20 Facts About Elise Hwasser

Ebba Charlotta Elise Hwasser nee Jakobsson was a Swedish stage actress.

Elise Hwasser was an elite actor and has been referred to as the leading lady of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in the mid 19th-century.

Elise Hwasser was enrolled as a student at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in 1848.

Elise Hwasser was given a position as actress student of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1849 and employed as an actress in 1850, initially as a replacement for Aurora Strandberg.

Elise Hwasser is the only dramatic actor worth seeing at present.

Elise Hwasser was regarded to be the first on the royal stage capable of truly filling the place of stage actress Emilie Hogqvist in the so-called ingenue and heroine parts, but was progressively given main roles in realistic drama, and her career and development from romantic ingenue to character actress has been said to illustrate the transfer of romanticism to realism which occurred in the Swedish theater stage during her years as the leading elite actress of the Royal theater.

Elise Hwasser's way of acting was described as versatile, and she was praised by the critics as an artist who could play any part, which was a new invention at that time, as actors had until that time had often only kept to their specific genre of roles and not been expected to be able to play different kinds of characters.

Elise Hwasser played Ophelia, Juliet, Desdemona, Mary Stuart and Cleopatra with success, but her most acclaimed roles were as characters in popular novels, such as Jane Eyre.

Elise Hwasser managed to play Nora convincingly in Ibsen's A Doll's House as late as 1881, when she had reached the age of fifty, and was regarded as perhaps the most noted Ibsen actor of the royal stage.

Elise Hwasser was popular in so called breeches roles: her voice was described as very deep and suitable for such parts.

In 1865, Elise Hwasser became the first woman to be given the Litteris et Artibus.

Elise Hwasser was reportedly interested in the contemporary Women's movement and in how the roles she performed in the plays she participated in portrayed the lives and circumstances of women.

Elise Hwasser was particularly interested in Ibsen in that regard.

At one point, Elise Hwasser had a brief affair with the Crown Prince, the future Charles XV of Sweden.

In parallel, Elise Hwasser was given more main roles within the productions of the theater, which resulted in her breakthrough.

However, as the ability of Elise Hwasser was evident, the matter soon died out.

Elise Hwasser was given main roles because of her own talent for many years after the crown prince had acquired a new lover and her spouse was no longer director.

Privately, the Elise Hwasser couple entertained a large social circle, not only in artistic circles, but socialized in the intimate and informal intimate circle of King Charles XV, especially during the summer vacations of the royal court at Ulriksdal Palace.

Elise Hwasser was the mother of the actress Anna Lisa Hwasser-Engelbrecht.

Elise Hwasser died in her villa Vastrat in Fiskebackskil in 1894.