Henrik Ibsen
Writing
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.
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movieHedda
2025
Theatre Play
Upiory
2025
Author
movieGhosts
2023
Writer
movieEtt dockhem - från Dramaten
2023
Theatre Play
moviePeer Gynt
2023
Writer
moviePeer Gynt
2019
Theatre Play
movieA Doll's House
2019
Writer
movieGjengangere
2017
Writer
movieNational Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2017
Theatre Play
movieHedda Gabler
2016
Author
movieHedda
2016
Theatre Play
movieSolness
2015
Theatre Play
movieThe Daughter
2015
Author
movieLe Canard sauvage
2014
Theatre Play
movieA Master Builder
2014
Theatre Play
movieGhosts
2014
Writer
movieApparition
2014
Theatre Play
movieEin Volksfeind
2013
Writer
movieEt dukkehjem
2013
Theatre Play
movieA Doll's House
2012
Writer
moviePeer Gynt
2012
Author
movieUne maison de poupée
2010
Theatre Play
moviePeer Gynt from the Streets
2008
Original Story
moviePeer Gynt
2006
Novel
movieAn Enemy of the People
2005
Theatre Play
movieHedda Gabler
2004
Theatre Play
Hedda Gabler
2004
Theatre Play
moviePeer Gynt
1993
Writer
movieHedda Gabler
1993
Theatre Play
movieHedda Gabler
1993
Writer
movieSara
1993
Theatre Play
movieA Doll's House
1992
Writer
movieThe Adventures of Peer Gynt
1992
Original Concept
Peer Gynt
1991
Theatre Play
movieAn Enemy of the People
1990
Theatre Play
tvVildanden
1989
Writer
movieDoctor Stockmann
1989
Theatre Play
movieHedda Gabler
1988
Theatre Play
movieGhosts
1987
Theatre Play
tvTheatre Night
1985
Theatre Play
movieRosmersholm
1984
Theatre Play
movieIbsen's Motif
1984
Theatre Play
movieThe Wild Duck
1984
Author
Staviteľ Solness
1984
Theatre Play
movieLittle Eyolf
1982
Writer
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Theatre Play
Peer Gynt
1981
Theatre Play
movieHedda Gabler
1981
Author
movieHedda Gabler
1980
Writer
moviePeer Gynt
1979
Theatre Play
movieGhosts
1977
Writer
movieThe Wild Duck
1976
Theatre Play
movieHedda
1975
Theatre Play
movieLady Inger of Ostrat
1975
Theatre Play
Peer Gynt
1974
Theatre Play
Rosmersholm
1974
Theatre Play
movieNora Helmer
1974
Author
movieA Doll's House
1973
Writer
movieA Doll's House
1973
Theatre Play
movieA Doll's House
1973
Original Story
Divá kačka
1972
Theatre Play
moviePeer Gynt
1972
Writer
Opory společnosti
1972
Theatre Play
movieThe Enemy of the People
1972
Theatre Play
tvCaso Especial
1971
Original Story
Stage 2
1971
Novel
movieThe Wild Duck
1971
Writer
movieEtt Dockhem
1970
Theatre Play
tvAlta comedia
1970
Theatre Play
movieThe Wild Duck
1970
Writer
Hedda Gablerová
1969
Theatre Play
movieCasa di bambola
1968
Writer
Strašidla
1968
Theatre Play
moviePeer Gynt
1968
Author
movieHedda Gabler
1967
Writer
tvITV Playhouse
1967
Writer
movieAn Enemy of the People
1966
Theatre Play
tvNET Playhouse
1966
Writer
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
Author, Theatre Play, Writer
tvTheatre 625
1964
Writer
movieThe Wild Duck
1963
Author
movieHedda Gabler
1962
Author
movieA Doll's House
1959
Original Story, Theatre Play
movieBrand
1959
Writer
movieThe Master Builder
1958
Theatre Play
Nora
1956
Theatre Play
tvArmchair Theatre
1956
Writer
Nora
1955
Theatre Play
Nora
1955
Writer
movieLa dama del mar
1954
Theatre Play
movieNora
1944
Novel
movieCasa de muñecas
1943
Theatre Play
moviePeer Gynt
1941
Writer
movieAn Enemy of the People
1937
Theatre Play
moviePillars of Society
1935
Theatre Play
The House of Lies
1926
Theatre Play, Writer
movieHedda Gabler
1925
Theatre Play
Nora
1923
Theatre Play
movieA Doll's House
1922
Theatre Play
Hedda Gabler
1920
Theatre Play
movieA Doll's House
1918
Theatre Play
Gli spettri
1918
Theatre Play
movieA Doll's House
1917
Theatre Play, Story
movieHedda Gabler
1917
Theatre Play
movieHer Sacrifice
1917
Theatre Play
moviePillars of Society
1916
Theatre Play
moviePeer Gynt
1915
Theatre Play
movieGhosts
1915
Theatre Play
movieBrandt
1915
Theatre Play
movieGhosts
1915
Theatre Play
movieThe Lady from the Sea
1911
Theatre Play
Sins of the Father
1911
Theatre Play
movieA Doll's House
1911
Theatre Play
Hedda Gabler
Theatre Play
movieHidden Waters
Original Story
Acting1
movieCarl Størmer and his Detective Camera
2009
Himself (archival footage)