Ingrid Luterkort

Ingrid Luterkort (born 28 June 1910 in Lund; † 3 August, 2011 Hässelby, Stockholm ), as Carola Ingrid Margareta Eklundh, was a Swedish actress, director and drama director.

Life

Luterkort was born as Carol Ingrid Margareta Eklundh in the southern Swedish city of Lund University. They first trained as a church musician and cantor. She graduated from 1932 to 1934 as an actor training at the Drama Tens elevskola, the acting school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre ( Dramaten ) in Stockholm; where she studied in the same class together with Ingrid Bergman, Gunnar Björn beach, Irma Christenson and Signe Hasso.

She made her stage debut, under the name Ingrid Eklundh, 1933 at Dramatan in the romantic verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac. Other roles she had there among other things in the comedy The Florentine Hat by Eugène Labiche (1934 ) and the comedy The Women of Clare Boothe Luce (1938). Luterkorts career as a theater actress took a long time. Most recently, she was in 2006, at the age of 95 years, on the stage of Dramatan; she played the role of Panope in Trägödie Phaedra by Jean Racine. It is considered the oldest actress who ever was in Sweden on a theater stage.

From 1940 Luterkort also worked as a theater director; she was one of the first female directors in Sweden at all. Her first directorial work she created at the Playwrights Center of the royal theater in Stockholm. 1944/1945 and 1950 to 1953 she worked as a director at the municipal theater of Helsingborg. From 1953 to 1960 she was director at the Municipal Theatre in Norrköping - Linköping; in Nörrköping she was also head of the drama school of the local theater. Later, they also staged at Riksteatern.

Luterkort also worked as a film actress since the late 1930s; her film roles were, in comparison to her theater work, but always in the background. After a few minor roles she played the role of the wife Brita in the Swedish family drama Barney från Frostmofjället (1945 ). A late age role would they when Miss ( Fröken ) in the comedy class Fest ( 2002) by Måns Herngren.

Since the 1990s, they also played a few roles in television series; she played Agnes, the mother of the architect and builder in the TV series Tre kärlekar ( 1989, 1991). In 2007 she was in the episode Deadly Art (The Japanska Shungamålningen ) in the Swedish detective series Kommissar Beck - The new cases.

From 1963 to 1964 she was director and administrative director of the acting school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre; then it stood from 1965 to 1969 as Director and Vice - Rector also the successor institution, the newly formed National Theatre Academy ( Statens scenskola / Teaterhögskolan ) ago. From 1970 to 1977 she taught theater studies at the University of Stockholm. Luterkort also worked as a theater researcher; She published under the title Om strength, mr Molander! a history of the Swedish theater from the beginnings (from 1700) to the present.

When Sveriges Radio they belonged for many years to the speakers on the program Dagens dikt in which every day a poem was recited. At the age of 100 years Luterkort was the oldest officer who ever recited a poem in this series in June 2010.

Private

Luterkort was married twice. In 1935 she married the Swedish artist and sculptor Einar Luterkort; the marriage was divorced in 1952. From 1952 she was married until his death with the director Bengt Segerstedt ( 1911-1986 ). Luterkort died at the age of 101 years in the early hours of August 3, 2011; they had previously been stationary for several days in a hospital. The cause of death natural reasons were given.

Filmography (selection)

Publication

• Ingrid Luterkort: "Om strength, mr Molander! " Kungliga Dramatiska teaterns elevskola 1787-1964. Stockholmia, Stockholm 1998, ISBN 91-7031-085-8 ( Monografier utgivna Stockholms stad av 135).