August Strindberg Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Johan August Strindberg (About this sound listen (help·info); 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries his renown is mostly as a playwright.The Royal Theatre rejected his first major play, Master Olof, in 1872; it was not until 1881, at the age of 32, that its première at the New Theatre gave him his theatrical breakthrough. In his plays The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), and Creditors (1889), he created naturalistic dramas that – building on the established accomplishments of Henrik Ibsen's prose problem plays while rejecting their use of the structure of the well-made play – responded to the call-to-arms of Émile Zola's manifesto "Naturalism in the Theatre" (1881) and the example set by André Antoine's newly established Théâtre Libre (opened 1887). In Miss Julie, characterisation replaces plot as the predominant dramatic element (in contrast to melodrama and the well-made play) and the determining role of heredity and the environment on the "vacillating, disintegrated" characters is emphasized. Strindberg modelled his short-lived Scandinavian Experimental Theatre (1889) in Copenhagen on Antoine's theatre and he explored the theory of Naturalism in his essays "On Psychic Murder" (1887), "On Modern Drama and the Modern Theatre" (1889), and a preface to Miss Julie, the last of which is probably the best-known statement of the principles of the theatrical movement.During the 1890s he spent significant time abroad engaged in scientific experiments and studies of the occult. A series of psychotic attacks between 1894 to 1896 (referred to as his "Inferno crisis") led to his hospitalisation and return to Sweden. Under the influence of the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, he resolved after his recovery to become "the Zola of the Occult". In 1898 he returned to playwriting with To Damascus, which, like The Great Highway (1909), is a dream-play of spiritual pilgrimage. His A Dream Play (1902) – with its radical attempt to dramatise the workings of the unconscious by means of an abolition of conventional dramatic time and sp
Stockholms Lyceum, Uppsala University, Royal Institute of Technology
Nationality
Swedish
Spouse
Siri von Essen
Children
Anne-Marie Hagelin, Karin Smirnov, Kerstin Strindberg, Hans Strindberg, Greta Strindberg
Parents
Carl Oscar Strindberg, Eleonora Ulrika Norling
Siblings
Carl Axel Strindberg, Anna Strindberg, Elisabeth Strindberg, Eleonora Strindberg, Olle Strindberg, Oscar Strindberg
Nominations
Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play
Movies
Miss Julie, The Sin of Julia, Karin Månsdotter, The Dance of Death, Met vuur spelen, The Palace of Flames, De vader, Persia Undone, Dance of Death, Creditors, Dreamplay, Julie, Mademoiselle Julie, Freule Julie, Påske, The Father
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Fact
1
His play, "The Dance of Death" at the Writers Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, was awarded the 2014 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Play Production.
2
Children with Wrangel: son Hans; daughters Karin, Greta, and one who died in infancy.
3
Child with Uhl: son Karsten.
4
Child with Bosse: daughter Anne-Marie Hagelin, born 25 March 1902, died 17 August 2007, 105 years old.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Paria
1969
TV Short play
Epitaph für einen König
1969
TV Movie play "Karl XII"
Faderen
1969
TV Movie play
Fordringsägare
1968
TV Movie play
Fräulein Julie
1968
TV Movie play
Påsk
1968
TV Movie play
Ostern
1968
TV Movie play
Spøgelsessonaten
1968
TV Movie play "Spöksonaten"
ITV Playhouse
1968
TV Series by - 1 episode
Holländarn
1967
TV Movie play
De vader
1967
TV Movie play
Paarungen
1967
play "The Dance of Death"
Första varningen
1967
TV Movie play
Moderskärlek
1967
TV Movie play
Neiti Julie
1967
TV Movie play "Fröken Julie"
Fadren
1967
TV Movie play
Nach Damaskus
1966
TV Movie play
Leke med ilden
1966
TV Movie play "Leka med elden"
Festival
1966
TV Series play - 1 episode
Leg med ilden
1966
TV Movie play "Leka med elden"
ITV Play of the Week
1966
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Der Scheiterhaufen
1966
TV Movie play
Hemsöborna
1966
TV Mini-Series novel - 7 episodes
Theatre 625
1965
TV Series play - 1 episode
Gustav Vasa
1965
TV Movie play
Paria
1965
TV Movie play
Fräulein Julie
1965
TV Movie play
Erik XIV
1965
TV Movie play "Erik XIV"
Teatro del sábado
1965
TV Series 1 episode
Båndet
1964
TV Movie based on play
Ensimmäinen varoitus
