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than the theater plays, which is why dance performances were mixed with the plays. Aside from Nürenbach himself, nothing is known about the members of his cast, other than that they were said to have been
Norwegians performing in the Danish language. Nürenbach's wife Anna Katarina Rancke is not mentioned at all during their stay in Norway (though it is known that she was present) and it is unknown if she performed.
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in companionship with the actor
Beckman. From 1774 to 1780, Nürenbach-Beckman would have been the only travelling theater company active in Finland, but not much information is known of their activity. In 1781, Nürenbach's colleague Beckman returned to Stockholm where he sued Nürenbach for having
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Nürenbach later stated (1769) that he was the "stepson" of Carl
Seuerling, but this statement is unclear and is familial relation to Seuerling is unconfirmed. If the identification of stepson is to be taken literarally, he could have been the son of Carl Seuerling's first wife Maria Heidensköld in
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stage actors. In
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Nürenbach was active as a dance instructor and advertised extensively and offered dance lessons in the cities he passed on his tours, which was evidently an important side income. He was at one point active as the "city dancing master" in
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in 1767, and as a member of the
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her previous marriage, but this is unconfirmed. A woman by the name of
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broken their contract by abandoning him and taken all their actors with him: however, the court protocol simply stated that Nürenbach was "No longer present in the
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Where highbrow taste met itinerant dance in eighteenth century Scandinavia: The dance entrepreneur Martin Nürenbach
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Birger Schöldström, Seuerling och hans "comædietroupp". Ett blad ur svenska landsortsteaterns historia, 1889
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