Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

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Barbro Margareta Eriksdotter Hiort af Ornäs (born August 28, 1921 in Gothenburg - † November 27, 2015 ) was a Swedish theater and film actress . In her seven-decade career, she has taken on more than 60 theater roles. It was also seen in more than 60 film and television productions from the 1940s. Together with Ingrid Thulin , Eva Dahlbeck and Bibi Andersson , she received the Acting Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for Ingmar Bergman's feature film Nahe dem Leben (1958) .

biography

Training and theater work

Barbro Hiort af Ornäs was born in Gothenburg in 1921 as the third child of the engineer Hans Erik Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs (according to other sources, Hjort af Ornäs ) and his wife Alma Ärnström. She grew up with two older brothers in her hometown before the family moved to Stockholm , where the father ran his own engineering office from 1926. Hiort af Ornäs attended the local Schartaus commercial high school. In 1939 she made the acquaintance of the young theater director Ingmar Bergman , who used her in his second play Galgmannen at the Stockholm Mäster Olofs-gården theater . Until Bergman was appointed director of Helsingborg City Theater in 1944, she was given roles in his productions on a recurring basis. In 1943 she was accepted at the Royal Drama School in Stockholm, where well-known actors such as Greta Garbo , Ingrid Bergman and Eva Dahlbeck began their training.

Hiort af Ornäs made her professional stage debut in the same year at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm. She was represented with a supporting role in Stig Torsslow's production of Alexandre Dumas ' The Three Musketeers (1943), in which she acted alongside Olof Bergström , Anita Björk and Mai Zetterling . After completing her training in 1945 appeared Hiort af Ornäs in other productions at the Royal Dramatic Theater, where she with supporting roles in both Swedish pieces as well as modern fabrics such as the part of Sue Bayliss in Arthur Miller's All My Sons (1947) by Rune Carlsten entrusted has been. From the late 1940s, Hiort af Ornäs joined various private theaters in Stockholm. From 1947 to 1948 she worked for the New Theater ("Nya Teatern") before moving to the Vasateatern from 1948 to 1952 . From 1953 to 1954 she worked for the Intima Teatern , interrupted by a one-year guest performance at the Gothenburg City Theater (1952/53), where she appeared in Jean Anouilh's Invitation to the Castle (1952) and Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding (1953), among others .

From 1955 to 1958 Hiort af Ornäs rejoined the ensemble of the Stockholm Vasateatern . After a season at the Stockholm City Theater (“Stadsteater”, 1964/65) she resumed her work at the Royal Dramatic Theater in the early 1970s with the part of Maria Nikolajevna in Mats Ek's production of Leo Tolstoy's Testamente (1970). She was there until the end of the 1990s with supporting roles in plays by Edward Bond ( Restoration , 1983), Bertolt Brecht ( Life of Galilei , 1974), Rolf Hochhuth ( Doctors , 1982), Christopher Hampton ( Dangerous Liaisons , 1990), William Shakespeare ( Romeo and Juliet , 1971; Maß für Maß , 1979), August Strindberg ( Herr Bengts hustru , 1971; Myten om styrka och svaghet , 1975; Kronbruden , 1988) or Peter Weiss ( Hölderlin , 1973). In 1977 Hiort af Ornäs also launched the Poesihörnan (German: "Poetry Corner" ) program, which took place in the café of the Royal Dramatic Theater and combined poetry with food. She made another late comeback on the Swedish theater stage in 2006 at the age of 84 in Maria Löfgren's production of Jösses Flickor in the Stockholm City Theater, in which she acted alongside well-known actresses such as Sofia Ledarp , Lena B. Eriksson and Katarina Ewerlöf .

Film career

Parallel to her work at the theater, Hiort af Ornäs made her debut in Swedish film in 1943 with the supporting role of Kaj Ekman in Olof Molander's drama Women in Captivity . Further appearances under well-known film directors such as Gustaf Molander ( Fästmö uthyres , 1950), Alf Sjöberg ( Barabbas - Der Mann im Dunkel , 1953) or the German Eugen York ( Das Fräulein von Scuderi , 1955) followed. Hiort af Ornäs only became known to an international audience in 1958 when he worked again with Ingmar Bergman on their first joint film project, Nahe dem Leben . In the film adaptation of stories by Ulla Issakson , she slipped into the role of a head nurse who took part in the fate of three patients (played by Ingrid Thulin , Eva Dahlbeck and Bibi Andersson ) in the maternity ward of a hospital . That same year the drama was invited to compete at the 11th Cannes International Film Festival . The performance by Thulin, Dahlbeck, Andersson and Hiort af Ornäs was well received by the festival jury headed by the French writer Marcel Achard and all four actresses were the first Swedes to be awarded the actor's prize.

