Dabrowska Maria 6.10.1889 - 19.5.1965
poljska pisateljica, avtorica romana Noči in dnevi (1932-34), ki je obsežna kronika družine v letih pred svetovno vojno.

Polish writer, author of the roman-fleuve Noce i dnie (Nights and Days, 1932-34), a vast family chronicle from the years preceding World War.

 
             PL - 1984

  
          RU - 499

Dafovska Ekaterina 28.11.1975 -
Olimpijska zmagovalka na OI 1998 v Naganu v biatlonu na 15 km. 45 krat se je uvrstila med 25 najboljših v svetovnem pokalu.

She won gold medail on the women's 15 km individual race at the biathlon in OG 1998 Nagano. 45 times ranked among first 25 in World Cup.

  
              BG - 4334

Dahlgren Eva 9.6.1960 -
je začela igrati kitaro kot najstnica. Odkril jo je Bruno Glenmark, ko je igrala na televiziji v oddaji Sveriges Magasin. Pomagal ji je pri njenem prvem albumu Finns det någon som bryr sig om, leta 1978. Leta 1980 je izdala album Eva Dahlgren, kjer kritizira in razlaga ženska čustva in probleme, ki jih imajo s prikazovanjem teh čustev drugim.

She started to play the guitar when she was a teenager. Bruno Glenmark discovered her when she performed at the TV-program called Sveriges Magasin. The result was her debut album Finns det någon som bryr sig om, released in 1978 and produced by Bruno and Anders Glenmark. In 1980 she released the album Eva Dahlgren, an album where she critisises and explains women's feelings and the problem they have when wanting to show these feelings to another person.

Dalida 17.1.1933 - 3.5.1987
Yolanda Christina Gigliotti, bolj znana pod umetniškim imenom Dalida, se je rodila italijanski staršem v Kairu. Njen oče je bil operni violinist in Dalida je že v zgodnji mladosti obiskovala pevske vaje, Leta 1954 se je po zmagi na tekmovanju za miss Egipta odpravila v Pariz, da bi uresničila otroške sanje in postala igralka. Toda namesto igralka je postala pevka. Sijajna pevska kariera pa ni bila brez senčnih plati. Dalida je v svojem življenju ljubila tri moške in vsi so naredili samomor. Tudi ona si je nazadnje sodila sama. V svoji karieri je posnela 500 francoskih pesmi, 200 je bilo prevedenih v italijanščino, 300 pa v druge jezike. Dobila je 55 zlatih plošč in kot prva pevka tudi diamantno ploščo.

Singer and actress Yolanda Christina Gigliotti was born in Egypt to Italian parents. In 1954 she was elected Miss Egypt, and in 1955 she played opposite Omar Sharif as a double for Joan Collins in a film that was released as The Land of the Pharaohs. In 1956 she moved to France and under the stage name "Dalida" she began performing in music halls and cabarets. In 1964 she received a platinum record for having sold over 10 million records becoming the first woman to accomplish this. In 1966 she fell in love with Italian singer Luigi Tenco, the couple were due to have been married in April 1967, but in January Tenco commited suicide. Unable to deal with grief, Dalida tried to kill herself, but was rescued. She had many more hits and toured the world, until in 1986 she played the leading part in the Frans-Egyptian movie Le Sixième Jour. In 1987 she died as a result of an overdose of sleeping pills leaving a suicide note that said: "Life has become unbearable ... forgive me."

 
        F - 3534

DANIELSON-GAMBOGI Elin 3.9.1876 - 31.12.1919
je finska slikarka. Slikati se je učila v Helsinkih na Finski umetniški šoli. V letih 1878-80 je študirala privatno pri Adolf von Becker, v letih 1883-85 pa v Parizu na Académie Colarossi. Ustvarjala je v Parizu Italiji in Finski.      

Elin Kleopatra Danielson was born in Noormarkku. In 1876, she moved to Helsinki to enroll in the Finnish Art Society drawing school. From 1878-80 she studied in Adolf von Becker's private academy; from 1883-85 at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. In 1885, she returned to Finland for a year, but returned back to Paris in 1888. In 1895, she visited Italy, where she settled permanently in 1898. She participated in shows in both Finland and Italy until her death.

