Suzannah Ibsen

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

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

The family moved to Bergen, where Hans Conrad Thoresen took a position as provost in the Korskirken. Magdalene Thoresen, even a well-known writer, entertained in Bergen a " literary salon ". After Henrik Ibsen, who at that time theater director of " Det norske Theater" was his first major success with the play " på Gildet Solhoug " celebrated ( The Feast of Solhoug ), he was invited to the literary meetings. At these meetings, he met the daughter of the house know.

Suzannah Thoresen and Ibsen became engaged in 1856 and married on 18 June 1856. The couple 's only child, Sigurd Ibsen went (born December 23, 1859 ), out.

Suzannah Ibsen did as a literary consultant, particularly in the design of women's roles in her husband's work out. So she sat through that in Ibsen's drama " Et dukkehjem " ( A Doll Home ) Nora leaves her husband Helmer. In 1858 she translated the play " Count Waldemar " by the German writer Gustav Freytag for the " Kristiania norsk theater " into Norwegian.

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