Biography Henryr
Born: March 20, G. was also engaged in poetry and journalism. Born in the family of a wealthy merchant, who was ruined in the Danish language in his Norwegian version, which in his time was a literary language of Norway. Starting with, he worked as a pharmacist. Then he wrote the first verses and drama from the ancient Roman history of Katilin, whose motives reflect revolutionary events in Europe.
The drama came out under the pseudonym and did not enjoy success. In Christiania, Ibsen's play “The Bogatyr Kurgan” was staged. He led the first National Norwegian Theater in Bergen, and headed ... the Norwegian Theater in Christiania. The Bergen period of his life coincides with the enthusiasm of the writer by political nationalism and Scandinavian folklore.
In Ibsen writes the work “Comedy of Love”, in which the satirical picture of the philistine-Chinovsky Norway was outlined. In the People's Historical Drama, the struggle for the throne, Ibsen showed the victory of the hero, performing a progressive historical mission. However, the literary impossibility of fully describing human relationships with the help of medieval images and romantic cliches, and non-religious disappointments in nationalism after the Austro-Prussian-Data war prompted Ibsen to go abroad in search of new forms.
Ibsen spent a quarter of a century abroad, lived in Rome, Dresden, Munich. The first world -famous plays were the poetry dramas “Brand” and “Per Gunt”, they illustrate the opposite features of Ibsen himself, as well as his contemporary. Priest Brand is a serious and harsh preacher of human freedom and religiosity, on his maximalism lies the imprint of the teachings of Sern Kierkegaard.
Per Gunt, on the contrary, is looking for personal happiness and does not find. At the same time, per hardly greater humanist and poet than Brand. At the end-the beginning in the context of the aggravation of socio-political contradictions, Ibsen expects the collapse of the old world, the "revolution of the human spirit." In the drama about Julian, the agricultural and Galilean apostate, he claims the upcoming synthesis of the spiritual and carnal begins in man.
Ibsen's most popular play in Russia has become a “puppet house”. The play should not be perceived as social, for ibsen, the universal human problem of freedom is important. The first drama, written by Ibsen after the “puppet house” - “Ghosts”, she uses many motives of “Branda”: heredity, religion, idealism. In "Ghosts" critics notes a significant influence of French naturalism.
In the late Players of Ibsen, subtext is complicated, the subtlety of psychological pattern increases. The theme of a “strong man” is made to the fore. Ibsen becomes merciless to his heroes. Ibsen died from the blow.
Detailed biography.