Digital humanities has opened up new avenues for Ibsen scholarship, and recent developments within the field of e-research methodologies have formed a point of departure for questioning conventional assumptions. This book explores the early reception of Ibsen on the German stage from a quantitative angle using the performance database IbsenStage as a research tool. Visualization techniques are adopted as a means to prepare data for analysis and identify the major patterns in the production history, and data interrogation methodology is used to trigger new lines of enquiry.

Jens-Morten Hanssen is Associate Professor at the National Library of Norway. He earned a PhD degree in Ibsen studies at the University of Oslo in 2018 with a doctoral thesis on the early reception of Ibsen on the German stage. During 20012014, he was the editor of the trilingual website Ibsen.nb.no (formerly known as Ibsen.net). In 1997, he earned a cand. philol. degree in German literature with a thesis on Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann.Since 2000, he has been heavily involved in building research infrastructure in Ibsen studies. His publications cover a wide range of topics related to Ibsens oeuvre.Recent article publications: The Introduction of Bjørnson and Ibsen on the German Stage (2016), Otto Brahms Ibsen Cycle at the Lessingtheater in Berlin (2015), The Fusion of the Man and His Work: John Gabriel Borkman with Ibsens Mask (2014)