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22-654: The theatre was founded by the Swedish theatre director Johan Peter Strömberg . With the exception of the unsuccessful attempt of Martin Nürenbach in 1772, there was no public theatre in Oslo or anywhere in Norway prior to 1827. Theatre was performed by foreign travelling theatre companies, or privately by Det Dramatiske Selskab . Strömberg wished to establish a professional public theatre in Norway, with professional native actors. He obtained

44-463: A child or a teenager at that time. Carl Seuerling married the Swedish actress Margareta Lindahl , and took over the travelling Swedish theater company of his father-in-law Peter Lindahl , thereby staying in Sweden. Nürenbach later stated (1769) that he was the "stepson" of Carl Seuerling, but this statement is unclear and is familial relation to Seuerling is unconfirmed. If the identification of stepson

66-572: A member of the Stenborg Company, is known to have performed as an acrobat in the Humlegårdsteatern in Stockholm , where he made such a success that the theater company had to expand the seats of their stage building in order to give room for the large number of spectators. It was as a dancer he was famed, and performed as such after every play, but he is noted to have performed as an actor in

88-649: A permanent theater in Nyköping , but was forced to close in 1802. During this epoch, Swedish language theater companies toured also in Norway, where there were otherwise only private amateur theatres of the Det Dramatiske Selskap . From 1803 onward, he and his spouse were active in Norway both as performers and as instructors of dance and acting in several Norwegian cities. They acted as instructors in Trondheim 1803-04 and 1805, at Kristiansund in 1804-05, and at

110-615: A theater permit from the Danish crown, and founded the first dramatic school in 1825 in order to train the first group of native actors. On 30 January 1827, the theatre was inaugurated with a performance of Strömberg's students, the pioneer group of Norwegian actors. However, the Norwegian actors was not considered trained enough to meet the standards of the audience, and Strömberg was forced to engage trained actors from Denmark. On 4 November 1827, Strömberg performed his play Fredsfesten in praise of

132-410: Is known that she was present) and it is unknown if she performed. In February 1772, the theater of Martin Nürenbach was closed and he and his wife departed Norway for Sweden. Not long after, the Norwegian theater ban of 1738 was reintroduced in Norway, but he is noted to have closed his theater and left prior to this, of unknown causes. The theater of Martin Nürenbach was the first permanent theater in

154-514: Is to be taken literarally, he could have been the son of Carl Seuerling's first wife Maria Heidensköld in her previous marriage, but this is unconfirmed. A woman by the name of Jacobina Nürembach is listed as a maid of the Seuerling theater company, and may have been a relative. Martin Nürenbach is listed as a member of the Stenborg Company in a passport to Uppsala in 1767, and as a member of

176-484: The Det Dramatiske Selskab in Oslo. In 1809, he was given permission to create a public theater in the Norwegian capital. His wish was to create a Norwegian theater with Norwegian actors. In 1825, he founded Det Strømbergske Teater, an acting school as preparation for the theater. In 1827, Christiania Offentlige Theater was inaugurated in Oslo. This was the first professional public theater in Norway since

198-556: The Christiania Theatre was inaugurated on 4 October 1837. Johan Peter Str%C3%B6mberg Johan Peter Strömberg (19 August 1776 – 20 September 1834) was a Swedish stage actor, dancer and theatre director. He was the founder of the first public theatre and acting school in Oslo, Norway . Johan Peter Strömberg was born in Stockholm to tobacco manufacturer Anders Olofsson Strömberg and Ulrica Sophia Bourchell. In 1797, he married

220-652: The Union of Sweden and Norway , the theater was boycotted. He subsequently when bankrupt and was forced to close the theater in 1828. He died in poverty during 1834 in Aker . The building burned in 1835. However, his pioneer project was to have a lasting effect as his theater was to become the Christiania Theatre in 1836. This became the first lasting permanent public theater in Norway. Martin N%C3%BCrenbach Martin Nürenbach or Nurembach (unknown – 1780)

242-463: The Seuerling troupe in 1767–68. As a member of the theatre company, he performed rope- and wire-dancing and acrobatics, and identified himself as an equilibrist . He also participated in plays as an actor, though he had only moderate success in this field. As a member of the Stenborg and Seuerling theatre companies, he toured both Sweden and Finland, which was at that time a Swedish Province. Nürenbach

