Ole Paus Biography, Music And Books

Ole Paus Biography

Ole Paus who was born on 9 February 1947; full name Ole Christian Paus, is a Norwegian troubadour in the Swedish-Norwegian ballad tradition, an author, a poet, and an actor. He is widely considered one of Norway’s most popular singer-songwriters. He has been described as the Norwegian counterpart of Bob Dylan and as the “voice of the nation.”

He is the son of General Ole Otto Paus and a member of the Paus family. He is the father of composer Marcus Paus.

Ole Paus Artistic Work

Ole Paus debuted as a singer-songwriter in 1970 and as an author the following year, after he was discovered by Alf Cranner and Alf Prøysen, respectively. He was one of the central figures of the so-called visebølgen i Norge, i.e. troubadours in the tradition of Evert Taube, Cornelis Vreeswijk and others.

Visitor Alf Cranner was one of the first to hear the young pope’s show, and immediately called his own record company and demanded that they give Pope’s record contract. 23 years old he debuted with the album out there – inside . It has been said that Out there – setting the standard for Norwegian visual arts in the 1970s. Alf Cranner wrote an article where he did not hide from his great enthusiasm for the young performer.

Ole Paus has said that the family did not want him to do music: “It was a shame about the music performance. Fishermen did not exist at that time. I studied and pretended that I did everything else, but Alf said that the visions had value in themselves. I did not think so. ”

The album Garman (1972), which he recorded along with several musicians from Pussycat , stands as an early highlight in Pope’s production. He shows here a clear inspiration from Bob Dylan .

Alf Prøysen introduced Pope to the publishing age , and, like Alf Cranner, the Prøys did not save the superlatives. In 1971, Pope’s first book, poetry collection Tekster came from a staircase . In a series of records titled the Pope post , Ole Paus used the distinction to comment on social issues in ironic and often libelous ways.

Since the 1970s Ole Paus has often collaborated with Ketil Bjørnstad , and they have released several albums together. In 1998, they also published the book Reisen til Gallia, or it is typically Norwegian to be good . He has also collaborated a lot with Jonas Fjeld in the duo Rusty Herrer . From the 1990s, Ole Paus has had a productive collaboration with Erik Hillestad and Church Cultural Workshop , which has resulted in several records where Pope interprets hymns. The plate Salmer on the road home is a collaboration between Pope, Mari Boine Persen and Kari Bremnes . In It begins to be a life , Pope sings six own songs crossed with hymns by Hans Adolph Brorson .

If Henrik Ibsen’s relative has said Ole Paus: “I am fascinated by the blend of complete rebel and completely bourgeois in Ibsen. He speaks both the high-boring language and the anarchist language without accent. Impressive! ” Ole Paus announced that he would post as a record artist after a final triple album was released June 7, 2013. However, he has released several CDs, such as Frolandia (With Ketil Bjørnstad) and Singer from the boys room.

Ole Paus My little country

Pope’s song « My Little Country » has been used as a profile song for TV 2 since the beginning of the 1990s with cover versions of a number of Norwegian musicians. Christine Guldbrandsen , Maria Solheim and Thomas Dybdahl . From 2008, the song has been reused with new cover versions by Mari Boine , Anne Grete Preus , Haddy N’jie , Kurt Nilsen , DDE , Silverguttene and Tone Damli Aaberge .

The song gained new popularity after the terrorist attacks in Norway in 2011. The special version of Maria Mena was used in several contexts.

Ole Paus Age

Ole Paus was born on 9 February 1947.

Ole Paus Family

Ole Paus belongs to the ” Skiing Branch” of the genus Pope and is the son of General Major Ole Paus (1910-2003) and Else Corneliussen (1916-1951). He is one of a number of family members named Ole Paus , who was also the name of the steel grocery company Ole Paus , started by his grandfather in 1872. His grandfather was the Norwegian Consulate General in Vienna , later the factory owner and estate owner in Skåne Thorleif Paus (1881- 1976), married the first time to the Austrian Ella Stein (1883-1971), belonging to a bourgeois Jewish family from Vienna.

