Robert Storm Petersen
Robert Storm Petersen, pseudonym Storm P ( * September 19, 1882, † March 6, 1949 ) was a Danish painter, cartoonist, caricaturist, emcee, comedian and actor.
Life
Storm Petersen first completed a butcher apprenticeship with his father. From 1898 to 1900 he took lessons from the painter Waldemar Neiiendam. In 1901 he went as a sailor to England and Norway. From 1902 to 1905 and 1910 to 1914, he worked as a draftsman for the Ekstrabladet. He also took acting classes with William Pio and debuted in 1903 as an actor at the Casino Teatret, where he was engaged until 1907. From 1907 to 1909 he was an actor on Dagmarteatret.
1906 and 1910 he went on study trips to Paris, where he attended small cabarets and broken lives and prostitutes painted. In 1913 he debuted as a vaudeville artist and caricaturist in the Cirkus theater. He also appeared in other cabarets on, inter alia, 1914-1918 in Anna Norrie Edderkoppen. As a cartoonist for the Berlingske Tidene he created the character of Peter Vimmelskraft. As a comedian, he also appeared in Norway, Sweden and Germany (Berlin) and 1919-20 took part in a trip to the U.S., where he attended the American film studios.
From 1917 turned Storm Petersen cartoons and founded his own film company, the animated films such as De tre små mænd produced above Nummermanden. As a comedian, he joined 1921-1926 in the candy kidneys and until 1930 with the Ensemble Co - optimisterne on. With Christian Arhoff he formed the duo Storm og silence. From 1926 to 1930 he also directed the cabaret in the establishment Lorry.
In 1924 he first appeared on the Det Kongelige Teater, where he was engaged from 1930 to 1933. Here he provided the libretto for the ballet the composer gasoline Knudåge Riisager and the dancer Elna Jørgen -Jensen. Storm Petersen came early in 1906 for the first time in a silent film production as an actor and worked in the sequence occasionally as a decorative painter. Overall, he played in more than thirty silent films and sound films with two.
After he had retired from public appearances in 1933, he worked primarily as a cartoonist. In addition to the popular series Peter og Ping, which appeared in the Berlingske since 1922, he also published during the occupation Dagbogsblade and the under -celled Mand After his death, more than 30,000 drawings were found that he had never published during his lifetime. In 1977, the Storm P. Museum was opened in Frederiksberg Runddel.