The Ibsen Stage Festival takes on Oslo

13/07/2006 :: The home of Peder Günth whose life inspired Henrik Ibsen to write "Peer Gynt" in 1867, is open to the public thanks to the 27-year-old who restored the estate. + More

24/05/2006 :: Precisely one hundred years after Henrik Ibsen passed away quietly in his apartment at Arbins gate 1 in Oslo, the playwright's last home is opened in its original state to the public. Concurrently, the book "Things about Ibsen" is launched and the exhibit "Henrik Ibsen: On the contrary!" opens, providing an exploration of Ibsen's literary challenge to the status quo. + More

All but one of Ibsen`s 26 dramas had their world premières in Ibsen`s own lifetime. The first ten world premières were in Norway. But in 1876-77 Ibsen`s breakthrough as a world dramatist was a fact. On 14 November 1877 Pillars of Society ... + More

Ibsen wrote poems all through his life as a writer, but mainly during the first half, up to 1875. After that he almost gave up verse as a form of literature. Ibsen's very earliest poems – written while he was living in Grimstad – were ... + More