Herman Bang

Herman Bang was born in 1857 in Asserballe, on the island of Als, the son of a pastor who would die insane. He lost his mother in 1871, then lived with his grandfather, the physician Ole Bang, failed to become an actor and succeeded in journalism. A homosexual, he met with the hostility of his time; expelled from Berlin in 1886 for lèse-majesté, he lived for a time in Vienna and Prague, then also worked in Paris for the theatre of Ibsen and Strindberg. He died in 1912 in Ogden, Utah, during a reading tour, aged fifty-four.

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• NovelKatinkaVed VejenHerman Bang · 1886LiteraturePublic domain