        
                               Aland 219-222

DarcLee Hariclea 10.6.1860 - 12 .1.1939
Je bila slavna romunska sopranistka. Debitirala je v Parizu leta 1888 kot Marguerita v Goudonovem Faustu. Slavna pa je postala leta 1889, ko je namesto Adeline Patti, pela Julijo v Gounodovem Romeu in Juliji. Višek kariere je doživela v letih od 1890 do 1900 v Italiji.

Opera singer Hariclea Darclée was a celebrated Romanian soprano. She made her debut in Paris in 1888 as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust and shot to fame in 1889, when she replaced  Adelina Patti as Juliette in Gounod's Romeo at Juliette. The highlights of her career in Italy from 1890 on included Odalea in Gomes's Condor at La Scala in Milan in 1891, Catalani's La Wally at the same theater in 1892, and the title roles in Mascagni's Iris and Puccini's Tosca, both at Teatro Costanzi in Rome in 1899 and 1900, respectively.

  
       RO - 2233

David-Neel Alexandra 24.10.1868 - 8.9.1969
francoska popotnica in raziskovalka je bila prva Evropejka, ki je obiskala prepovedano mesto Lhasa v Tibetu. Bila je študentka vzhodnjaške filozofije in religij. Leta 1891 je prvič obiskala Azijo (Indija, Indokina), leta 1911 pa drugič (Indija, Sikim).  Od novembra 1914 do avgusta 1916 je živela kot puščavnik v Himalaji. Študirala je tibetanski jezik in religijo. Leta 1923 se je preoblečena v beračico peš odpravila v Lasho, kjer je ostala dva meseca. Nato se je vrnila v Pariz. O svojih potovanjih je napisala številne knjige med njimi My Journey to Lhasa (1927) in Magic and Mystery in Tibet (1938).

French traveler and explorer Alexandra David-Neel, was the first European woman to enter the forbidden city of Lhasa in Tibet. A student of Eastern philosophy and religions, she made her first visit to Asia (India and Indochina) in 1891 and in 1911 embarked on a second, extended sojourn in Asia, starting in India and Sikkim. From November 1914 to August 1916 she lived as a hermit in the Himalayas, studying the Tibetan language and religion. After a tour of Japan and Korea she continued her studies at the remote Tibetan monastery of Kum Bum. In 1923, David-Neel set out on her expedition to Lhasa; she made the four-month journey on foot, disguised as an old Tibetan beggar woman, and remained there two months. After her return to France in 1925, she recounted her travels in a number of books, including My Journey to Lhasa (1927) and Magic and Mystery in Tibet (1938).

 
       F - 3484

Deken Aagje 10.12.1741 - 14.11.1804
nizozemska pisateljica, v sodelovanju z Betje Wolff je leta 1782 napisala prvi nizozemski roman Zgodovina gospodične Sare Burgerhart.

Agatha Deken   writer and collaborator with Betje Wolff on the first Dutch novel, De historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart, (1782; The History of Miss Sara Burgerhart).

  
       NL - 394

Delaunay Sonia 14.11.1885 - 5.12.1979
Rodila se je v Ukrajini kot Sarah Stern. Študirala je v Karlsruhe in Parizu. Leta 1905 se je poročila s francoskim slikarjem Robertom Delaunayem. Je prva slikarka, ki še za časa svojega življenja razstavljala leta 1964 v Louvru. Leta 1975 je bila odlikovana s francosko legijo časti. Oblikovala je tudi tekstil.
slika: 'Coccinelle'

She was born in Ukraine as Sarah Stern (nicknamed Sonia). She studied art in Karlsruhe and Paris in 1905 and married French painter Robert Delaunay. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964 and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Sonia Delaunay was also interested in Art Deco textile designing.

Deledda Grazia 27.9.1871 - 15.8.1936
(pravo ime Grazia Madesani) Čeprav je bila skoraj brez formalne izobrazbe je začela pisati že s 15 leti. V svojih skoraj 50 romanih je opisovala predvsem pokrajino in življenje ljudi iz rodne Sardinije. Njena najboljša dela: Elias Portolu (1903), Trsi v vetru (1913), Mati (1920) in avtobiografsko delo Cosima (1937). Leta 1926 je prejela Nobelovo nagrado.

Grazia Deledda (pen-name of Grazia Madesani) was an Italian novelist who received the 1926 Nobel Prize for literature "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She set many of her nearly 50 novels - psychological and moral tales usually written in a lyrical and realistic mode - in her native Sardinia. Deledda's best works are Elias Portolu (1903), Canne al vento (Reeds in the Wind, 1913); La Madre (1920; The Mother); and her autobiography Cosima, published posthumously in 1937.

