Hedvig Lovisa Charlotta Deland (née de Broen; 7 February 1807 – 28 May 1864), was a Swedish stage actress. Charlotta de Broen was born in Stockholm to an acting family and connected to many well-known figures within the theater world, which gave her valuable contacts during her own career. She was the daughter of the actors

Isaac de Broen Isaac de Broen (1783–1814), was a Swedish stage actor and theatre manager. He was the son of Abraham de Broen and Maria Elisabet de Broen and the brother of Debora Aurora de Broen. He married the actor and theatre director Christina Margareta ...

and

Christina Margareta Cederberg Christina Margareta Cederberg (1786–1858), was a Swedish stage actor and theatre manager. She was the daughter of Carl Magnus Cederberg and Rebecca Momma and the sister of the actor Catharina Cederberg. She married the actor and theatre direct ...

, managers of the ''

Djurgårdsteatern Djurgårdsteatern ( Swedish for "Djurgården Theatre"), was an historical Swedish theatre, active at Djurgården in Stockholm between 1801 and 1929 (from 1863 in a new building). It was the only theatre in Stockholm outside the royal theatres ...

'', and stepdaughter of the theatre director Christoffer Svanberg, who was the leader of his own travelling theatre company. She was also the niece of

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, who took over the ''Djurgårdsteatern'' after her mother. Charlotta Deland was educated in a fashionable girls' school. She made her debut in the travelling theatre company of her stepfather Christoffer Svanberg in 1831. She married her colleague

Pierre Deland Pierre Joseph Deland (13 December 1805 – 13 November 1862) was a Swedish stage actor and theatre director. He was the director of the Deland Theater Company in 1833-1861, a travelling theater famous in both Sweden and Finland, and as such an in ...

the same year, and in 1833, he took over the company, where she was active until 1861. She was a leading lady of the Deland theatre company, which was among the most successful in Sweden and Finland outside of the capital of Stockholm during most of its existence. The company regularly toured between the towns of Sweden (where theatres outside the capital consisted of travelling companies) as well as in Finland (where all theatres at the time consisted of travelling Swedish theatre companies), and also performed in the ''

'' of Stockholm during the summer. Charlotta Deland was described as an acknowledged and well respected actress and frequently performed main parts within both tragedy and comedy, but was given best critique for her roles as fashionable ladies within the popular genre of salon comedies. It was said of her: :"As an actress she was in possession of an unusually good judgement, a quick mind, the gentility of an accomplished lady and a pleasing figure, which altogheter made her an excellent acquisition to especially the finer comedy."
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' Her most acclaimed role was evidently the role of Ceasarine in ''Kotteriet'' ('Cottery') by

Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of man ...

. In 1861, the theater company was dissolved and she, her husband and their daughter

Betty Deland Hedvig Kristina Elisabeth "Betty" Deland (14 November 1831 in Örebro – 1 April 1882 in Stockholm) was a Swedish stage actress. She was a principal of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy and belong to the elite of Swedish 19th-century actors. ...

was engaged at the

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in Stockholm. Deland died in Stockholm.

References

* Ingeborg Nordin Hennel: Mod och Försakelse. Livs- och yrkesbetingelser för Konglig Theaterns skådespelerskor 1813–1863. Stockholm: Gidlunds (1997) . {{DEFAULTSORT:Deland, Charlotta 1807 births 1864 deaths 19th-century Swedish actresses Swedish stage actresses Actresses from Stockholm