Karen Marie Fougner


Karen Marie Fougner was a Norwegian actress.

Family

Karen Marie Fougner was born in Bergen, the daughter of the hat-maker and later proprietor Johan Eilert Fougner of the prominent Fougner family, and Alida Cathrine Brunfeldt. On July 12, 1863, she married the actor Jacob Prom in Bergen. Following the death of her first husband, on October 16, 1867, she married Samuel Frederik Bætzmann in Christiania. By her first marriage she became the mother of the actress Ellen Prom, and by her second marriage the mother of the journalist, actor, sculptor, and writer Kitty Wentzel.

Life and work

Fougner debuted on December 2, 1860, at the Norwegian Theater in her home town of Bergen in the title role of the romantic comedy Tonietta by Henrik Hertz. This was followed by her performance of Margit in Henrik Ibsen's The Feast at Solhaug.
From 1863 to 1865, she was engaged at the Norwegian Theater in Trondheim together with her husband Jacob Prom.
Fougner debuted at the Christiania Theater on May 17, 1866, when she reprised the role of Margit in The Feast at Solhaug. She was engaged at that theater until she remarried in 1867. That fall she also had several performances in Bergen.
In 1877 she published the play Der skal Skabet staa.

Selected roles

Works

  • 1877: Der skal Skabet staa, comedy in two acts