 
        I - 1346

DELIEGE Christel 6.7.1972 -
je belgijska judoistka in belgijska prvakinja leta 2006 v kategoriji do 52 kg, evropska in mladinska svetovna prvakinja.

Belgian judo sportwoman, European champion and junior world champion, in category -52 kg.

  
                B - 3459

Delvard Marya 11.9.1874 - 25.9.1965
(pravo ime Marie Biller) pevka in pripovedovalka v kabaretih ena najbolj znanih zabavljačič v Münchenskih kabaretih.

One of the most memorable entertainers at Munich's cabaret the Eleven Executioners was the legendary Marya Delvard. The French-born Delvard captivated cabaret audiences immediately, at her opening night appearance, with her deathly-pale skin, flaming-red hair, tall, thin figure, and clinging black dress. A violet light cast upon her while she performed only intensified the stark figure that she cut.

  
           HR - 651

Dengel Ana 16.3.1892 - 17.4.1980
Dr. Anna Dengel  je bila ena prvih žensk zdravnic na Tirolskem. Jeseni 1913, ko je končala srednjo šolo v Innsbrucku, se je preselila na Irsko. Tam je študirala medicino na Cork univerzi. Po končanem študiju je leta 1919 odpotovala v Rawalpindi (Indija), kjer se ukvarjala predvsem z babištvom. Med počitnicami v Innsbrucku se je leta 1924 odločila, da ustanovi svoj zdravniško usmerjen red misijonark. 30 septembra leta 1925 je v majhni hiši na obrobju Washingtona ustanovila Družbo misijonark zdravnic. Ta red ima danes 700 članov 22 narodnosti. Med njimi je 70 zdravnic.

Dr. Anna Dengel  was one of the first female doctors in Tyrol. In autumn 1913 after completing her secondary education in Innsbruck, Dengel moved to Ireland. Here she studied medicine at the University of Cork. She finished her studies in 1919 and traveled to Rawalpindi in India where she served as an intern, engaging mainly in midwifery. In 1924 during a vacation in her native Innsbruck, Dengel decided to found her own medically-oriented missionary orde. On September 30, 1925, she established the Society of Missionary Medical Nuns in a small house located in the outskirts of Washington, D.C. Today this society is comprised of 700 members from 22 nations, among them roughly 70 female doctors. 

  
         A - 2067

DERAISMES Maria 17.8.1828 - 6.2.1894
francoska pisateljica in feministka.

French author and feminist was educated and wealthy woman. In 1860s and 1870s became interested in politicalactivism. She was one of founder of Association pur les Droit des Femmes. In 1883 she led with Georges Martin the fight to admit women as masons. Her works: Nos principes et nos moeurs (1868), Eve contre M Dumas the Younger (1872) and Oeuvres Completes (1896).

    
           F - 2942

Derri Qeriba 1905 - 4.4.1944
albanska partizanka
Na znamki AL-2162 sta tudi Sokoli Qibra in Bilibashi Ylbere.

Albanian patriot.
On stamp AL-2162 are also Sokoli Qibra and Bilibashi Ylbere.

 
              AL - 2162

Deryne SzepPataki Roza 24.12.1793 - 29.9.1872
je prva madžarska sopranistka je znana po svojem dnevniku, pomembnem za madžarsko gledališko zgodovino.  
Na bloku H-3841 so tudi Lujza Blaha, Emilia Markus in Gizi Bajor.

First Hungarian opera singer (soprano). She played wide variety of parts in comedies, musical pieces and  tragedies. She sang at opening of National  Theatre in Budimpest. She wrote her diary, very important for Hungarian theatre history.
On sheet H-3841 are also Lujza Blaha, Emilia Markus and Gizi Bajor.

           
                                     H - 3841

Desbordes-Valmore Marceline 20.6.1786 - 23.7.1859
francoska pesnica, romantična lirika, predvsem elegije in idile v katerih je opevala materinska čustva.

