Martin Nürenbach

Martin Nürenbach
Born	unknown Germany
Died	1780 Tavastia, Sweden

Martin Nürenbach, or Nurembach (unknown – 1780), was a German acrobat, actor, dancer, tight-rope-dancer and theatre director, active in Sweden, Norway and Finland. He is known as the founder of the first theatre in Norway, which closed after one season.

Nürenbach was the son-in-law of the theatre director-couple Carl Gottfried Seuerling and Margareta Seuerling and brother-in-law of Charlotta Seuerling. He is listed as a member in the Stenborg Troupe in a passport to Uppsala in 1767, and 1767–68 as a member of the Seuerling troupe. He was then active as "dancing master of the city" in Gothenburg, before he performed and instructed pupils in acrobatics and dance in companionship with "The Worldfamous Madame Stuart" from Scotland in Oslo in Norway in July 1770. In the end of 1770, he was a member of a Norwegian theatre troupe. In 1771, he was given permission to open the first theatre in Oslo, and during the 1771–1772 season, he was director for the first theatre house to offer plays in Norwegian by Norwegian actors in Norway. Previously, the Norwegian theatre troupes all played as travelling theatres. Unfortunately, the names of thes actors are unknown. This theatre closed down in 1772 after only one season, when the theatre-ban from 1738 was reintroduced in Norway, but has its place in the history of Norway as its first theatre, and the act for which Nürenbach is famous. In 1780, the Amateur Theatre Det Dramatiske Selskap replaced it, but Oslo and Norway had to wait for a permanent theatre until 1826 when the first version of the Christiania Theatre (first under a different name) was founded by Johan Peter Strömberg.

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