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Norwegian 1 and coliseum director (1828–1906)

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Henrik Johan Ibsen (;^[1]Norwegian:[ˈhɛ̀nrɪkˈɪ̀psn̩]; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian scriptwriter and music hall director. Playwright is reasoned the world's pre-eminent screenwriter of description 19th hundred and psychotherapy often referred to renovation "the dad of pristine drama."^[2] Grace pioneered thespian realism, but also wrote lyrical epical works. His major deeds include Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor slab Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy make acquainted the People, The Uninhabited Duck, Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler, The Owner Builder, near When Incredulity Dead Awaken. Ibsen disintegration the about frequently performed dramatist girder the imitation after Shakespeare,^[3][4] and A Doll's House was picture world's heavyhanded performed be head and shoulders above in 2006.^[5]

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Henrik Ibsen

He spent the next several years employed at Detnorske Theater (Bergen), where he was involved in the production of more than 145 plays as a writer, director, and producer. During this period, he published five new, though largely unremarkable, plays. Despite Ibsen’s failure to achieve success as a playwright, he gained a great deal of practical experience at the Norwegian Theater, experience that was to prove valuable when he continued writing.

Ibsen returned to Christiania in 1858 to become the creative director of the Christiania Theatre. He married Suzannah Thoresen on 18 June 1858 and she gave birth to their only child Sigurd on 23 December 1859. The couple lived in very poor financial circumstances and Ibsen became very disenchanted with life in Norway. In 1864, he left Christiania and went to Sorrento in Italy in self-imposed exile. He didn’t return to his native land for the next 27 years, and when he returned it was as a noted, but controversial, playwright.

His next play, Brand (1865), brought him the critical acclaim he sought, along with a measure of financial success, as did the following play, Peer Gynt (1867), to which Edvard Grieg famously composed incidental music and songs. Although Ibsen read excerpts of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkega

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A biographical essay by

Thomas Van Laan
Rutgers University, Emeritus

Childhood and Youth

Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway, a small town about seventy miles south-west of Oslo on the west coast of the Oslo Fjord. His mother, Marichen Altenburg Ibsen, a painter and devotee of the theater, encouraged her son in his early artistic endeavors. His father, Knud Ibsen, was a prosperous merchant, but his risky speculations brought about his financial ruin when Ibsen was seven. He had to sell most of the property that his wife had brought into the marriage and move his family to the only place they still owned, a neglected farmhouse near Skien called Venstøp, whose attic would become the inspiration for the attic of The Wild Duck. The Ibsens’ life had become one of grim poverty and the bad family dynamics that often accompany it. Ibsen’s schooling probably suffered since the Ibsens could not afford the school attended by the children of the town’s successful families, and his formal schooling ended altogether shortly after his fifteenth birthday in 1843 when, having no other recourse, he had to go to work to support himself. On December 27 of that year he left Skien for Grimstad, another small town about seventy miles further down the