French poet born in Douai. Following the French Revolution and the ruin of her family, they emigrated to Guadelupe, whereupon Marceline's mother died of yellow fever. She lost her five-year old child in 1816, born from her first marriage. She would remarry in 1817 with the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore, and thence published her first poetic work in 1819 Élégies et Romances, and then in 1825, Élégies et poésie nouvelles. Despite a somewhat interrupted education, she is known for a compulsive spontaneity in her verses, delicate arrangements of musical sounds and rhythm. After a lifetime of close deaths and various instances of bad luck (she lost four children), she died in  Paris.

 
           F - 1258

DESMAISIERES Maria Michaela sv. (st) 1.1.1809 - 24.8.1865
nuna, ustanoviteljica nunskega reda Služabnic svetega zakramenta in usmiljenja.

She was born in Madrid, lost her mother in childhood, and resisted all attempts to persuade her to marry; she lived with her brother for some years while he was Spanish ambassador at Paris and Brussels. All her interest was given to the religious instruction of the ignorant, the rescue of the unprotected and the fallen, and the relief of sickness and poverty. She founded the congregation of Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity, where she was mother General. In 1865 an epidemic of cholera broke out in Valencia. She helped there her religious daughters, but took the infection herself and died. She was canonized in 1934. Her feast day is August 25th.

 
       E - 1008

DestinNova Ema 26.2.1878 - 28.1.1930
oz. Emmy Destinn, kot je bila znana v tujini je bila češka sopranistka (pravo ime Emilie Pavlina Kittlova) ena največjih dramskih sopranov 20. stoletja. Zaradi svojega bogatega in močnega glasu je bila zelo iskana v času pred 2. svetovno vojno. Pela v najbolj znanih opernih hišah Evrope in ZDA z najbolj znanimi pevci, kot je na primer Enrico Caruso.
 
Ema Destinnova - or Emmy Destinn, as she became known abroad - was one of the greatest dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century and one of the most sought-after singers before WWI, thanks to her voice of exceptional richness, power, and control. She sang with the legendary Enrico Caruso and many other stars in the most prestigious opera houses in Europe and the United States, such as Bayreuth, Berlin's Hofoper, London's Covent Garden and New York's Metropolitan.

     
      CZ - 114                  CZ - 833

DEVETZI Hrysopigi 2.1.1976 -
grška atletinja je na OI 2004 v Atenah dobila srebrno medaljo v troskoku z osebnim rekordom 15,32 m.
 
She is a Greek athlete competing in triple jump and also long jump. She won the triple jump silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympic Athene with a personal best of 15.32 m.

  
          GR -2251

DEVLIN Anne 1780 -1851

Anne Devlin was born in County Wicklow. Her cousins, Michael Dwyer and Arthur Devlin, partook in the 1789 Rising and were imprisoned for two and a half years with her father, Brian, who had not partaken in the Rising. Arthur Devlin introduced Anne Devlin to Robert Emmet and she helped plan the 1803 Rising while acting as 'housekeeper' in Emmet's house in Rathfarnham. After the 1803 Rising Devlin was arrested and tortured but she refused to identify any insurgents and was imprisoned in solitary confinement for three years in a damp, underground cell in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. Anne Devlin's entire family were also imprisoned and seven of them died in Kilmainham Gaol before her release.

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DICESCU Anastasia 1887 - 1945
Moldovska operna pevka - sopranistka.

Moldovian opera soprano singer.

  
                   MD - 598

Diesen Kari 24.6.1914 - 18.3.1987
Norveška operna pevka.

Norvegian opera singer.

  
         N - 1396

Dietrich Marlene 27.12.1901 - 6.5.1992
nemška filmska igralka. Leta 1925 je vzbudila pozornost z vlogo v filmu Plavi angel režiserja Sternberga. Z njim je posnela še več filmov (Maroko, Plavolasa Venera, The devil is a woman), s katerimi je dosegla svetovno slavo kot usodna ženska. 1937 je dobila ameriško državljanstvo, javno je obsojala nacizem in med 2. svetovno vojno nastopala za ameriške vojake. Nemčijo je obiskala šele leta 1960. Po vojni je nastopala po kabaretih. Posnela je tudi svoje pesmi. Zadnjič je zaigrala 1978 v filmu Lepi, ubogi gigolo.  
Na znamki BG-4185 je tudi Marilyn Monroe.

