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Ibsen's mother, Marichen Altenburg, was the model for Peer Gynt's mother, Åse The portrayal of the Gynt family is known to be based on Henrik Ibsen's own family—the intertwined Ibsen / Paus family of Skien —and childhood memories; in a letter to Georg Brandes , Ibsen wrote that his own family and childhood had served "as some kind of model ...
A silhouette of the family in Altenburggården (ca. 1820). Marichen to the far right, her parents in the centre. It is the only existing portrait of her. Marichen Cornelia Martine Altenburg (24 April 1799 – 3 June 1869) was the mother of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and is known as the model for several characters in some of Ibsen's most famous plays, including Åse in Peer Gynt. [1]
"Per Gynt", illustration by Peter Nicolai Arbo from Norske Huldre-Eventyr og Folkesagn (1845). Per Gynt (pronounced [peːr ˈjʏnt], locally [pæːr ˈjʏnt]) is a Norwegian fairy-tale which originated in the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. [1] The story of Per Gynt is set in the historic district of Gudbrandsdal in Norway.
Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early teens, graduating to the London stage for several years and later became a noted Broadway actress. She appeared in the first American production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1906) with Richard Mansfield as Peer. She played Peer's mother, Ase, even though she was, in real life, 20 years younger than Mansfield.
Most of Ibsen's plays are set in Norway, often in bourgeois environments and places reminiscent of Skien, and he frequently drew inspiration from family members. Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt has strong surreal elements. [7] After Peer Gynt Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. Several of his later dramas were ...
In Ibsen's original play, Peer Gynt leaves Norway to become the "king of the world", but through his selfish and deceptive actions his body and soul are ruined, and he returns to his native village in shame. Eckart, however, sees Gynt as a hero who challenges the trollish, i.e. Jewish, world.
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Peer Gynt is a 1938 opera by Werner Egk to a libretto after the play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen. ... Aase, Peer Gynt's mother ; Ingrid (soprano) Mads, ...