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264-530: The Swedish dancer Maria Christina Sophia Ehrnström (1776–1853). Johan Peter Strömberg made his debut in the travelling theater company of E. M. Wederborg at Nyköping in 1793. He toured Sweden as a member of several travelling theatre companies, such as the ones of Carl Seuerling , Johan Peter Lewenhagen , A. O. Hofflund and Johan Anton Lindqvist . In 1798-99 he attempted to start a permanent theater in Uddevalla , and in 1800, he made another attempt to start

286-399: The dance performances were more appreciated than the theater plays, which is why dance performances were mixed with the plays. Aside from Nürenbach himself, nothing is known about the members of his cast, other than that they were said to have been Norwegians performing in the Danish language. Nürenbach's wife Anna Katarina Rancke is not mentioned at all during their stay in Norway (though it

308-479: The director Carl Anton Saabye , after which it was renamed to Christiania Offentlige Theater. The first opera performed in public in Norway, Deux mots by Nicolas Dalayrac , was performed here in 1831, directed by August Schrumpf with Augusta Smith in the main role. The theatre burned down on 5 November 1835, after which the theatre company performed in the house of the Det Dramatiske Selskab until

330-476: The history of Norway and was as such a pioneer institution for which Nürenbach is remembered, though it was not to last. In 1780, it was succeeded by the private amateur theatre Det Dramatiske Selskap , but no new public professional theater was founded in Oslo until the Christiania Offentlige Theater was founded by Johan Peter Strömberg in 1827. In September 1773, Martin Nürenbach, again

352-494: The professional dancer and musician Christina Doreothea Stuart . In the end of 1770, he had formed a small theatre company of Norwegian stage actors. In December 1771, Nürenbach was given royal permission upon application to perform theatre performances in Oslo, thus founding the first permanent theatre in a city where previously only travelling theatre companies or private amateur societies similar to Det Dramatiske Selskab had performed. Between December 1771 and February 1772,

374-646: The role of Harlequin on the 8 October. "Nürenbach with spouse" departed as members of the Stenborg theater company to Finland, where he bought the permit to stage theater in Finland from Petter Stenborg in companionship with the actor Beckman. From 1774 to 1780, Nürenbach-Beckman would have been the only travelling theater company active in Finland, but not much information is known of their activity. In 1781, Nürenbach's colleague Beckman returned to Stockholm where he sued Nürenbach for having broken their contract by abandoning him and taken all their actors with him: however,

396-410: The short lived theater of German acrobat stage actor, Martin Nürenbach over fifty years prior. The theater was however not to be successful. Johan Peter Strömberg was forced to hire Danish actors because there where no Norwegian professionals and his Norwegian students where criticized for not being educated enough. When he performed the Swedish play Fredsfesten on 4 November 1827, a play which praised

418-540: The theatre staged a number of theatrical pieces, pantomimes, dancing, and acrobatics by Norwegian artists, performing in Danish . According to advertisements, comedies by Holberg were performed mixed with dance performances. Not much is known of the activity of the Nürembach theatre. Martin Nürenbach himself was evidently an appreciated and popular dancer, but not considered as good in the capacity of an actor, and it seems as if

440-406: The unpopular Swedish-Norwegian Union , which attracted great criticism. In the spring of 1828, Strömberg was declared bankrupt, rented the theatre and the theatre permit to one of his Danish actors, Jens Lang Bøcher , and returned to Sweden. Jens Lang Bøcher replaced almost all of the Norwegian staff with Danes, allowing only five Norwegians to remain. On 22 June 1832, Strömberg sold the theatre to

462-536: Was a German acrobat , stage actor, dancer and equilibrist active in Sweden, Norway and Finland. He was a pioneer in Norwegian theater history by founding the first public theater in Oslo in the year 1771. The early life of Martin Nürenbach is sketchy. He was from Germany, but his year of birth is unknown. He likely came to Sweden in the travelling theater company of the German theater director Carl Seuerling , who arrived to Sweden in 1759, and are estimated to have been

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484-528: Was active as a dance instructor and advertised extensively and offered dance lessons in the cities he passed on his tours, which was evidently an important side income. He was at one point active as the "city dancing master" in Gothenburg . At some point, he married his colleague, the dancer Anna Katarina Rancke. In July 1770, Martin Nürenbach made his debut as a dance teacher and performer in Oslo in Norway. From October 1771, he performed in companionship with

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