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Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama". He pioneered theatrical realism but also wrote lyrical epic works. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler…
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Born 20 March 1828 · Died 23 May 1906 · Q36661
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The old illusory France has been smashed to pieces, when finally the new factual Prussia has been smashed to pieces too then, in one leap, we shall be in an age of becoming [sic]. How the ideas will then collapse around us ... The concepts need a new content and a new explanation. Freedom, equality and fraternity are no longer the same things they were in the days of the blessed guillotine.
Is it not impudent of the commune in Paris to go and destroy my admirable state theory, or rather no state theory? The idea is now ruined for a long time to come, and I cannot even set it forth in verse with any propriety.
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“The old illusory France has been smashed to pieces, when finally the new factual Prussia has been smashed to pieces too then, in one leap, we shall be in an age of becoming [sic]. How the ideas will then collapse around us ... The concepts need a new content and a new explanation. Freedom, equality and fraternity are no longer the same things they were in the days of the blessed guillotine.”
“Is it not impudent of the commune in Paris to go and destroy my admirable state theory, or rather no state theory? The idea is now ruined for a long time to come, and I cannot even set it forth in verse with any propriety.”
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“is the curse of the individual. ... The state must be abolished.”
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“while the storm lasted, I have made many studies and observations and I shall not hesitate to exploit them in my future writings”
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“s block. The Wild Duck draws inspiration from Ibsen”
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“exceptional upper-class background”
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“we belong to a silent family”
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“my parents were members on both sides of the most respected families in Skien”
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Scroll.in: In a new book on her reading life, Shanta Gokhale writes about Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘A Doll’s House’
Bangkok Post: Henrik Ibsen hounoured by Chula drama programme
Inbox.lv: "Duck Hunting," Ibsen and "Thumbelina": Daugavpils Theatre Unveils Plans for the New Season
The Guardian: A Trial: After An Enemy of the People review – Wagner Moura upends Ibsen and keeps us guessing
Ibsen was considered the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare
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Håkon Anton Fagerås sculpted a statue in marble of Ibsen for the Ibsen Museum in Oslo
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Håkon Anton Fagerås made two busts in bronze of Ibsen—one for Parco Ibsen in Sorrento, Italy, and one in Skien kommune
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The homebuilding company Selvaag also opened Peer Gynt Sculpture Park in Oslo, Norway, in Henrik Ibsen's honour, making it possible to follow the dramatic play Peer Gynt scene by scene
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Was commemorated with an "Ibsen year" in Norway and other countries
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The Norwegian government organised the Ibsen Year, which included celebrations around the world
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The Ibsen crater on the planet Mercury
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At the close of the Ibsen Sesquicentennial Symposium held in New York City to mark the 150th anniversary of Henrik Ibsen's birth
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Died 1906-05-23.
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“The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. The great secret of action and victory is to be capable of living your life without ideals. Such is the sum of the whole world's wisdom.”
“(...) den sterkeste mann i verden, det er han som står mest alene.(norw.)”
“Se não podes ser o que és, sê com sinceridade o que podes ser.”
“Kiedy jest się na proszonym obiedzie, to trzeba zapracować na deser.”
“Niewyśpiewane pieśni są zawsze najpiękniejsze.”
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
“Nikt nie umiera w samym środku piątego aktu.”
And shortly before Ibsen's death, Hogetsu Shimamura declared an "Age of Ibsen" in Japan
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That Ibsen did not have a drop of Norwegian blood in his veins, stating that "the ancestral Ibsen was a Dane"
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Another scathing commentary on the morality of Ibsen's society, in which a widow reveals to her pastor that she had hidden the evils of her marriage for its duration
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“s House and Ghosts, and it did lessen with the later plays, but the translation of Ibsen”
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And began work on his first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society, first published and performed in 1877
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Commander in 1892, and with the Grand Cross of the Order of St
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Where he spent years writing the play he regarded as his main work, Emperor and Galilean (1873), dramatizing the life and times of the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate
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Left Christiania and went to Sorrento in Italy in self-imposed exile
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To become the creative director of the Christiania Theatre
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When Ibsen was 18, he had a liaison with Else Sophie Jensdatter Birkedalen which produced a son, Hans Jacob Hendrichsen Birkdalen, whose upbringing Ibsen paid for until the boy was fourteen, though Ibsen never saw the ch
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After Henrik left home, the Ibsen family moved to a townhouse at Snipetorp, owned by Knud Ibsen's half-brother and former apprentice Christopher Blom Paus, who had established himself as an independent merchant in Skien
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And who eventually became one of the city's leading shipowners
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The family was forced to sell Altenburggården
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Marichen's mother Hedevig left Altenburggården and her properties and business ventures to her son-in-law Knud, and the Ibsen family moved to Marichen's childhood home in 1831
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Born 1828-03-20.
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Henrik's father Knud acquired the burghership of Skien and established an independent business as a timber and luxury goods merchant there, with his younger brother, Christopher Blom Paus, then aged 15, as his apprentice
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