Ibsen on the German Stage 1876-1918

A Quantitative Study
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-8233-8271-3
Verlag: Narr Dr. Gunter

Buch, Englisch, Band 53, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: Forum Modernes Theater

Digital humanities has opened up new avenues for Ibsen scholarship, and recent developments within the field of e-research methodologies have formed a point of departure for questioning conventional assumptions. This book explores the early reception of Ibsen on the German stage from a quantitative angle using the performance database IbsenStage as a research tool. Visualization techniques are adopted as a means to prepare data for analysis and identify the major patterns in the production history, and data interrogation methodology is used to trigger new lines of enquiry.

The study sheds new light on the greatest enigma of the early German reception of Ibsen: What caused A Doll's House, the play that eventually propelled Ibsen into global fame, to fail so blatantly on the German stage at the beginning of the 1880s, after the resounding success of Pillars of Society? Initially, Ibsen was treated as a commercial playwright. This changed in the late 1880s, when Ghosts was embraced by the avant-garde. At the same time, Ibsen was reintroduced as a commercially viable playwright, and it was only then that Ibsen began to have a lasting impact on the German stage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanssen, Jens-Morten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Jens-Morten Hanssen is Associate Professor at the National Library of Norway. He earned a PhD degree in Ibsen studies at the University of Oslo in 2018 with a doctoral thesis on the early reception of Ibsen on the German stage. During 2001-2014, he was the editor of the trilingual website Ibsen.nb.no (formerly known as Ibsen.net). In 1997, he earned a cand. philol. degree in German literature with a thesis on Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann.

Since 2000, he has been heavily involved in building research infrastructure in Ibsen studies. His publications cover a wide range of topics related to Ibsen's oeuvre.

Recent article publications: "The Introduction of Bjornson and Ibsen on the German Stage" (2016), "Otto Brahm's Ibsen Cycle at the Lessingtheater in Berlin" (2015), "The Fusion of the Man and His Work: John Gabriel Borkman with Ibsen's Mask" (2014)