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Utviklingen av realisme som stilideal i skuespillerkunsten i Bergen på slutten av 1800-tallet

Abstract

This article examines the developement in the art of acting in Bergen, during the last half of the 19th century. I will present a historical view on the developement of a realistic acting style; from the bourgeois acting tradition, starting in the 1750s, and up to the beginning of the 1900s at ‘Den Nationale Scene’ in Bergen. I will use actress Octavia Sperati and her work as the orientation point for the analyses. I will examine local and external conditions for a developement in the art of acting, how some theatre managers and directors can be viewed as initiators to a change in the art of acting, and how the contemporary dramas of mainly Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson sets new conditions regarding how to act.