Ernst Bruun Olsen

Danish actor and playwright (b. 1923 - d. 2011). Having achieved his university matriculation certificate he went on to teacher training college, but pursued studies in drawing and finally in 1946 gained entrance to the Theatre School at Odense. From 1947-50 he acted several times and this is how he developed his interest for a life in the theatre. In 1950 he moved to Copenhagen, where he continued his acting career with a touring theatre. Not until 1957 did he finish his career as an actor in order to writing plays himself. However he kept in touch with the stage in as much as he produced most of his own plays. He never saw himself as a writer, but as a man of the theatre. He is known to have said that he did not see the lines as he wrote them, but he could hear the lines and this fact charactarizes his lines. Ernst Bruun Olsen wrote plays for the stage, the radio and television. The turning-point in his career was the play “TEENAGERLOVE”. Up till then he was best known for his plays for radio.