Ebba Johanna Bergman Lindkvist, also Lindqvist, (1882â€"1942) was a
Swedish actress and film director. In 1910 she directed the short
drama, Värmländingarna, which premièred in Sweden on 27 October
1910. As a result, she is considered the first woman to have become a
film director in Sweden, creating her first film the year before Anna
Hofman-Uddgren's Stockholmsfrestelser was premièred on 27 April
1911.Born on 10 March 1882 in Stockholm, Ebba Johanna Bergman was the
daughter of Emma Augusta Charlotta, née Brobeck, and Gustaf Edvard
Bergman. The second of four children, she studied song and drama with
the opera singer Bertha Tammelin (1836â€"1915) and the actor Emil
Hillberg (1852â€"1929). She went on to work as an actress in both
travelling and municipal theatres. In May 1907, she married Victor
Lindkvist with whom she opened a singing and drama school in Malmö in
1910.In October 1910, Lindkvist's version of Fredrik August Dahlgren's
play Värmlänningarna´was released, an earlier version by Carl
Engdahl having been premièred in January the same year. She therefore
preceded Anna Hofman-Uddgren as Sweden's first female director, even
if her film was technically less professional than Hofman-Uddgren's.
Lindkvist herself performed in the film.Suffering from pneumonia, Ebba
Lindkvist died on 5 June 1942 at a clinic in Växjö in the south of
Sweden.
Swedish actress and film director. In 1910 she directed the short
drama, Värmländingarna, which premièred in Sweden on 27 October
1910. As a result, she is considered the first woman to have become a
film director in Sweden, creating her first film the year before Anna
Hofman-Uddgren's Stockholmsfrestelser was premièred on 27 April
1911.Born on 10 March 1882 in Stockholm, Ebba Johanna Bergman was the
daughter of Emma Augusta Charlotta, née Brobeck, and Gustaf Edvard
Bergman. The second of four children, she studied song and drama with
the opera singer Bertha Tammelin (1836â€"1915) and the actor Emil
Hillberg (1852â€"1929). She went on to work as an actress in both
travelling and municipal theatres. In May 1907, she married Victor
Lindkvist with whom she opened a singing and drama school in Malmö in
1910.In October 1910, Lindkvist's version of Fredrik August Dahlgren's
play Värmlänningarna´was released, an earlier version by Carl
Engdahl having been premièred in January the same year. She therefore
preceded Anna Hofman-Uddgren as Sweden's first female director, even
if her film was technically less professional than Hofman-Uddgren's.
Lindkvist herself performed in the film.Suffering from pneumonia, Ebba
Lindkvist died on 5 June 1942 at a clinic in Växjö in the south of
Sweden.
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