Petter Stenborg


Petter Stenborg was a Swedish actor and theater director who played an important role of the continuation of the native speaking theater in Sweden. He is regarded as one of the greatest pioneers in the theatrehistory of his country during the period of exile for the nativelanguage theatre in the reign of king Adolf Frederick of Sweden, he kept the Swedishspeaking theatre alive during the 1750s and 1760s, and thus was the link between the closure of the first Swedish theatre in Bollhuset in 1753, and the opening of the first lasting theatreopera in 1773.

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