Aud Egede-Nissen

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Aud Egede Nissen before 1930 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Aud Egede-Nissen also known as Aud Richter (born May 30, 1893 in Bergen , Norway , † November 15, 1974 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian silent film actress and theater director .

Life

Aud Egede-Nissen was born in Bergen as the daughter of the Norwegian politician Adam Egede-Nissen. In 1913 she made her debut in the Danish film When Love Speaks ( Scenens børn , Bjørn Bjørnson ). In 1914 she played for the first time in German film, which became her professional home. She initially played primarily in entertainment films , in 1917 under the director Max Mack in The Maharaja's Favorite Wife . Her roles then tended to be more seductive women with a negative touch. In 1916 she had already played Homunculus in Otto Rippert's six-part work . She also uses the cliché of wickedness in Sumurun (1920, Ernst Lubitsch ), as the dancer Cara Carozza in Dr. Mabuse, the Player (1921, Fritz Lang ) and in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Phantom (1922). Her cast as prostitutes in Karl Grune's Die Strasse (1923) and in the social drama Die Verrufenen (1925) by Gerhard Lamprecht is therefore logical . The sound film ended her career in Germany, and she only appeared in two films in Norway in the early 1940s.

Instead, Egede-Nissen found its main field of activity under the name of Aud Richter in the Norwegian theater. She made her debut as a theater director in 1939 at the side of the Norwegian director, journalist, screenwriter and writer Arne Skouen with the play Ansikt mot ansikt (Face to Face) in Oslo's Søilen Teater . At the beginning of the Second World War she worked as a director at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen and then also at the Oslo Nye Teater and the Nationaltheatret in Oslo and at the Rogaland Teater in Stavanger . From 1955 to 1962 she worked mainly at the Nationaltheatret, where she staged nine different performances as a theater director. Her most successful work was a 1959 staging of the comedy Det lykkelige valg by Nils Kjær at the Nationaltheatret and at Den Nationale Scene.

Aud Egede-Nissen was married to the actors Georg Alexander and Paul Richter . Her son Georg Richter from her first marriage to Georg Alexander also became an actor and film producer. Her four younger sisters and two younger brothers also worked as actors: Ada Kramm (also Ada van Ehlers ; 1899–1981), Gerd Egede-Nissen (1895–1988), Stig Egede-Nissen (1907–1988), Oscar Egede-Nissen (1903–1976), Gøril Havrevold (1914–1992) and Lill Egede-Nissen (1909–1962).

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Anton Rønneberg: Teater hjemme og ute. Article i utvalg. Aschehoug, Oslo 1945.
  • Anton Rønneberg: Nationaltheatret gjennom femti år. Gyldendal, Oslo 1949.
  • Paul Gjesdahl: Premièrer and Portretter. JW Cappelen, Oslo 1957.
  • Einar Skavlan: Norsk theater . 1930-1953. Aschehoug, Oslo 1960.
  • Hans-Michael Bock (Ed.): CineGraph. Lexicon for German-language films. Edition Text + Criticism, München 1984 ff. (Loseblattausgabe).
  • Gunnar Iversen: Egede Nissen Filmsbyraa A / S. In: Z. Filmtidsskrift. No. 1, 1991, ISSN  0800-1464 .
  • Nils Johan Ringdal: Nationaltheatrets historie. 1899-1999. Gyldendal, Oslo 2000, ISBN 82-05-26482-1 .

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