The role of sister Brita, for which she also found recognition in her home country, is exemplary for the roles that Hiort af Ornäs has played since the beginning of her film career. She was often filled in confidence-inspiring roles such as a nurse, school principal or social worker. However, the actress was unable to build on her early international success in the following decades. From the beginning of the 1960s Hiort af Ornäs appeared increasingly in theater adaptations for Swedish television, including Sophocles ' Antigone (1960), Eugene O'Neill's O Wildnis! ( Ljuva ungdomstid , 1961) or George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1968). Ingmar Bergman gave her sporadic small roles in his films Ach, these women (1964), Schande (1968), Passion (1969), The Touch (1971) and Scenes of a Marriage (1973), as did the young Lasse Hallström ( ... In contrast, being a very father , 1979; Kom igen, nu'rå!, 1981). A larger Swedish audience remembered Hiort af Ornäs from the 1980s through old age roles, for example as the mother of Lasse Åberg in his successful Stig Helmer comedies Sällskapsresan 2 - Snowroller (1985), SOS - En segelsällskapsresa (1988), Den Ofrivillige golfaren (1991) and Hälsoresan - En smal film av stor vikt (1999). She completed her last television role in 2001 with the part of Ester in Martin Asphaug's The Wrong Judgment (2001), based on the crime novel of the same name by Håkan Nesser . Hiort af Ornäs last appeared in cinemas with Eric Donell's and Martin Söder's crime film Imzeichen des Murderers (2005).

Barbro Hiort af Ornäs was in a relationship with Hans Ullberg (1920–1996), himself an actor and director of the Riksteatern , the national Swedish theater company. In 1989 she was awarded the royal medal of honor Litteris et Artibus for her services as an actress , which had been awarded to such well-known personalities as Tage Danielsson , Erland Josephson and Astrid Lindgren .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1943: Women in captivity (Kvinnor i fångenskap)
  • 1949: Flickan från tredje raden
  • 1950: Fästmö uthyres
  • 1953: Barabbas - The Man in the Dark (Barabbas)
  • 1955: The Miss von Scuderi
  • 1957: Casino affair
  • 1958: Near Life (Nära livet)
  • 1961: The poachers from Teufelsmoor (Pojken i trädet)
  • 1964: Oh, these women (För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor)
  • 1964: Loving couples (Älskande par)
  • 1968: Shame (Skammen)
  • 1968: Like the naked wind of the sea (... som havets nakna vind)
  • 1969: Som natt och dag
  • 1969: Passion (En passion)
  • 1971: The Touch (Beröringen)
  • 1973: Smutsiga fingrar
  • 1973: Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap)
  • 1973: The Wedding (Bröllopet)
  • 1979: ... being a father, on the other hand, is very much (Jag är med barn)
  • 1981: Kom igen, nu'rå! (TV movie)
  • 1985: Sällskapsresan 2 - Snowroller
  • 1988: SOS - En segelsällskapsresa
  • 1991: Amelia
  • 1991: The Ofrivillige golfaren
  • 1997: Selma & Johanna - en roadmovie
  • 1999: Hälsoresan - En smal film av stor vikt
  • 2001: Håkan Nesser - The Wrong Judgment ( Återkomsten , TV film)
  • 2005: In the sign of the murderer (Den utvalde)

Web links

Commons : Barbro Hiort af Ornäs  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile at the Swedish Film Institute
  2. ↑ Data sheet ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. father's at www.matkull.se (Swedish; accessed April 5, 2009)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.matkull.se
  3. ↑ a b c Portrait in Svensk Filmdatabas (Swedish; accessed April 5, 2009)
  4. ↑ a b portrait ( memento of the original from September 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ingmarbergman.se (English; accessed on April 5, 2009)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ingmarbergman.se
  5. ↑ Ingegärd Waaranperä: Jösses, vilken återkomst at dn.se, April 11, 2006 (Swedish; accessed April 6, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Hiort af Ornäs, Barbro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hjort af Ornäs, Barbro; Hiort af Ornaes, Barbro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2015