Augusta Blad

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Augusta Blad (born January 10, 1871 in Copenhagen , Denmark , † November 9, 1953 in Frederiksberg , Denmark) was a Danish theater and film actress , a star of the domestic silent film of the 1910s.

Live and act

The daughter of an insurance director went to the drama school of the Royal Theater ( Det Kongelige Teater ) in her hometown Copenhagen in 1889 and made her stage debut on September 1, 1891 with Arianke Bogtrykkers in the play Barselstuen . After completing her training, Augusta Blad made her professional debut on September 5, 1892 in a performance by Erik og Abel . From then on, the young artist was preferred in tragedies and tragicomedies. The most successful phase of the still young Mimin were the years 1894 to 1910, when Augusta Blad belonged to the Dagmarteatret ensemble. In the years 1898 and 1899 she went on a major tour of Norway with her colleagues and gave guest performances a. a. in the mountains of western Norway . From 1910 Augusta Blad belonged again to the Kongelige Teater for the next four decades, until she retired in 1950. She played alongside famous Danish actors such as Bodil Ipsen , Carlo Wieth and Johannes Poulsen and was considered a brilliant interpreter of Adam Oehlenschläger's works .

At the same time as her move to the Royal Theater, Augusta Blad was brought to film by August Blom in 1910 and made her debut alongside the screen star Valdemar Psilander in the melodrama Temptations of the Big City . She was quickly considered a worthy successor to her greatest competitor of those years, Asta Nielsen , who, however, soon traveled on to Berlin. Blad has starred in productions by Urban Gad , Holger-Madsen , Robert Dinesen, and AW Sandberg , but Blom remained her most ardent supporter. Many of these films were shown in imperial Germany (especially until the outbreak of war in 1914). At the end of the decade, Augusta Blad radically ended her film work and concentrated almost exclusively on the theater again. She returned to the camera in 1940 for a supporting role as a woman consul general; it was to remain Augusta Blad's only sound film.

Augusta Blad was married for five years (1899–1904) to fellow actor Anton Vilhelm Wiehe (1858–1916).

Filmography

  • 1910: Temptations of the Big City (Ved fængslets port)
  • 1911: The avenger of his honor (Det bødes der for)
  • 1911: There is happiness (Gennem Kamp til Sejr)
  • 1911: The dark point (Det mørke point)
  • 1912: The Bride of Death (Døden's brother)
  • 1912: The governor's daughter (Guvernørens Datter)
  • 1912: A Mother's Tragedy (Historien om en Moder)
  • 1912: Nina, the white slave (Det berygtede hus / Den hvide slavehandel III / Pigehandleren Nina)
  • 1912: What breaks life (Elskovs Magt)
  • 1913: Under Mindernes Træ
  • 1913: Two brothers (Broder mod Broder)
  • 1913: Manden med caps
  • 1913: love affair (Elskovsleg)
  • 1913: En stærkere Magt
  • 1914: Et Læreaar
  • 1914: Lower your arms! (Ned med Vaabnene!)
  • 1914: The Apostle of the Poor ( Evangeliemandens Liv )
  • 1915: Kærlighedens Triumph
  • 1915: Barnets Magt
  • 1916: Kay and Christinchen / The Child from Copenhagen (Filmens Datter)
  • 1916: Prince in exile (Manden uden Fremtid)
  • 1916: Penge
  • 1917: Gengældelsen's Ret
  • 1917: You shall be -
  • 1918: Livets Stormagter
  • 1918: The Day of Retribution (Dommens Dag)
  • 1918: Præsten fra Havet
  • 1918: The torchbearer (Mod lyset)
  • 1919: Around the portrait of the king (Rytter statues)
  • 1940: Sommerglæder
  • 1944: Vore skuespillere (short documentary, appearance)

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personal data
SURNAME Blad, Augusta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1953
Place of death Frederiksberg , Denmark