About

Known credits:
122
Birthday:
1828-03-20
Place of birth:
Skien, Telemark, Norway
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Henrik Ibsen

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.

Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt has strong surreal elements. After Peer Gynt Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's later work examined the realities that lay behind the facades, revealing much that was disquieting to a number of his contemporaries. He had a critical eye and conducted a free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. In many critics' estimates The Wild Duck and Rosmersholm are "vying with each other as rivals for the top place among Ibsen's works"; Ibsen himself regarded Emperor and Galilean as his masterpiece.

Ibsen is often ranked as one of the most distinguished playwrights in the European tradition. He is widely regarded as the foremost playwright of the nineteenth century. He influenced other playwrights and novelists such as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neill, and Miroslav Krleža. Ibsen was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, 1903, and 1904.

Ibsen wrote his plays in Danish (the common written language of Denmark and Norway during his lifetime) and they were published by the Danish publisher Gyldendal. Although most of his plays are set in Norway—often in places reminiscent of Skien, the port town where he grew up—Ibsen lived for 27 years in Italy and Germany, and rarely visited Norway during his most productive years. Born into a patrician merchant family, the intertwined Ibsen and Paus family, Ibsen shaped his dramas according to his family background and often modeled characters after family members. He was the father of Prime Minister Sigurd Ibsen. Ibsen's dramas had a strong influence upon contemporary culture.

Known for

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2009 Carl Størmer and his Detective Camera Actor Himself (archival footage) N/A
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Writing
2023 Ghosts Writing Writer N/A
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2023 Ett dockhem - från Dramaten Writing Theatre Play N/A
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2023 Peer Gynt Writing Writer N/A
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2021 Enemy of the People Writing Writer 59
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2020 The Master Builder Writing Writer N/A
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2019 Peer Gynt Writing Theatre Play N/A
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2018 Doll's House Writing Story N/A
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2017 Gjengangere Writing Writer N/A
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2017 National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler Writing Theatre Play 59
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2016 Hedda Gabler Writing Author N/A
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2016 Hedda Writing Theatre Play 58
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2015 Solness Writing Story 58
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2015 The Daughter Writing Author 59
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2014 Le Canard sauvage Writing Theatre Play N/A
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2014 A Master Builder Writing Author 59
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2014 Ghosts Writing Writer 59
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2013 Et dukkehjem Writing Theatre Play N/A
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2012 A Doll's House Writing Writer N/A
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2010 Une maison de poupée Writing Theatre Play N/A
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2008 Aakasha Gopuram Writing Story N/A
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2008 Peer Gynt from the Streets Writing Original Story N/A
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2006 Peer Gynt Writing Novel 58
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2006 Hedda Gabler Writing Writer N/A
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2005 An Enemy of the People Writing Story 59
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2004 Hedda Gabler Writing Theatre Play N/A
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2004 Hedda Gabler Writing Theatre Play N/A
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2001 Rosmersholm Writing Writer N/A
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1993 Peer Gynt Writing Writer N/A
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1993 Hedda Gabler Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1993 Hedda Gabler Writing Writer N/A
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1993 Sara Writing Writer 59
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1992 A Doll's House Writing Writer 58
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1990 An Enemy of the People Writing Author 59
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1990 An Enemy of the People Writing Writer N/A
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1989 Vildanden Writing Writer 69
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1989 Doctor Stockmann Writing Theatre Play 58
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1988 Hedda Gabler Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1988 The Master Builder Writing Writer N/A
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1987 Ghosts Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1984 Rosmersholm Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1984 Ibsen's Motif Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1984 La donna del mare Writing Writer N/A
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1984 The Wild Duck Writing Author 59
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1984 Staviteľ Solness Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1982 Little Eyolf Writing Writer N/A
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1982 John Gabriel Borkman Writing Writer N/A
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1981 Byggmester Solness Writing Author N/A
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1981 Peer Gynt Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1981 Un enemigo del pueblo Writing Writer N/A
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1981 Hedda Gabler Writing Author 59
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1980 Hedda Gabler Writing Writer N/A
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1980 Nora Helmer's Final Scene in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House Writing Story N/A
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1980 An Enemy of the People Writing Author N/A
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1979 Fruen fra havet Writing Writer N/A
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1978 An Enemy of the People Writing Author 59
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1978 John Gabriel Borkman Writing Writer 58
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1977 Ghosts Writing Writer N/A
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1976 The Wild Duck Writing Original Story N/A
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1975 Hedda Writing Writer 59
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1975 Lady Inger of Ostrat Writing Writer 59
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1974 Peer Gynt Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1974 Rosmersholm Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1974 The Lady From the Sea Writing Writer 58
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1974 Nora Helmer Writing Author 59
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1973 A Doll's House Writing Writer 59
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1973 A Doll's House Writing Author 58
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1973 A Doll's House Writing Theatre Play 58
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1973 A Doll's House Writing Original Story 58
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1972 Divá kačka Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1972 Hedda Gabler Writing Author N/A
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1972 Opory společnosti Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1972 The Enemy of the People Writing Theatre Play 58
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1971 The Wild Duck Writing Writer N/A
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1970 Ett Dockhem Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1969 Hedda Gablerová Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1968 Strašidla Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1967 Hedda Gabler Writing Writer N/A
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1966 An Enemy of the People Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1964 John Gabriel Borkman Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1963 The Wild Duck Writing Author 58
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1962 Hedda Gabler Writing Author 59
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1960 The Master Builder Writing Writer N/A
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1959 A Doll's House Writing Theatre Play 59
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1959 A Doll's House Writing Original Story 59
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1959 Brand Writing Writer N/A
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1958 The Master Builder Writing Writer N/A
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1956 Nora Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1955 Nora Writing Writer N/A
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1954 La dama del mar Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1944 Nora Writing Novel 59
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1943 Casa de muñecas Writing Theatre Play 58
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1941 Peer Gynt Writing Writer 59
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1935 Pillars of Society Writing Theatre Play 58
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1935 Pillars of Society Writing Writer 58
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1926 The House of Lies Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1926 The House of Lies Writing Writer N/A
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1925 Hedda Gabler Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1923 Nora Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1922 A Doll's House Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1920 Hedda Gabler Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1919 Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1919 Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1918 A Doll's House Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1918 Gli spettri Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1917 A Doll's House Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1917 A Doll's House Writing Story N/A
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1917 Hedda Gabler Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1917 Her Sacrifice Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1917 A Man There Was Writing Story 60
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1916 Pillars of Society Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1915 Peer Gynt Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1915 Ghosts Writing Theatre Play 58
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1915 Brandt Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1915 Ghosts Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1911 The Lady from the Sea Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1911 Sins of the Father Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1911 A Doll's House Writing Theatre Play 58
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1911 Pillars of Society Writing Writer N/A
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The Master Builder Writing Writer N/A
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Hedda Writing Theatre Play N/A
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Hedda Gabler Writing Theatre Play N/A
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