Ole Paus is the grandson of steel gossip, factory owner and bank director Ole Paus (1846-1931) and Birgitte Halvordine Schou (cousin to Halvor Schou ). Oldefaren Ole Paus was cousin of Henrik Ibsen ; tippolfare, shipowner and bank director of Skien Christopher Blom Paus were both half-brother of Knud Ibsen and cousin of Marichen Altenburg . The first with the name Ole Paus was his tip-tip-grandfather, shipowner and proprietor in Skien Ole Paus (1766-1855).

On Mother’s Day, Ole Paus’s grandparents were sous chief in Tiedemann Tobaksfabrik and member of the Federation of Industry Association Ragnar Corneliussen (1887-1938) and Monna Morgenstierne Roll (1891-1976), daughter of Supreme Court Attorney Emil Olaf Roll and, among others, grandchild of Norway’s first government attorney , Bredo Henrik von Munthe of Morgenstierne the elder .

Ole Paus is the grandson of the schoolman Andreas Martin Corneliussen (who was a co-owner of Nissen’s Pikeskole at Frogner) and through him follows Peter Pavel’s Aabel . Ole Paus is also the descendant of Jacob Aall (dead 1826), owner of Borgestad Farm , by Chief Justice Judge, Deputy President , Director of Norges Bank and Mayor of Trondhjem Jacob Roll (1783-1870), by Christian Lintrup , one of Norway’s first doctors. by Jacob von der Lippe Parelius . Ole Paus is also related to, among other things, Oda Krohg and Bok Lasson (tremenninger to his grandmother Monna Morgenstierne Roll). He is the grandnev of Elias Corneliussen , chief of defense and nephew of opponent Kai Holst .

His father grew up in Austria , where he went to the famous Theresianum school. At the age of 19, he moved to Norway without being able to Norwegian. In Norway he educated himself as an officer and worked during World War II at the Armed Forces Command in London. Oles parents married in London in 1944, but his mother died when he was four years old in 1951.

He has two brothers, economist economist Hans Peter Cornelius Paus (born 1945 in London) and Captain Thorleif Fredrik Mikael Paus (born 1957) , as in the 1980s was adjutant of Defense Manager Fredrik Bull-Hansen, and later worked with the brother with rehearsals, as program director on television and as director of Accenture .

Ole Paus has been a partner with Henny Moan and married Anne-Karine Strøm , Randi Heide and is now married to Professor of Medical Genetics Benedicte Paus . The composer Marcus Paus (born 1979) is the son of Ole Paus and Anne Karine Strøm. He also has a son with Henny Moan. He also has two adoptive daughters with Randi Heide and two daughters with Benedicte Pope.

When Ole Paus was a child, the family moved a lot around with an apartment in Oslo as a base. He has among other things lived in Trondheim for a period when the family lived in the Commandant dwelling on Singsaker . The father was a Norwegian military attache in Stockholm for a few years, but the children lived in Oslo with their unmarried Aunt Helvig Pope and Austrian-born grandmother Ella Paus, born Stein. “I spent some time childhood in Vienna in Vienna,” Ole Paus has said about the home that was full of Viennese culture and a grandmother who “oriented only after the Vienna weather forecast”.

Ole Paus attended Oslo Cathedral School and became a high school graduate strong for the national affairs case , as chairman of the Danish High School Association. He first made public publicity in 1963 when Aftenposten and VG mentioned a riksmålsdemonstration at Stortorvet, “against cohabitation infiltration in schools”, consisting mainly of around 800 high school students, where Pope was one of the main speakers together with actors Liv Ullmann and Knut Wigert .

Ole Paus stated in this connection, according to Aftenposten , “The more shades a language has, the richer it becomes.”  According to VG , he said: “The worst thing about cohabitation, next to its berserkgang to the Norwegian language, is to co-exist is forced policy and fully violates democratic principles in Norway. ”

After graduation, Ole Paus studied philology at the University.

