Magdalene Thoresen
Anna Magdalene Thoresen ( born June 3, 1819 in Fredericia / Denmark, † March 28, 1903 ) was a Danish-Norwegian writer and mother of Henrik Ibsen.
Life
Magdalene was the daughter of Bill Boatman Thomas Nielsen Krag, † 1846, and Anne Kristine Pederssen. Because of the financial situation of their poor parents, Magdalene grew up with her grandmother. When she was 14 years old, died the grandmother, and she moved back in with their parents. Since her childhood, she liked to read and wrote poems. At the age of 20, she began training as a teacher in Copenhagen. In 1842, she moved to Norway to accept a job as a tutor in the widowed Reverend Hans Conrad Thoresen in the community Herøy.
A year later she married the now provost appointed Thoresen and moved to Bergen with him and his daughter Suzannah. He encouraged her artistic development. She traveled to Copenhagen in 1853, Johan Ludvig Heiberg where they met. Further journeys have taken her to Germany, Brussels, Paris and London. In Bergen they had contacts with Bishop Jacob Neumann, Lydians say Hans Holmeboe, Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne.
In the 1850s, Magdalene Thoresen supported the National Movement in Bergen. She was at the foundation of the " Det norskeTheater " here, wrote theater reviews for the " Bergenske Blade" and anonymously drama plays for the theater. With the help of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, she released her first poems. In 1856, her step-daughter Suzannah married the writer and playwright Hendrik Ibsen.
Criticism
Hans Marquardt, editor of the East German people band in the spring (Leipzig 1974, p 566 ), writes about the author: " It is one of (...) the most popular performers of the Norwegian farmers and fishermen life, and some of their stories can be in language and composition in addition to those of the great Norwegian master ( Bjornson ) claim. (...) Magdalene Thoresen could (...) with their first collection Fortaellinger (stories, 1863) immediately conquer a place of honor among the Norwegian writers of their time. As the real masterpiece of the writer (...) applies the narrative Luknegaarden ( the Luknehof, 1873). yet more than Bjornson are the peasant figures here hard, stubborn and tenacious natures (...) ".
Works
- Fortællinger (1863 )
- Nyerere fortællinger (1873 ) ( Recent stories )
- Livsbilleder (1877 )
- Herluf Nordal (1879 )
- Fra midnatssolens country (1886 )
- Billed fra midnatssolens country ( pictures from the land of the midnight sun); Volume I, 1884; Volume II 1888
- Digte (1887 )
Spectacles
Swell
- Norsk forfatter lexicon, 1814-1880
- Irgens Johan Hansen: Magdalene Thoresen. Samtiden, 1890.