Studioteatret
Studioteatret (literally: The Studio Theatre) was a theatre company in Oslo, established in 1945, a few months after the end of World War II. Jens Bolling and Liv Strømsted took the initiative. The company existed for five and a half seasons, until the autumn of 1950.
Studioteatret was started to provide Norwegian acting with new impulses and ideas, and the repertoire consisted of elder and newer drama. The writers included Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Thornton Wilder, Jean Paul Sartre and Arthur Miller.
At the time of the opening in May 1945, the theatre was led by Claes Gills. Later managers were Gunnar Olram and Ole Oppen.
For a short time, Studioteatret operated from Søilen Teater. It was later located in Carl Johan Teatret.
Information
(Objekt ID 27564)| Object type | Organization |
| Organization type | Theatre company, Private theatre |
| Main focus | Theatre |
| Established | 1945 (closed 1950) |
Contact information
| Address | Oslo, Norway |
Other information
| Legal entity | Other |
In 1941, Jens Bolling was elected leader of The Norwegian Actors' Equity Association's subdivision for young actors. During World War II, the association worked in secred, as an alternative to the Nazi government's theatre academy. The company normally met at the home of Bolling, working with Stanislavski's system. Bolling had gotten to know this more or less randomly. This underground work led to Studioteatret being established in 1945.
Immediately after the liberation of Norway in May 1945, a group of young actors released a flyer, declaring that "The plan of a new and young theatre will be realised!". The flyer was signed by Jens Bolling, Claes Gill, Gunnar Olram, Arne Thomas Olsen, Merete Skavlan and Karl Eilert Wiik.
Studioteatret was an important signal that a new generation of theatre artists could express themselves freely after five years of occupation. The company's working methods and acting style based on Stanislavski's system became dominating in post-war Norwegian theatre. This also laid the foundation for what later became The National Academy of Theatre.
SOURCES:
Annalisa Dal Prá's private archive, donated by Annalisa Dal Prá. 28.06.2017
Bolling, Jens: Teater i krig (literally: Theatre at war). Cappelen, Oslo 1983
Store Norske Leksikon, snl.no, 03.04.2012, http://snl.no/Studioteatret, 09.06.2020, https://nbl.snl.no/Jens_Bolling
Wikipedia, no.wikipedia.org, 16.03.2012, http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studioteatret
| Ole Oppen | – Manager |
| Jens Bolling | – Actor (fra 1948 til 1949) |
| Rolf Just Nilsen | – Actor (fra 1947 til 1950) |
| Barthold Halle | – Other (fra 1947 til 1949) |
| Gunnar Olram | – Theatre director (fra May 1946) |
| Knut M. Hansson | – Manager (fra May 1946) |
| William Nyrén | – Actor (fra 1945 til 1951) |
| Per Sunderland | – Actor (fra 1945 til 1949) |
| Merete Skavlan | – Manager (fra 1945 til May 1946) |
| Claes Gill | – Theatre director (fra 1945 til May 1946) |
| Gunnar Olram | – Manager (fra 1945 til 1946) |
| Kjell Stormoen | – Actor (fra 1945 til 1950) |
| Sverre Hansen | – Actor (fra 1945 til 1950) |
| Liv Strømsted Dommersnes | – Manager (fra 1945 til 1949) |
| Jens Bolling | – Manager (fra 1945 til 1947) |
| Ingrid Bothner | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Edel Eckblad | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Per Gjersøe | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Elisabeth Thams | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Arne Christian Magnussen | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Thorbjørn Narvestad | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Arne Thomas Olsen | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Jan Pande-Rolfsen | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Gerd Wiik | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Anne-Cath. Vestly | – Actor (fra 1945 til 1950) |
| Per Skavlan | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Guro Sunde | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Karl Eilert Wiik | – Actor (fra 1945) |
| Beth Borgen | – Actor (fra 1945) |