 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(May 2024) |
Emil Poulsen (9 July 1842 - 8 June 1911) was a Danish actor and stage director. He was the leading male actor at the Royal Danish Theatre for thee decades. He was the half brother of actor Olad Poulsen and the father of actors Johannes Poulsen and Adam Poulsen.
Poulsen was born out of wedlock on 9 July 1842 to Sophus Danneskiold-Samsøe (1804–94) and Pouline Sophie Henckell (1819–88). His mother married to shoemaker and servant Hans Poulsen (1807–65). [1]
Poulsen had his debut on 16 April 1867 at the Royal Danish Theatre as Erasmus Montanus. In 1893, he also started working as a stage director. He resigned from the Royal Danish Theatre in 1898. His last stage performance was on 4 November 1900 [1]
Poulsen was married twice. In 1930, he married to Ane Cathrine Verner (c. 1811–40). On 17 August 1871, he was married to Anna Augusta Dorothea Winzentine Margrethe Næser (1849–1934) She was the daughter of captain in the Royal Danish Navy Johan August Kjerulff N. (1795–1857) and Winzentine Henriette Benedictine Albertine Kirkerup v. Schønberg (1809–83). They were the parents of actors Adam Poulsen and Johannes Poulsen and editor Svenn Poulsen.
Poulsen was created a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1878. He was awarded the Cross of Honour in 1898.
He died at Villa Ørnæs outside Helsingør on 8 June 1911. He is buried at Frederiksberg Old Cemetery.
Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Danish poet, playwright, literary critic, literary historian son of the political writer Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758–1841), and of the novelist, afterwards the Baroness Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, was born in Copenhagen. He promoted Hegelian philosophy and introduced vaudeville to Denmark.
Johan Georg Forchhammer was a Danish mineralogist and geologist.
Olaf Poulsen was perhaps the best-known Danish comedic stage actor of his time. He was famous for playing such roles as Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Falstaff, among others for the Royal Danish Theatre. His performance as Old Ekdal in an 1885 production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck was particularly acclaimed. Olaf was by accounts an outsize personality, unafraid to insult wealthy or noble men even when insulting a man in public was a crime in Denmark. Five minutes of his improvisation on a 1913 film reel were described at the time as "the best film ever to leave a Danish factory."
Fredrica Löf, also known as Fredrique Löwen, was a Swedish stage actress. She was the first female star at the newly founded national stage Royal Dramatic Theatre, which was founded the year of her debut.
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann was, together with his son-in-law Niels W. Gade, the leading Danish composer of the 19th century, a period known as the Danish Golden Age. According to Alfred Einstein, he was "the real founder of the Romantic movement in Denmark and even in all Scandinavia". J.P.E. Hartmann was the third generation of composers in the Danish musical Hartmann family.
Johan Ludvig Heiberg was a Danish philologist and historian. He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of Euclid's Elements that T. L. Heath translated into English. He also published an edition of Ptolemy's Almagest.
Johannes Poulsen was a Danish actor and director. He debuted with the Dagmar Theatre in 1901. In 1909 he joined the Royal Theatre as an actor, and from 1917 was also a stage director. Memorable roles included Peer Gynt, Shylock, Henry VIII and the fool in Twelfth Night. Poulsen debuted on film in 1910 with Regia Art Films, and later starred in four films for Nordisk Film. He wrote the book Gennem de fagre riger which was published in 1916.
Events from the year 1842 in Denmark.
Events from the year 1849 in Denmark.
Events from the year 1874 in Denmark.
Viggo Hjalmar Wiehe was a Danish stage and film actor whose career spanned over five decades.
Kristian Andreas Leopold Mantzius was a Danish actor.
Johan Gudmann Rohde was a Danish painter, lithographer and designer. He was the principal founder of Den Frie Udstilling, established in 1891 to allow artists to exhibit works which did not fall within the Academy's selection criteria.
Sigrid Marie Elisabeth Neiiendam née Andersen (1868–1955) was a Danish actress who played some 200 parts at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. She is remembered in particular for her interpretations of Ludvig Holberg's plays.
Svend Melsing was a Danish stage and film actor, theatre director and playwright whose career spanned nearly forty years.
Elisabeth Caroline Cathrine Dons (1864–1942) was a Danish operatic mezzo-soprano who performed at the Royal Danish Theatre from 1885. Thanks to training in Paris, she was later able to take on soprano roles, becoming Denmark's operatic prima donna by the 1890s.
Christian Conrad Sophus, Count Danneskiold-Samsøe, normally referred to as Christian Danneskiold-Samsøe, was member of the Danish comital family Danneskiold-Samsøe, landowner and administrative leader of the Royal Danish Theatre.
Johanne Marie Emilie Brun née Prieme (1874–1954) was a Danish operatic soprano. She made her début at the Royal Danish Theatre in 1896 as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute. In 1916, after being honoured with the title of Royal Chamber Singer, she sang at opera houses in Germany, becoming a favourite of the Nuremberg opera and later performing in Aachen and Danzig. In 1924 she returned to Denmark where she had to cope with financial difficulties.
Lilly Lamprecht née Camradt (1887–1976) was a Danish operatic soprano. She made her début at the Royal Danish Theatre in 1911 in the title role of Liden Kirsten. Her roles included Madame Butterfly, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and Micaëla in Carmen. She left the company in 1931 but returned in 1933 to perform Marguerite in Faust. Lamprecht was honoured as a Royal Chamber Singer in 1922.