Erik Wilhelm Djurström née Strandberg (22 February 1787, Stockholm
â€" 17 September 1841, Jönköping) was a Swedish stage actor. He was
the director of the travelling Djurström theater company, which was
one of the most well known in the first half of the 19th-century.Erik
Djurström was the son of the lawspeaker Erik Vilhelm Strandberg, and
given a good education. In 1807, he was engaged as an actor at the
Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm, upon which he took the name
Djurström. After his debut he toured Sweden as a member of the
theater company of Fredrik Wilhelm Ståhlberg, and from 1819 his
Stålberg's widow Fredrika Gustafva Ståhlberg.Upon the death of his
employer director Fredrika Gustafva Ståhlberg in 1824, he took over
the theater company as its director. The Djurström theater company
was regarded as the perhaps most prestigious of the travelling
theaters in Sweden of its time, and held a high artistic standard
compared to the others in the yes of several contemporary critics.
Erik Djurström was described as an intelligent artist with refined
manner and good taste who translated many foreign plays to Swedish and
introduced them on the Swedish stage, and has been referred to as the
most noted theater director in Sweden of his time.He was described as
passionate but tolerant and was well liked as an employer for not
interfering in his actors private lives - as an example if his
tolerance it was noted that he did not interfere in the fact that his
lead female singer Angelique Magito lived with and had children with
one of the actors without being married to him, something which was
not a given thing during this epoch. He was also given unusual respect
in a time when the acting profession had a low social status: it was
said that every time his theater company arrived to a town, he was
invited to dine with professors and officials and held receptions
behind the stage.
â€" 17 September 1841, Jönköping) was a Swedish stage actor. He was
the director of the travelling Djurström theater company, which was
one of the most well known in the first half of the 19th-century.Erik
Djurström was the son of the lawspeaker Erik Vilhelm Strandberg, and
given a good education. In 1807, he was engaged as an actor at the
Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm, upon which he took the name
Djurström. After his debut he toured Sweden as a member of the
theater company of Fredrik Wilhelm Ståhlberg, and from 1819 his
Stålberg's widow Fredrika Gustafva Ståhlberg.Upon the death of his
employer director Fredrika Gustafva Ståhlberg in 1824, he took over
the theater company as its director. The Djurström theater company
was regarded as the perhaps most prestigious of the travelling
theaters in Sweden of its time, and held a high artistic standard
compared to the others in the yes of several contemporary critics.
Erik Djurström was described as an intelligent artist with refined
manner and good taste who translated many foreign plays to Swedish and
introduced them on the Swedish stage, and has been referred to as the
most noted theater director in Sweden of his time.He was described as
passionate but tolerant and was well liked as an employer for not
interfering in his actors private lives - as an example if his
tolerance it was noted that he did not interfere in the fact that his
lead female singer Angelique Magito lived with and had children with
one of the actors without being married to him, something which was
not a given thing during this epoch. He was also given unusual respect
in a time when the acting profession had a low social status: it was
said that every time his theater company arrived to a town, he was
invited to dine with professors and officials and held receptions
behind the stage.
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