Marlene Dietrich, born as Maria Magdalene von Losch in Berlin  was transformed by director Josef von Sternberg into a cinema sex goddess with her role in the German-made The Blue Angel (1930). Their continued collaboration in Hollywood produced films as different as Morocco (1930), Blond Venus (1932), and The Devil Is a Woman (1935), their last film together. Dietrich's image changed often in later films: a saloon singer in the comedy Destry Rides Again (1939), an aristocrat fallen on hard times in A Foreign Affair (1948), an outlaw in Rancho Notorious (1952), a tough madam in Touch of Evil (1958). An outspoken anti-Nazi, Dietrich won new celebrity during World War II with front-line shows for U.S. troops. From the 1950s into the mid-70s, she toured with a popular cabaret act. Her reclusive last years, in Paris, were documented in the film Marlene (1986). She refused to appear on camera, but her voice tells all.
On stamp BG-4185 is also Marilyn Monroe.

                          
            BG - 4185                              N -1217                                     MD - 385                          BG - 4688 

           
                             GI - 739                                  D - 1939

Dimić Nada 6.9.1923 - 17.3.1942
Delavka, članica SKOJ od 1938, v KPJ od 1940, v NOB od junija 1941. V Sisku so jo ujeli ustaši, vendar je pobegnila na osvobojeno ozemlje in postala članica OK SKOJ v Karlovcu. Novembra 1941 so jo zopet ujeli ustaši. Kljub mučenju ni izdala ničesar. Ustrelili so jo v taborišču Stara Gradiška. za narodnega heroja je bila proglašena 5.7.1951.

Worker, member of Federation of Communist youth since 1938 and member Communist Party of Yugoslavia since 1940. She joined partisan forces in 1941. She was captured by ustash, but she escaped. In November, 1941 was captured again, she was tortured and shot in camp Stara Gradiska. She was proclaimed as National hero on July 5, 1951.

 
         YU - 2037

DIMITROVA Gena 6.1.1941 - 11.6.2005
bolgarska operna pevka.

She was Bulgarian operatic soprano. Her voice was known for its power and extension used in operatic roles such as Turandot in a career spanning four decades. She started singing in the school choir. She studied at the Sofia Conservatory studying under Cristo Brambarov between 1959 and 1964. Her debut came in the mid-1960's as Abigaille in a Bulgarian National Opera production of Verdi's Nabucco. She sang in La Scala and  in Vienna State Opera in 1983, in 1988, she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. 

   
         BG - 4760

Dimitrova Liljana 1918 - 17.6.1944
je bolgarska partizanka, žrtev fašizma v času 2. svetovne vojne.
Na znamki BG-776 je tudi Iordanka Čankova.

Bulgarian heroine, victom of fascism in WWII. From 1939 she was member of Communist party. In 1942 she was arested and sented to concentration camp in Plovdiv. She escaped but later was killed in battle with the german police.
On stamp BG-776 is also Iordanka Čankova.

  
    BG - 776

DIRRANE Maggie
irska igralka, film Man of Aran

Irish actress played a wife of fisherman in film from 1934: Man of Aran (on stamp IE-971) about the fisherman's fight for survival in a remote Irish coastal community.

  
                  IE - 971

D'Istria Dora 22.1.1828 - 17.11.1888

Dora d'Istria is pen-name of duchess Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya, born Elena Ghica or Elena Gjika. She was a Romanian - Albanian writer and feminist.

 
              Al - 1991-1992

Dolores La 13.5.1819 -12.8.1894
(Maria de las Dolores Peinado Narvon)    

  
                E - 3750

Dorsch Kathe 29.12.1890 - 25.12.1957
nemško avstrijska gledališka in filmska igralka.

German actress.

   
            D - 1483

Douglas Mona  1898 - 1987

Mona Douglas is one of the most important and controversial figures in 20th century Manx cultural revival. If the briefest of sketches of her life is taken, it can be said that she was a published poet as a teenager, a natural collector and teacher of Manx music, dance and folklore, the leader behind a youth movement Aeglagh Vannin, and the force behind the revival of Yn Chruinnaght Inter-Celtic Festival in 1976. In her spare time, she worked a farm, was employed as rural librarian, collaborated with composers and artists, and wrote and performed plays.

  
                 Man -1066

DOYLE Maria 1964 -
irska igralka.

Maria Doyle is an Irish-born actress (known as Maria Doyle Kennedy since her 1992 marriage to Kieran Kennedy) who appeared in Irish movies such as The Commitments, about a musical group, which also starred Bronagh Gallagher and Angeline Ball (all three actresses are on stamp IE-969); and The General, with Brendan Gleeson about the notorious Irish gangster Martin Cahill, who was killed by the IRA.

