Henrik Ibsen

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20 mars 1828 — 23 maj 1906 (78 år)
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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.

Filmer och Serier på Plex

  • Ett dockhem
    Ett dockhem1973
  • Ghosts
    Ghosts2014
  • Hedda Gabler
    Hedda Gabler1981

Känd för

  • While We're Young
    While We're Young2015
  • Hedda
    Hedda2025
  • Dottern
    Dottern2015
  • A Doll's House
    A Doll's House1973
  • A Master Builder
    A Master Builder2013
  • Terje Vigen
    Terje Vigen1917
  • En folkfiende
    En folkfiende1989
  • En folkfiende
    En folkfiende1978
  • Hedda Gabler
    Hedda Gabler1962
  • Nora Helmer
    Nora Helmer1974
  • Ett dockhem
    Ett dockhem1973
  • Peer Gynt
    Peer Gynt1941
  • Ghosts
    Ghosts2014
  • Hedda Gabler
    Hedda Gabler1975
  • Pillars of Society
    Pillars of Society1935
  • Heart of Lightness
    Heart of Lightness2014
  • An Enemy of the People
    An Enemy of the People2005
  • Akasha Gopuram
    Akasha Gopuram2008
  • National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
    National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler2017
  • Hedda Gabler
    Hedda Gabler2016

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