Nora breaks out: The dramatic end of a doll's house in Copenhagen!

Nora breaks out: The dramatic end of a doll's house in Copenhagen!

Kopenhagen, Dänemark - On December 21, 1879, Henrik Ibsen's play "Nora or a Puppenheim" was premiered in the Royal Theater Copenhagen. This groundbreaking work, which is entitled "Et Dukkehjem" in the Norwegian original, addresses the oppression of women and her search for identity in a patriarchal society. The protagonist Nora was treated like a beautiful doll by her husband Torvald Helmer and her father without giving her the opportunity to live an independent life. The work has conquered a permanent place in theater history since its premiere and is often seen as a milestone of feminist literature because it remains relevant to its central themes of freedom and self -determination. This describes the website Wikipedia .

In the play that plays in the Christmas period, Nora is confronted with her past when she recorded a secret loan to save her sick husband. She had to falsify the signature of her dying father. The lawyer Krogstad, who blackmails her so that Torvald does not fire him, brings the fragile structure of her marriage to falter. Torvald, on the other hand, treats Nora more like a child than as an equivalent partner, which leads to a final break than he discovers her secrets. These historical turns underline the social norms of the time that expected women obedience and submissiveness. During the dramatic turn of the play, Nora is forced to question these conventions, which ultimately leads to the crucial moment in which she leaves her husband and children to find her own life, as well as on Volksblatt is reported.