  
                 IE - 969

Dragan Maria 1947 - 1986
pevka ljudskih pesmi

  
               MD - 384

Dransfeld Hedwig 24.2.1871 -13.5.1925

She was German women`s rights activist and work to promote women`s education and to open universities to women. She was one of the leaders of Federal Association of German Catholic Women.

    
         D - 1393

DROOP Constanza 1966 -
nemška ilustratorka "Zajec Felix"
 

Droste-Hulshoff Annette von 12.1.1797 - 24.5.1848

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff was one of the great German poets of her century. She lived an outwardly secure and idyllic, aristocratic life that concealed existential religious doubts and inner passion, especially for her protege, Levin Schucking, her first biographer (1862) and 17 years her junior. Struggling and renunciation inspired great poems (published in 1838, 1844, 1851, 1860) in which lyrical strength, metrical freedom, realism, bold imagery, and symbolism anticipate later trends. Die Judenbuche (1842; The Jews' Beech Tree), her only completed prose work, is a landmark in the history of the novella, combining mystery, symbolism, realism, regionalism, and multiple narrative perspectives.

        
       D - 361                 D - 2295

Dudumi Fato 1927 - 1944
albanska partizanka od 1943. Nemci so jo ujeli, mučili in obesili.
Na znamki AL-2123 sta tudi Margarita Tutulani in Shejnaze Juka.

Albanian patriot - partisan from 1943. She was imprisoned and turtured by Germans and sentenced to death by hanging.
On stamp AL-2123 are also Margarita Tutulani and  Shejnaze Juka.

 
           AL - 2123

Dumi Inajete 1924 - 1944
albanska partizanka.

Albanian patriot partisan.

 
           AL - 2296

Dumont Louise 22.2.1862 - 16.5.1932
nemška igralka in gledališka direktorica.

German actress and theater manager.

  
         D - 910

Dupin Lucie-Aurore
glej George Sand

see George Sand

Duse Eleonora 3.10.1858 - 21.4.1924
Na odrske deske je stopila s štirimi leti, s 14 je že nastopila kot Julija v tragediji Romeo in Julija. Zaslovela je leta 1878 z vlogo Terese Raquin v Neaplju. Nastopala je po celi Evropi, kasneje pa tudi v ZDA. Zavzemala se je za uveljavitev dramskih del D`Annunzia s katerim je nekaj let živela. V nasprotju z večkrat izumetničeno in pretirano čustvenostjo Sarah Bernhardt je bila njena igra naravna pa vendar polna energije in zanosa. Leta 1909 je prenehala nastopati, vendar se je 1921 vrnila na oder. Zadnjič je nastopila malo pred smrtjo na gostovanju v Pittsburgu (ZDA).

The Italian tragedienne Eleonora Duse was known internationally as one of the greatest actresses of her time. Born into a theatrical family, Duse had her first popular success in Emile Augier's The House of Fourchambault (1878). In 1878 she joined a touring company and became a star. Duse's outstanding roles included performances in plays by Victorien Sardou, Henrik Ibsen, and Alexandre Dumas fils. In 1893 she scored notable successes in Carlo Goldoni's La Locandiera and as Magda in Hermann Sudermann's Heimatt. Her role as Magda, performed in London in 1895 at the same time as Sarah Bernhardt's performance, prompted comparisons of the two actresses. She supported and acted in the dramas La Gioconda (1898) and Francesca da Rimini (1902) of Gabriele D'Annunzio, with whom she had a long and tempestuous love affair, recounted in his novel The Flame of Life (1900). She retired in 1909, returned to the stage in 1921, and died while on a tour of the United States.

      
      SU - 2186                I -1026

Dybward Johanne 1867 - 1950

On stamps N-557/558 is portrait of the actress from a bust made by Per Ung. The bust is located at the front of The National Theatre in Oslo. Dybwad was attached to this theatre almost her whole life as artist. In 1947 she retired after 60 years on the stage, admired at home and in Europe as  the most outstanding theatre actress in Scandinavia. She was specially known for her strong portrayal of women characters in the plays by Ibsen and Shakespeare. She managed to give life to these figures with her soul, strong fantasy and passion in a way she always will be remembered in the history of theatre.

                      
                                  N - 557/558
 

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