Vår teater explained

is a pioneering Swedish theatre company for children with a number of stages around Stockholm, founded in 1942.

History

In the late 1920s and 1930s, librarian Elsa Olenius pioneered storytelling and simple theatre games and pantomime for children at the Stockholm City Library's Hornsgatan branch, an activity that grew in popularity as more and more children became interested.[1] [2] In 1941–1942, Ingmar Bergman ran Sweden's first children's theatre in Medborgarhuset under the name, a children's branch of his amateur theatre company for adults, .[3] When his work there ended, Olenius took over the premises in 1942 and started a more developed children's theatre activity for interested children between seven and sixteen years old, with improvisation exercises to music, pantomime and other exercises.[4] [5] Gradually, real performances for audiences were created and eventually it was called . Astrid Lindgren, among others, wrote plays specifically for the theatre.

As a result of the large number of children and good economic growth, the Stockholm City Council decided in 1955 to support the proposal of the Children's Welfare Board to allow to create more permanent children's theatres around the city, initially in Årsta, Gröndal and Hägersten.[6] A theatre management course was also set up under Olenius' direction and in the autumn of 1958 Olenius became Sweden's first children's theatre consultant and subsequently the head of a Greater Stockholm theatre agency. In 1969 there were ten different stages; in 1992 there were 14 permanent stages and some 40 additional groups in the Greater Stockholm area. In 1996, merged with the Stockholm and became .[7] By 2002, around 150,000 children had participated in 's activities,[8] including many well-known theatre and cultural figures including Marika Lagercrantz, Tomas Bolme, Cecilia Nilsson, Rebecka Liljeberg, Josephine Bornebusch, Anita Wall, and more.[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Society

After Olenius' death in 1984, the Friends of Society – the – was established in 1988[15] to provide advocacy management and financial assistance related to, and also to award the Penguin Prize to a person or an organization that has in one way or another been responsible for extraordinary work in the field of children and youth culture.[16]

Notes and References

  1. Brodin . Gunilla . Varför sagostund? Sagostundsverksamheten på folkbibliotek igår och idag . 2015 . . sv.
  2. Web site: Helander . Karin . Translated by Alexia Grosjean . Elsa Viktoria Olenius . 2022-05-22 . . 2022-08-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220814121101/https://skbl.se/en/article/ElsaOlenius . live .
  3. Web site: Ingmar Bergmans Arkiv . 2022-05-21 . www.ingmarbergmanarchives.se . sv . 2022-05-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220524215838/http://www.ingmarbergmanarchives.se/Detail/Person.aspx?InstitutionID=153 . live .
  4. Larsson . Marianne . 1988 . Drama på Postmuseum : ett samarbete med Vår Teater Medborgarhuset . Postryttaren . sv . 0586-6758 . 939745055 . 2023-08-02.
  5. Web site: Lindvåg . Anita . Elsa V Olenius . 2022-05-22 . . sv . 2022-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220522083645/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=7704 . live .
  6. 2001 . Teaterlivet på Söder 2001 . Meddelanden . sv . Föreningen Södermalm . 11.
  7. Web site: Röshammar . Martin . 2021-01-15 . Dramaläraren som vägrar att hålla käften . 2022-05-22 . Ämnesläraren – Praktisk-estetiska ämnen . sv . 2021-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210303054835/https://www.lararen.se/praktisk-estetiska-amnen/reportage/dramalararen-som-vagrar-att-halla-kaften . live .
  8. Book: Österlind, Eva . Cutting Edge kulturskole! Forskning, fag og praksiser i manesjen. 27.-28. oktober 2015. Konferanserapport. . 2016 . Norsk kulturskoleråd . Østern . T.P. . Trondheim . no, sv . Drama/Teater i den svenska kulturskolan - förutsättningar och forskning . 2022-05-22 . 2022-06-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220626105943/https://kulturskoleradet.no/_extension/media/1265/orig/2015_Cutting_Edge_konfereanserapport.pdf . live .
  9. Web site: Marika Lagercrantz . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211019052002/http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=68132 . 2021-10-19 . 2022-05-22 . . 12 July 1954 . sv.
  10. Web site: Tomas Bolme . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211105070510/http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=66215 . 2021-11-05 . 2022-05-22 . . 21 April 1945 . sv.
  11. Web site: Cecilia Nilsson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210927183414/http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=person&itemid=115053 . 2021-09-27 . 2022-05-22 . . 15 July 1957 . sv.
  12. Web site: Rebecca Liljeberg . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210920134203/http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=260461 . 2021-09-20 . 2022-05-22 . . 13 May 1981 . sv.
  13. Web site: Josephine Bornebusch . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210920142701/http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=162765 . 2021-09-20 . 2022-05-22 . . 12 September 1981 . sv.
  14. Web site: Anita Wall . 2022-05-22 . Svensk filmdatabas . 11 July 1940 . sv . 2021-10-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211019032419/http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=66163 . live .
  15. Web site: 1993-10-30 . Elsa Olenius . 2022-05-22 . DN.SE . sv . 2022-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220522083645/https://www.dn.se/arkiv/namn-och-nytt/elsa-olenius/ . live .
  16. Web site: 2021-05-18 . Vår Teater . 2022-05-22 . varteater.se . sv . https://web.archive.org/web/20210518192416/http://varteater.se/pingvinen.html . 18 May 2021 . dead.

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