Johanne Voss


Johanne Voss was a Norwegian actress from Bergen.

Family

Johanne Voss was the daughter of the carpenter Peter Paulsen and Johanne Jørgensen, and the sister of the actress Anna Paulsen. On October 24, 1891 she married the actor Olav Voss in Bergen.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1883, Voss debuted on April 12, 1887 at her hometown theater, the National Theater, as Pauline Protat in the play L'Héritage de Monsieur Plumet by Théodore Barrière and Fritz Holst. She was engaged with this theater until about 1893.
Later she accompanied her husband Olav Voss to the theater stages in Kristiania. She was initially engaged at the Carl Johan Theater until it went bankrupt in 1895. She then toured with the Swedish theater director August Lindberg's company in Sweden and Norway for two years, after which she performed at the Central Theater and the Christiania Theater. In 1898 she performed in Trondheim with Johan Fahlstrøm's troupe from the Central Theater.