Ole Paus Children

He has 4 children ; Marcus Paus, Madeleine Heide Paus, Heide Katharina Paus, Sole Christian Paus

Ole Paus Books

• Tekster fra en trapp (1971)
• Det går en narr gjennom byen med ringlende bjeller (1974)
• Endelig alene (1984)
• Milunia (1985)
• Hjemmevant utenfor (1994)
• Reisen til Gallia (1998) (with Ketil Bjørnstad)
• Kjære Kongen (2002)
• Blomstene ved Amras (2004)
• Isengaard (2006)

Reviews

• Ikke gjør som mora di sier (1987)
• For fattig og rik (1988)
• Norge mitt Norge (1991)
• Sammen igjen (1992)

Ole Paus Discography/Music

Discography

• Der ute – der inne (1970)
• Garman (1972)
• Blues for Pyttsan Jespersens pårørende (1973)
• Ole Bull Show (with Gunnar Bull Gundersen) (1973)
• Zarepta (1974)
• Lise Madsen, Moses og de andre (with Ketil Bjørnstad) (1975)
• I anstendighetens navn (1976)
• Paus-posten (1977)
• Nye Paus-posten (1977)
• Sjikaner i utvalg (1978)
• Kjellersanger (1979)
• Noen der oppe (1982)
• Bjørnstad/Paus/Hamsun (with Ketil Bjørnstad) (1982)
• Svarte ringer (1982)
• Grensevakt (1984)
• Muggen manna (1986)
• Stjerner i rennesteinen (1989)
• Salmer på veien hjem (with Kari Bremnes og Mari Boine)(1991)
• Biggles’ testamente (1992)
• Mitt lille land (1994)
• Hva hjertet ser (1995)
• Stopp pressen! Det grøvste fra Paus-posten (1995)
• To Rustne Herrer (with Jonas Fjeld) (1996)
• Pausposten Extra! (1996)
• Det begynner å bli et liv(1998)
• Damebesøk (with Jonas Fjeld) (1998)
• Den velsignede (2000)
• Kildens bredd (with Ketil Bjørnstad) (2002)
• Tolv Rustne Strenger (with Jonas Fjeld) (2003)
• En bøtte med lys (2004)
• Sanger fra et hvitmalt gjerde i sjelen (2005)
• Hellige natt – Jul i Skippergata (2006)
• Den Store Norske Sangboka (2007)
• Paus synger Paus (2009)
• Dugnad for Haiti – Live fra Operaen (2010), with other artists
• Mitt lille land (2011), with other artists
• 20 av de beste sangene, vol 1 (2013)
• Avslutningen (2013)
• Sanger fra gutterommet (2016)

Songs

• “I en sofa fra IKEA”
• “Innerst i sjelen”
• “Mitt lille land” (Peaked at #4 in VG-lista Norwegian Singles Chart)

Opera

Heksene (2007) (libretto)

Ole Paus Filmography/Films

• Inntrengeren, (1974) – history of Ole Paus in a TV-series Et lite grøss?
• Solstreif, (1980) – as author
• De blå ulvene as guest (1993)
• Bikinisesongen as Robert (1994)
• Upperdog as Axel’s father (2009)

TV Specials host

• På tide med Ole Paus – TV series presenter (1992–1993, produced by Lasse Halberg and Petter Wallace on TV3)
• Hjemme hos Paus – TV series presenter with Elsa Lystad (1994, produced by Petter Wallace on TV2)
• Ute med Paus TV series presenter (1995 produced by Petter Wallace on TV2)

Ole Paus Awards

• Spellemannprisen, Årets Viseplate (This Year’s Folk Song Album), 1976
• Gammleng-prisen, 1995
• Spellemannprisen, Juryens Hederspris (The Jury’s Honorary Award), 1998
• Lytterprisen, 1999
• Alf Prøysens Ærespris, 2001,
• Spellemannsprisen, Årets Spellemann (This Year’s Spellemann), 2013

Ole Paus Concerts

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Ole Paus Photos

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