Ludovica Levy Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Ludovica Levy Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Ludovica Magdalena Marie Levy (née Dysten, from 1896 to 1906

Levy-Lavik) (7 September 1856 â€" 20 October 1922) was a Danish

actress, theatre director and theatre critic. She toured with theatres

in Denmark and Norway, and worked as instructor for Den Nationale

Scene in Bergen. She chaired the theatre Sekondteatret in Kristiania

from 1899 to 1901, together with her husband Dore Lavik. She founded

the touring theatre Nationalturneen in 1907, and toured in Norway with

this theatre until 1912.Ludovica Levy was born in Nakskov as the

daughter of shoemaker Lars Henrik Dysten and Maria Magdalene Specht.

She was married to actor and theatre director Bernhard Levy from 1873,

and to actor Dore Lavik from 1896 to 1906. She died in Copenhagen in

1922.Growing up in Lolland, she started her acting career as a child

actress at the Copenhagen theatre Frederiksberg Teater. From 1871 she

performed at Casino Teater in Copenhagen, and also for touring

theatres. She visited Norway in 1872 with August Rasmussen's ensemble.

The ensemble played at the comedy house in Bergen from September 1872.

From 1877 she toured with her husband Bernhard Levy's theatre. The

couple joined Olaus Olsen's theatre company from 1880 to 1883, played

at the Copenhagen theatre Dagmarteatret, and then toured in Norway

with their own ensemble Det Levyske Theaterpersonale until 1890. In

1889 she visited Den Nationale Scene in Bergen, with guest

performances in the plays Kameliadamen, Prinsessen af Bagdad and Alle

mulige Roller. She worked for the theatre Casino in Copenhagen from

1890 to 1891, and from 1892 for travelling theatres. From 1895 she was

appointed as actress and instructor at the Bergen theatre Den

Nationale Scene. In Bergen she met her second husband, Dore Lavik,

whom she married in 1896. The couple moved to Kristiania in 1899,

where they founded the theatre Sekondteatret. In 1899 she staged

Wied's satyr play Erotikk, which became very popular and was played

over hundred times, the highest number for any performance in Norway

in a single season until then. Hauk Aabel had his breakthrough as

actor in this play, as the character "Snild". Secondteatret had to

close in 1901 after bankruptcy.She was later a theatre critic for the

women's magazine Urd. She founded the touring theater Nationalturneen

in 1907, and toured with this theatre until 1912, as director and

occasionally actress. From 1914 to 1919 she was a theatre critic for

the newspaper Ørebladet. In 1922 she settled in Copenhagen, where she

died the same year.
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