Aud Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede -Nissen as Aud Richter known ( * May 30, 1893 in Bergen, Norway, † November 15, 1974 in Oslo) was a Norwegian silent film actress and theater director.
Life
Aud Egede -Nissen was the daughter of the Norwegian politician Adam Egede -Nissen in Bergen. In 1913 she debuted in the Danish film When Love Speaks ( Scenens børn, Bjørn Bjørnson ). In 1914 she played for the first time in German cinema, which became her professional home. They first played primarily in filmed entertainment in 1917 under the director Max Mack in the favorite wife of the Maharajah. Their roles then tended more to seducing women with negative touch. Early as 1916 they had played in Otto Ripperts sechsteiligem work Homunculus. The cliché of the wickedness they also served in Sumurun (1920, Ernst Lubitsch ), as a dancer Cara Carozza in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1921, Fritz Lang) and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in Phantom ( 1922). Logically therefore appears their occupation as a prostitute in Karl Grune's The Street (1923 ) and in the social drama The disreputable (1925 ) by Gerhard Lamprecht. The sound film ended her career in Germany, in Norway they occurred only in two films beginning of the 1940s on.
Egede -Nissen instead found in Norway in the theater from 1939 under the name Aud judge until retirement, their new main field of activity. Made her debut as a theater director in 1939 in a theater in the areas must Teater. At the beginning of World War II, she was a director in the Den Nationale Scene in Bergen and then worked in Det nye teater and at Nationaltheatret in Oslo and Rogaland Teater on in Stavanger. From 1955 to 1962 she was mainly active on Nationaltheatret where they staged as a theater director nine different performances. Their successful performance in 1959 was the play Det lykkelige valg based on a story of the Norwegian writer Nils Kjær in Nationaltheatret and in the Den Nationale Scene.
Aud Egede -Nissen was married to the actors George Alexander and Paul Richter. Her son Georg Richter from the first marriage to George Alexander was also an actor and film producer. Even her four younger sisters and two younger brothers worked as an actor: Ada Kramm (also Ada van Ehlers; 1899-1981 ), Gerd Egede -Nissen ( 1895-1988 ), Stig Egede -Nissen ( 1907-1988 ), Oscar Egede -Nissen (1903-1976), Gøril Havrevold (1914-1992) and Lill Egede -Nissen ( 1909-1962 ).