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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
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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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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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