Johan Peter Strömberg
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Johan Peter Strömberg (19 August 1773, Stockholm – 20 September 1834, Aker) was a Swedish actor, dancer and theatre director. He was the founder of the first public theatre and theatre school in Oslo in Norway.
Born to the Swedish tobacco manufacturer Anders Olofsson Strömberg and Ulrica Sophia Bourchell. Married in 1797 in the Swedish dancer Maria Christina Sophia Ehrnström (1776–1853).
Biography
He debuted in a travelling theatre company in Nyköping in 1793. The Swedish theatre troupes toured also in Norway, were there were otherwise only private amateur theatre; Det Dramatiske Selskap. He and his spouse was active as dancing teachers in several Norwegian cities from 1803; in 1806–09 in Det Dramatiske Selskab in Oslo. In 1809, he was given permission to create a public theatre in the Norwegian capital. He wanted to create a Norwegian theatre with Norwegian actors, and started a theatre school in 1825. In 1827, he opened his theatre, the first since the short lived experiment by Martin Nürenbach (1771). He was forced to hire educated Danish actors, became impopular when he performed a play about the union between Sweden and Norway, and went bankrupt in 1828. His theatre became the Christiania Theatre.
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- http://www.wergeland2008.no/Articlelist.aspx?m=118&amid=615
- http://www.folkedans.com/folkedans/stildans_christiania.htm
- http://www.trondheim.com/content.ap?thisId=92936399
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- Swedish male stage actors
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- 18th-century Swedish dancers
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- 1773 births
- 1834 deaths
- 19th-century Swedish male actors
- 19th-century Norwegian male actors
- Norwegian male stage actors
- 19th-century Swedish dancers
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