Jeanette Granberg

Jeanette (Johanna Charlotta) Granberg, as married "Stjernström", as a pseudonym "Georges Malméen", (1825-1857), was a Swedish writer, a playwright, a feminist and a translator, who wrote plays for mainly the theatre Mindre teatern in Stockholm in the mid 19th century. She was praiced as a great dramatic by her contemporarys.

Biography

Jeanette was born child of the writer and actor Per Adolf Granberg and was from 1849 and forwards active as a translator and a writer of plays for the theatre. She debuted with the play "Filantropen" in 1847 and several of her plays were performed in the 1850-51 season.

Among her more known plays where "Läsarepresten", a play in four acts, "Fyra dagar af konung Gustaf III:s lefnad", a historical play in four acts, and "Tidningsskrifvaren", a play in five acts, all of which where performed in the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. She did not only write alone, but also together with her sister, Louise Granberg. Both sibblings used male psedonyms, Jeanette wrote under the name "Georges Malméen". She made great successes with her plays in 1855 and 1857.

She married the actor Edvard Stjernström, founder of the Swedish Theatre (Stockholm), in 1854, and died three years after. After her death, her husband married her sister; Louise Granberg, the sister of Jeanette, continued as a plawright and eventually became director of the Swedish Theatre. Jeanette Granberg was considered a great dramatic talent and excpected to become one of the greatest within her profession, and her death before the age of thirty two was seen as a great loss for her profession.

See also

* Alfhild Agrell
* Anne Charlotte Leffler

References

* Alf Henriksson, "Fram till Nybroplan". swe icon
* http://runeberg.org/sqvinnor/0173.html swe icon
* http://runeberg.org/nfcf/0749.html swe icon
* Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare. Lund: Signum 1990. (ISBN 91-87896-03-6) swe icon
* http://www.muslib.se/sma/musikmuseet/MMPjeser.html swe icon
* Georg Nordensvan, "Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar, Andra bandet, 1842-1918", swe icon.