He grew up in the small costatal town of Skien , as the oldest of 5 children .His father Knud Ibsen , was a sucesfull bussines man , whils her mother Marichen Ibsen was an avi paintor and theater lover.
When Ibsen was 8 , his fathers bissiness failed and the family was thrown into poverty ,as a result they had to move to a farm near his hometown .
When he turned 15 ,He stopped going to school and started working for an apothecary in Grims, while there he utilised his free time to write poetry and paint.
In 1849 he wrote his first play , titled Catilina inspiered by the works of William Shakespeare.
Then he met Ole Bull , a theathre manager who ffered him a job as the manager and writer of a theatre in Bergen, this position helped him learn more about his craft .
In 1857 , Ibsen started running a theare in Christiania ,he neglected this theatre and mismagaged it, while at the same time writing the satrical look at marige play , Love´s comedy in 1862.
Ibsen moved to Christiania (later known as Oslo) in 1850 to prepare for university examinations to study at the University of Christiania.
Living in the capital, he made friends with other writers and artistic types. One of these friends, Ole Schulerud, paid for the publication of Ibsen's first play Catilina, which failed to get much notice
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