1964
TV Movie play "Första varningen"
Totentanz
1964
TV Movie play
Wetterleuchten
1964
TV Movie play
Bandet
1964
TV Movie play
Kustaa III
1964
TV Movie play "Gustav III"
Das Band
1963
TV Movie play "Bandet"
Der Vater
1963
TV Movie play
Ett drömspel
1963
TV Movie play
Playdate
1963
TV Series play "The Stranger" - 1 episode
The Father
1962
TV Movie play "Fadren"
Teatterituokio
1962
TV Series play "Första varningen" - 1 episode
Valborgsafton i Fagervik
1962
TV Movie play
Pakinateatteri
1962
TV Series play "Den starkare" - 1 episode
Dödsdansen
1962
TV Movie play
Paria
1962
TV Movie play
The Ghost Sonata
1962
TV Movie play "Spöksonaten"
Fordringsägare
1961
TV Movie play "Fordringsägare"
Spooksonate
1961
TV Movie play
Frøken Julie
1960
TV Movie play "Fröken Julie"
Le lien
1960
TV Movie play
Den starkare
1960
TV Short play
Play of the Week
1960
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Kuolemantanssi
1960
TV Movie play "Dödsdansen"
Strindberg on Love
1960
TV Movie plays "Fröken Julie" and "Der starkare"
Oväder
1960
TV Movie play
Paria
1959
TV Movie play "Paria"
Ein Traumspiel
1959
TV Movie play "Drömspelet"
Grande Teatro Tupi
1959
TV Series 2 episodes
Fröken Julie
1959
TV Movie play
Double Bill: Pariah and the Stronger
1958
TV Short play "Pariah" / play "The Stronger"
Påsk
1958
TV Movie play
Svarta handsken
1957
TV Movie play
ITV Television Playhouse
1957
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Frøken Julie
1956
TV Movie play "Fröken Julie"
Ett dockhem
1956
novel "Ett dockhem"
Hemsöborna
1955
novel
Leka med elden
1955
TV Movie play
Of Love and Lust
1955
novel "Mot betalning"
Karin Månsdotter
1954
play "Erik XIV"
Miss Julie
1951
play
Fireside Theatre
1949
TV Series story - 1 episode
La danse de mort
1948
play
El pecado de Julia
1946
based on the play "Fröken Julie" / play
Hemsöborna
1944
novel
Synd
1928
from the play by
Giftas
1926
novel "Ett dockhem"
Kagayakeru tobirâ
1925
story
Högre ändamål
1922
novel
Fräulein Julie
1922
play
Júlia kisasszony
1919
play "Fröken Julie"
Kameraden
1919
play "Kamraterna"
Rausch
1919
play "Brott och brott"
Hemsöborna
1919
novel - play
Des Goldes Fluch
1917
additional material
Plebey
1915
play "Fröken Julie"
The Palace of Flames
1912
Fadren
1912
play
Fröken Julie
1912
Short play
August Strindberg Project
play pre-production
Creditors
2015
after
Miss Julie
2014
play
Faderen
2014
TV Movie play
Fröken Julie
2013
novel
Julie
2013
play
Signorina Giulia
2012
TV Movie play
Stronger
2012/I
Short play "The Stronger"
Persia Undone
2011
Video writer
Mademoiselle Julie
2011
TV Movie
Julie
2011/I
story
Miss Julie
2009
play
Agnes Moorehead Is God!
2008
Video short play "The Stranger"
Fordringsägare
2008
TV Movie play
Spöksonaten
2007
TV Movie play
The Stronger
2007/I
Short play
Dödsdansen I-II
2007
TV Movie plays
The Stronger
2007/II
Short original play
Mademoiselle Y
2006
Short story
Julie
2005
TV Movie after: "Fröken Julie"
The Stronger
2004
Short written by
Stronger
2004
Short story
Den starkare
2004
TV Movie play
Leka med elden
2004
TV Movie play
Noite de São João
2003
play "Fröken Julie"
Gospodjica Julija
2002
Video play
Otac
2001
TV Movie play
Christmas Eve
2000
Short
¡Qué grande es el teatro!
1999
TV Series 1 episode
Miss Julie
1999
play "Fröken Julie"
Den starkare
1999
Short play "... Den starkare"
Vasasagan
1998
TV Movie plays
Le bassin de J.W.
1997
text "Coram Populo" and "Petit Cathécisme à l'usage de la classe inférieure"
O Pai
1997
TV Movie play
Dödsdansen
1996
TV Movie play
Play Strindberg
1996
TV Movie play
El pare
1996
TV Movie play
I kataigida
1996
TV Movie play 'Oväder'
Performance
1995
TV Series play "Fröken Julie" - 1 episode
Drømspel
1994
play "Ett Droemspel"
Võlausaldajad
1992
novel
Pita
1991
play
Kronbruden
1990
TV Movie play
Kreditorer
1990
TV Movie play
Az erösebb
1989
Short play "Den starkare"
A Dança da Morte
1989
TV Movie play
Fordringsägare
1988
play
Påsk
1988
TV Movie play
Oväder
1988
TV Movie play
En far
1988
TV Movie play "Fadren"
De vader
1987
TV Movie
Theatre Night
1985-1987
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
La voz humana
1986
TV Series play - 1 episode
Miss Julie
1986
TV Movie play "Fröken Julie"
Gospodjica Julija
1985
TV Movie novel "Gospodjica Julija"
Naimakauppoja
1985
TV Movie short stories
Mademoiselle Julie
1984
TV Movie play
Mäster Olof
1983
TV Mini-Series play
La danse de mort
1982
TV Movie play "Dödsdansen"
Den sterkeste
1982
TV Movie
Kamraterna
1982
TV Movie play
Pelikanen
1982
TV Movie play
Haláltánc
1981
TV Movie play
Estudio 1
TV Series play - 3 episodes, 1970 - 1981 writer - 1 episode, 1981