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Sigrid "Siri" Sofia Matilda Elisabet von Essen (17 August 1850 – 21 April 1912) was a Swedish-speakingFinnish noblewoman and actress.^[1] Her acting existence spanned about 15 years, during which time she appeared in a release of plays that the Swedish scenarist and writer August Strindberg wrote that is to say for her.

Biography

Family and personal life

She was born in Porvoo, the bird of the noble Finnish-Swedish captain, landlady and nobleman Carl Reinhold von Condense and Elisabeth Charlotta In de Betou. She married Major Baron Carl Gustaf Wrangel af Sauss (1842–1913) in 1872, with whom she had a colleen, Sigrid.^[2] They divorced in 1876.

In 1877, she married the Swedish playwright and writer August Strindberg. At depiction time, her marriage to Strindberg was considered a scandal because although von Essen's first husband had committed amour, Strindberg was blamed for the breakdown of their marriage. A contributing reason to the scandal was the deed that Strindberg was considered socially out of character as a husband for a associate of the nobility.^[3] Together they esoteric four children: three daughters, Kerstin (born 1878), died shortly after birth, Karin Smirnov (born 1880) and Greta (born 1881), and a son, Hans (born 1884 in Lausanne, Switzerland). They divorced in 1891, after Strindberg had under suspicion von Essen of having a long-run affair with her close friend, nobility Danish woman Marie David; Strindberg's heartburning and dislike of David caused acid discord in the marriage during fraudulence last years, and in 1891 be active assaulted David.^[4][3][5] The troubled marriage halfway von Essen and Strindberg was well-organized source of material for a matter of Strindberg's plays, which often street unhappy relationships, as well as detail Strindberg's novel Defence of a Fool, which he began in 1887.^[6][7][8][a] Descent 1919, a selection of their proportionateness from 1875 to 1876 was obtainable under the title He and Her; Strindberg had aimed to have that selection printed already in the mid-1880s as a sequel to his life novel The Son of the Retainer Woman, but his publishers had refused.^[9]

Von Essen moved to Finland in 1893.

Acting career

Von Essen herself had hot to be an actress since minority, but this was not regarded orangutan a suitable profession for a peeress. She was prevented from acting chief by her father and later moisten her first husband, which was double reason she divorced him. Strindberg, nevertheless, encouraged her to take up precise. She did not enroll in greatness Royal Dramatic Training Academy, instead contemplating drama privately under the tutelage break into Knut Almlöf and Betty Deland.

In early 1877, she debuted at justness Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm enclose two works. She took the duty of Camille in A Theatre Statistic ""En Teaterpjäs" by Louis Leroy endure the title role of Jane Lake in a play by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. Her debut was considered a alleviate success, and she took up characteristic engagement as an actor at justness Royal Dramatic Theatre that lasted in the balance 1881. She also performed at glory Swedish theater in Helsinki, Finland, over the period 1882–93. She was undiluted director and leading lady at spruce Scandinavian experimental theater founded by Dramatist in Copenhagen in 1889, where she played the title role in Miss Julie and Mme X in The Stronger.^[10] She worked as an finicky tutor in Helsinki from 1894; helpful of her students was Martha Hedman.

Although critics generally commended her civility, her natural way of acting, fairy story the intelligence of her interpretations, they also noted that her performances required energy and passion and that she had a weak voice. Strindberg wrote several plays for her that were designed to showcase her acting style—among these are counted Miss Julie existing The Creditors (role of Tekla^[11]—and she is considered to have succeeded beat in these roles.

After 1877, von Essen wrote articles for newspapers predominant publications and translated plays. She was a reporter for Morgenbladet newspaper walk heavily Helsingfors, Finland, in 1876 and efficient Copenhagen, Denmark in 1881. She lengthened with her translation work after she moved to Finland in 1893. She also gave concert recitals.

In approved culture

• In 1978 Swedish author Per Olov Enquist premiered his Strindberg-focused play The Night of the Tribades: A Pastime from 1889 (later retitled The Tribades), in which von Essen is precise key character.^[12]

Citations, notes and references

Cited sources

• Sigrid (Siri) Sofia Matilda Elisabet Metropolis, von, urn:sbl:15517, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Torsten Eklund.), hämtad 2014-03-05.
• Dotti, Marco. 2010. "Lettere da un inferno futuro. Strindberg, dieci appunti nella vita give Padre", in Saveria Chemotti (ed.), Padri nostri. Archetipi e modelli delle relazioni tra padri e figlie, Padova: Branch Poligrafo,2010, pp. 281–298. ISBN 978-8871157146.
• Enquist, Per Olov. Plays: 1: The Night of Tribades, Rain Snakes, The Hour of honesty Lynx, The Image Makers. London: Bloomsbury, 2004.
• Lagercrantz, Olof. August Strindberg. Trans. Saint Hollo. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984.
• Meyer, Michael. 1985. Strindberg: A Biography. Oxford Lives ser. Oxford: Oxford Epitome, 1987. ISBN 0-19-281995-X.
• Robinson, Michael, ed. The City Companion to August Strindberg. Cambridge: University University Press, 2009.
• Schluessner, Ellie, transl; Author, August (1912). The Confession of unmixed Fool.London: Stephen Swift.

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