Henrik Ibsen short biography

Henrik Ibsen 

Short Biography

Henrik was born in 1828 and died in Norway in 1906.
He was a and poet Norwegian playwright, theatre director,
He is regarded  as the father of modern theater.
He is also considered one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre.
He is considered often as one of the truly  best and great playwrights in the European values.
His father's name was Knud Ibsen and the name of his mother was Marichen Altenburg.
His father was a merchant and dealt in shipping timber.

His themes deals with issues of moral conflicts and financial difficulties.

At the age of fifteen Henrik was forced to leave the school.

The characters in his plays are almost mirror to his parents..
He went to Grimstad to become an apprentice phamacist.
When he returned to Christiania he becomes the creative director of the Christiania Theatre.
He married Suzannah Thoresen in 1858.
She gave birth to their only child Sigurd.
The couple lived in very poor financial circumstances.
He left Christiania in 1864 to Sorrento in Italy in self-imposed exile.
He moved from Italy to Dresden, Germany in 1868.

Like Chekhov Ibsen had completely rewritten the rules of drama with a realism.

Henrik Ibsen Works:
1850 Catiline
1850 The Burial Mound
1851 Norma
1852 St. John's Eve
1854 Lady Inger of Oestraat
1855 The Feast at Solhaug
1856 Olaf Liljekrans
1857 The Vikings at Helgeland
1862 Love's Comedy
1863 The Pretenders
1866 Brand
1869 The League of Youth
1873 Emperor and Galilean
1877 Pillars of Society
1879 A Doll's House
1881 Ghosts
1882 An Enemy of the People
1884 The Wild Duck
1886 Rosmersholm
1888 The Lady from the Sea
1890 Hedda Gabler
1892 The Master Builder
1894 Little Eyolf
1896 John Gabriel Borkman
1899 When We Dead Awaken