Lillebil Ibsen

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Lillebil Krohn (1916)

Lillebil Ibsen (also Lillebil Christensen , born Sofie Parelius Monrad Krohn ; born August 6, 1899 in Kristiania , Norway , † August 22, 1989 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian dancer and actress in stage and film.

Live and act

Sofie Krohn received training as a ballet dancer from her mother at a very young age and made her debut in 1911 at the National Theater in her hometown Oslo: There you could see the student as a princess on the pea in the fairy tale of the same name. In 1915 Sofie Krohn made her debut as an actress with a fairy tale at the Nationaltheatret. Thanks to her dance skills, she quickly got to know half of Europe under the banner of “Madame Lillebil” and performed in Paris, London and finally in Berlin, where she and Max Reinhardt engaged as prima ballerina “Lillebil Christensen” in the middle of the First World War on the stages he led left a lasting impression, for example, in the pantomime "The Green Flute".

Lillebil Christensen stayed in Berlin in 1917/18 and gave her debut as a film actress under this name with a supporting role in EA Dupont's crime story Europe post restocked . In the following year she was seen with one of the two leading female roles in Mauritz Stiller's drama The Song of the Red Flower , where she had Lars Hanson as her film partner. Another year later, the Dane Urban Gad brought her back to Berlin to give her the central part of Eva Sorel in Gad's two-part "Christian Wahnschaffe" film adaptation of Weltbrand and Escape from the Golden Dungeon alongside Conrad Veidt . Here the Norwegian, who in the meantime (1919) had married the grandson of the poet prince Henrik Ibsen , Tancred Ibsen (1893–1978), and who now operated as Lillebil Ibsen, was able to demonstrate her dancing skills again.

Lillebil Ibsen remained connected to the different art forms, danced and acted, on stage and in front of the camera, even if the acting became more and more important over the years. Several times she continued touring abroad. In 1922 she was seen in a Norwegian film adaptation of Knut Hamsun's novel Pan - From Leutnant Glahn's Papers , published in 1894 , after which Lillebil Ibsen only appeared sporadically in front of the camera and devoted himself primarily to work at the theater. In 1923 she engaged the Centralteatret , first for the pantomimes Scaramouche with music by Jean Sibelius , then for a production of Dumas ' Die Kamelliendame , a year later Ibsen appeared in the revue theater Chat Noir. With her pantomimes and dances she gave guest appearances in London, Paris, Stockholm and Copenhagen. For 28 years, from 1928 to 1956, Lillebil Ibsen remained a member of the Nye Teater in Oslo, and for the next 13 years (until 1969) she was firmly attached to Oslo's National Theater.

Her range of roles now encompassed all common genres, from comedy to Ibsen plays (such as Nora in Nora or A Puppet's House or Frau Alving in Ghosts ). She was particularly successful as Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's Bunbury and in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's revenge drama The Visit of the Old Lady (1957) and Edward Albee's Insight into a Marriage Hell Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964). For her role as Mrs. Patrick Campbell in Jerome Kilty's two-person play Dear Liar (first published in 1961), Lillebil Ibsen received a critical award.

From the mid-1950s, Lillebil Ibsen also returned to film cameras - she attracted particular attention with the powerful fashion house boss Thyra Lennberg in Arne Mattsson's widely acclaimed crime thriller Mannequin in Red . Since 1962, when she played the aging actress Julia Harrington in the original adaptation of Sidney Carroll of the same name , she has also been seen in television productions. Lillebil Ibsen remained married to him for almost six decades until Tancred Ibsen's death in 1978; she outlived her husband by eleven years. Both were buried in Oslo's Vår Frelsers gravlund cemetery. Her autobiography Det begynte med dansen (German: 'It began with dance') was published as early as 1961 .

Filmography

  • 1918: Europe poste restante
  • 1919: The song of the red flower ( Sången om den eldröda blomman )
  • 1920: world fire
  • 1921: The escape from the golden dungeon
  • 1922: Pan
  • 1931: Likhet for loven
  • 1933: Op med holet
  • 1946: Et spøkelse forelsker seg (co-director)
  • 1955: Arthurs forbrytelse
  • 1958: Mannequin in red ( Mannekeng i rødt )
  • 1962: Julia Harrington (TV movie)
  • 1964: Kjære løgnhals (TV movie)
  • 1965: Høyfeber (TV movie)
  • 1968: Hennes meget kongelige høyhet
  • 1973: Vertinnen (TV movie)
  • 1979: Somewhere, Sometime

literature

  • Lillebil Ibsen: Det begynte med dansen. Autobiography, Oslo: Gyldendal, 1961

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Schikowski : History of Dance . Book Guild Gutenberg, Berlin 1926, p. 159. OCLC 914634787

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personal data
SURNAME Ibsen, Lillebil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christensen, Lillebil; Krohn, Sofie Parelius Monrad (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian dancer, theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Kristiania , Norway
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1989
Place of death Oslo