Fredrikke Louise Nielsen, was a popular Norwegian actress and a women's pioneer. She played more than 300 roles in her twenty-six-year-long career, and was personally directed by both Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
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Fredrikke Nielsen as a teenager. Owned by Nora Schwabe-Hansen.
Fredrikke Nielsen in the role as Hjørdis in The Vikings at Helgeland on The Norwegian Theatre in Bergen, 1859. The Theatre archive, University of Bergen.
Fredrikke Nielsen in a nice gown, ca. 1860. The Theatre Archives, The University of Bergen.
The Preacher. Oil painting by Knud Bergslien. The Theatre Archives, The University of Bergen.
From around 1878 Fredrikke Nielsen started to seek the Methodists in Bergen, after her eldest son urged her mother to "leave the stage and follow the Lord."
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Fredrikke Louise Nielsen, was a popular Norwegian actress and a women's pioneer. She played more than 300 roles in her twenty-six-year-long career, and was personally directed by both Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Ibsen chose her to play Signe, one of the lead characters in The Feast at Solhaug (1856), which was his first audience success. In 1880, Nielsen left the stage and joined the Methodist Movement in Bergen. She now became a preacher, first in Scandinavia, and later in the United States. She felt a strong social commitment and used the pulpit for preaching other topics than religion, such as women's and children's rights.
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