Ada Egede-Nissen Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Daughter of famous Norwegian politician, Adam Egede-Nissen. Stage debut in 1916, thereafter a silent movie career in Germany until 1920. There she started a production company together with her two older sisters: Aud Richter and Gerd Grieg. She was very popular in her own series of crime dramas, under the name "Ada Van Ehlers". Later she became a ...
After over six decades on stage, she went into semi-retirement and occasionally made appearances on Norwegian television.
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At age 72 she appeared in the role of Aunt Julie in Hedda Gabler on a tour of Japan.
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In 1920 she married German violinist Hugo Kramm and began using her married name as a professional moniker and the young newly-weds returned to Norway.
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Ada Kramm died in 1981 in Oslo, Norway and was buried in the city's Vestre gravlund cemetery.
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In 1917, Kramm accompanied her two older sisters Aud and Gerd to Berlin, Germany where the three young women opened a small film production and distribution company called the Egede-Nissen Film Company. The trio used the studio to promote themselves in film roles directed by George Alexander from 1917 until 1920.
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From 1921 until 1924 Kramm appeared at the Bergen and Den Nationale Scene.
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When she was eleven years old, the family moved to Stavanger, where she began studying at the Stavanger Faste Scene (Stavanger Fixed Scene) theatre.
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Kramm spent several decades on Norwegian stages in productions by Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller.
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After her husband joined the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1924 they moved to Oslo and she worked at Det Nye Teater (The New Theatre) from 1925 until 1928, the Centralteatret (Central Theatre) from 1928 to 1934 and later at the Nationaltheatret (National Theatre).
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She appeared in the 1928 Norwegian-German co production of Schneeschuhbanditen opposite her sister Aud Egede-Nissen.
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Two brothers and four sisters were also actors: Aud Richter, Gerd Grieg ,Oscar Egede-Nissen, Stig Egede-Nissen, Lill Egede-Nissen and Gøril Havrevold. One daughter, Ilse Kramm, is an actress, as well.