Suzannah Ibsen

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Suzannah Ibsen

Suzannah Daae Ibsen (born June 26, 1836 in Herøy , Norway as Suzannah Daae Thoresen , † April 3, 1914 in Kristiania , then name of Oslo ) was the wife of the Norwegian writer and playwright Henrik Ibsen .

She was the daughter of the parish priest Hans Conrad Thoresen (1802-1858) and his second wife Sara Margrete Daae. After their death in childbed in 1841, he married the Danish governess of the family, Magdalene Thoresen (1819-1903).

The family moved to Bergen , where Hans Conrad Thoresen took up a position as provost in the Kreuzkirche . Magdalene Thoresen, herself a well-known writer, ran a “literary salon” in Bergen. After Henrik Ibsen, who was the theater director of the "Det norske Theater" at the time, celebrated his first great success with the play Gilden på Solhoug (The Festival of Solhaug), he was invited to the literary meeting. At these meetings in 1856 he met the daughter of the house.

Suzannah Thoresen and Henrik Ibsen got engaged two years later and married on July 18, 1858. The only child Sigurd Ibsen (* December 23, 1859, † April 14, 1930) resulted from the marriage .

Suzannah Ibsen excelled as a literary advisor, especially in shaping the roles of women in her husband's work. So she managed to get Nora to leave her husband Helmer in Ibsen's drama Et dukkehjem ( Nora or a doll's house ). In 1858 she translated the play Graf Waldemar by the German writer Gustav Freytag for the "Kristiania norsk Theater" into Norwegian.

Suzannah and Henrik Ibsen are buried on Vår Frelsers Gravlund in Oslo.

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SURNAME Ibsen, Suzannah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thoresen, Daae (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian woman, wife of the Norwegian writer and playwright Henrik Ibsen
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Herøy , Norway
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1914
Place of death Oslo