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L eonard cohen muse7/1/2023 ![]() She also briefly worked as an au pair in Newcastle, in England. Graduating at the age of 19 Ihlen took a number of jobs, including as secretary at an attorney’s office in Oslo, Kristiania Shoe Store, the Norsk Bygdekino cinema, and in 1956 at the Save the Children charitable organization. While her father had hoped that she would become a doctor or lawyer, Ihlen did not know what she wanted to do, so opted to take business studies at the Oslo Municipal Trade School. This put pressure on the couple’s relationship and forced her mother to take a job in the licence office of the national broadcasting company. Īs the 1950s progressed the family’s financial situation became strained as Ihlen’s father lacked the lung capacity as a result of his tuberculosis treatment to work for an entire day in court. ![]() Her younger brother, Nils, when he was two suffered from tuberculosis for more than a year during which while her mother nursed her son and husband Ihlen spent time with her maternal grandmother in Larkollen. Ihlen was raised in Oslo where her father was a lawyer.ĭuring the Second World War Ihlen's father contracted tuberculosis which required a long period of treatment at the Mesnali sanatorium near Lillehammer. Known as “Mosse”, her mother was the daughter of opera singer Wilhelm Cappelle Kloed and had had a privileged childhood, including having been sent to Paris to learn French. ![]() Ihlen was born on in Larkollen, Norway, the elder of the two children of Ingeborg Louise ( née Kloed, 29 April 1909 – 5 September 2003) and Nils Ihlen (27 October 1906 – 16 November 1959). She was the subject of Cohen's 1967 song " So Long, Marianne". Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen ( Norwegian: – 28 July 2016) was a Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s. Axel Joachim Jensen (born 21 January 1960) ![]()
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