Peter Lindahl
Peter Lindahl (1712 in Karlskrona – 19 December 1792 in Ånstad, Örebro), was a Swedish stage actor and theatre director. He belonged to the most known of the pioneer generation of actors at the first Swedish theatre.
Lindahl's father was a secretary, as well as hemself before he became an actor. In 1737, he participated in the first Swedish original play to be performed at the first Swedish theatre in Bollhuset in Stockholm, "Den Svenska Sprätthöken" by Carl Gyllenborg, in the part of Måns. As such, he was also the first Swedish actor known by name to have performed a par tin a different gender, as the male Måns reveals in the play that he is actually as woman, Brita, dressed as a man. In 1740–54, he was one of the three directors in the board of directors at the theatre with Charles Langlois and Johan Palmberg. He was regarded as a comedian star and the theatre's main Harlequin - interpretator and acted in plays by Molière, Voltaire and Corneille. In 1754, the Swedish theatre was evicted from the localites of bollhuset b and replaced with the French Du Londel Troupe. Lindahl formed his own travelling theatre, the likely first Swedish language travelling troupe, in companionship with Johan Bergholtz.
He married his colleague Margareta Maria Fabritz in 1742. His theatre troupe was taken over by his son-in-law Carl Seuerling in 1768, and later by his daughter, Margareta Seuerling. He and his spouse continued to play in their son-in-laws theatre until the 1780s.
References
- Svensk Uppslagsbok (Swedish dictionary) 1947 edition
- Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon
- Ingvar Andersson: Gustavianskt (The Gustavian age)
- Tryggve Byström: Svenska komedien 1737-1754, Centraltryckeriet AB, Borås 1981. ISBN 91-1-813241-3.
