Sossen as people became favorite – Dagbladet.no

IT WAS “Hotel Cæsar” that made her popular heritage. “Sepeopera,” she called it even, at its formed riksmål with French-Stavangerske r’s. Within theater-Norway was Sossen Krohg small legendary long before that time.

FROM 1966 TIL 1985 she led “Club 7″ -teatret “Scene 7″. With that, she was very central to the development of a Norwegian theater environment outside institutions. Kompaniet played outreach theater in prisons, senior centers and hospitals. Sossen Krohg acted drama that had never been shown in Norway – pieces of Arrabal, Ionesco and Fo. She let amateurs work together with professional and she portrayed actors Jorunn Kjellsby and Eli-Anne Linnestad. Gerd Brantenberg’s fiery feminist novel “Egalias daughters” was made to “dansical.”

Sossen wrote yourself, nine plays for children. “Skinka Piglet and grunts that would not be Christmas ” was real Christmas tradition from 1975. Most often it was her husband, Guy Krohg, the painter, who created the stage design.

Sossen Krohg was born on 18 December 1923, while Oslo is still called Christiania. Sossen was actually baptized name, pronounced to and surname – not unlike the TV name she later would become known – was Anker Olsen. His father was a newspaperman, later VG editor. His mother was from Stavanger, and whoever gave her Rs she later would come to good use in France.
it was not preppie first time outside Norway. During the war she and her first husband, ski jumper Thorleif Schjelderup, sufficiently active in the Resistance movement that eventually she had to flee to Sweden.

WELL AT HOME In Oslo again she began in 1946 as a theater student at The Norwegian Theatre. The first years she worked there, and then for Folketeatret. Meanwhile, she spent and her husband number two – Guy, who she married in 1949 – a lot of time in France. They brought six children, his, hers and theirs, but it was not an obstacle for hard work.
Among other things, she studied acting at Cours D’Art Dramatique Charles Dullin, and she played – in French – for Théâtre de la Cité Lyon and Compagnie Jean Marie Serreau Paris. Later she remembered this time as a highlight.

leverage she took home to Oslo. On stage and off stage grown out her bohemian image, and she enjoyed making a fuss. Still tell the story of when she in 1953 appeared naked in a transparent tub with skumdottene centrally lined, in “Women” on People Theatre’s stage. Wam and Vennerød assigned her one colorful film role after another, and at NRK, she starred in the early 1970s lesbian Cora Sandel-figure in miniskirts.
She broke age limits, too: In 1986, as 63-year-old, she appeared as steppdanser at Oslo Nye Teater’s main stage, and that 74-year-old’s, she played Ibsen Solveig by Peers homecoming, for Riksteatret. Her latest role was in an episode of the horror series “Horror Bizarre” in 2013.

Sossen Krohg was 92 years old. Norway has lost a personality.

Lillian Bikset is theater critic in Dagbladet.