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August Strindberg

Swedish writer, dramatist and artist whom Knut Hamsun met in Paris in 1894 and regarded as an important literary contemporary.

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People August Strindberg Knew

Relationships with other people, with sources for each connection.

Illustrated portrait of Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

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Met · 1894

The Hamsun Society chronology records that Hamsun met August Strindberg in Paris in 1894.

— Om forfatteren; Kort kronologi

Who August Strindberg Inspired

People who found inspiration in August Strindberg’s work.

Illustrated portrait of Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

The influence ran from childhood to the end: at nine Bergman staged puppet productions of August Strindberg's plays with a toy magic lantern, speaking all the parts, and he directed Strindberg on the professional stage all his life. He was rehearsing Strindberg's The Dance of Death at the Royal Dramatic Theatre on the day of his 1976 tax arrest. The chamber-play form Strindberg pioneered is the scale of Bergman's mature films.

— Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography (1988); Ingmar Bergman

Connections and Sources

August Strindberg’s connections to people, places, and works, with the sources behind each one.

Influenced

Ingmar Bergman

The influence ran from childhood to the end: at nine Bergman staged puppet productions of August Strindberg's plays with a toy magic lantern, speaking all the parts, and he directed Strindberg on the professional stage all his life. He was rehearsing Strindberg's The Dance of Death at the Royal Dramatic Theatre on the day of his 1976 tax arrest. The chamber-play form Strindberg pioneered is the scale of Bergman's mature films.

— Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography (1988); Ingmar Bergman

Met · 1894

Knut Hamsun

The Hamsun Society chronology records that Hamsun met August Strindberg in Paris in 1894.

— Om forfatteren; Kort kronologi

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References

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  1. 1Om forfatteren

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