...
. She was married to sculptor
Hugo Frank Wathne Hugo Wathne (25 September 1932 – 6 September 2017) was a Norwegian sculptor and art instructor. Biography Hugo Frank Wathne was born in Stavanger, Norway to Frank Ingolf Wathne and Birgit Rosenvold. His father was a painter and glass artist. ...
from 1950 to 1951. She was a sister-in-law of actor
Frank Robert Frank Robert (né Frank Robert Olstad; 12 October 1918 – 13 July 2007) was a Norwegian singer, dancer and actor. He is particularly remembered for playing the title character in the popular audio play ''Dickie Dick Dickens''. Personal life ...
.


Career

Brænne made her stage debut at the Oslo theatre ''Masken'' in 1938, and worked the next twelve years as actress at various theatres in Oslo, Bergen and
Stavanger Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the ...
. From 1946 she contributed with songs and audio plays to the radio show ''
Lørdagsbarnetimen ''Lørdagsbarnetimen'' ("The Saturday Children's Hour") was a children's radio programme produced by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and broadcast every Saturday from 20 December 1924 until 11 September 2010 with a forced interruptio ...
'' (the Saturday children's hour) for the
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. From 1954 she contributed to the popular morning show ''Barnetimen for de minste''. Her first story here was ''Dukkemannen Tulleruskomsnusk''; this was later published as a book in 1961. Her first book, ''Historien om Tamar og Trine'' from 1958, is a story about a sailor's family who has adopted children from different parts of the world. The book contained the song "Jorden snurrer rundt og rundt med barn på alle kanter" (), which found its way into songbooks for schoolchildren. The sequels ''Tai-mi, Tamar og Trines søster'' and ''Tom Tangloppe, bror til Tamar, Trine og Ta-mi'', were published in 1959 and 1960, respectively. From 1964 she wrote several television shows for children. Her trilogy ''Tørris'' (1967–1969) treats the life in a rural society in the mid 19th century from a child's perspective. The boy "Tørris" grows up with parents, grandparents, siblings and animals around him, in an idyllic narrative. Both the books about "Tamar" and "Trine" and the series about "Tørris" were illustrated by Borghild Rud. Brænne was awarded Riksmålsforbundet's honorary prize in 1956. She died in Oslo in 1976.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Braenne, Berit 1918 births 1976 deaths Actresses from Oslo Norwegian stage actresses Norwegian children's writers Norwegian women children's writers Norwegian songwriters NRK people Norwegian radio actresses 20th-century Norwegian women writers 20th-century Norwegian actresses Writers from Oslo