Gunnar Heiberg

Gunnar Heiberg was born in Christiania on 18 November 1857, the son of a judge. He made his debut as a poet in 1878 and from 1884 to 1888 directed the national stage in Bergen, which he left when it refused to stage a play by Bjørnson. As Paris correspondent of Verdens Gang from 1897 to 1901, he covered the Dreyfus affair. On 16 January 1905 he delivered a speech against the union with Sweden. Britannica regards him as the most notable Norwegian dramatist after Ibsen. He died in Oslo in 1929.

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• TheatreThe BalconyBalkonenGunnar Heiberg · 1894LiteraturePublic domain