Hans Heiberg was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, theatre critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, translator and theatre director.
15 Facts About Hans Heiberg
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Hans Heiberg was a nephew of playwright and theatre director Gunnar Heiberg, physician Inge Heiberg and psychiatrist Henrik Dedichen, and a second cousin of Supreme Court Justice Axel Heiberg, architect Bernt Heiberg and railway director Edvard Heiberg.
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Hans Heiberg finished his secondary education in 1922, and finished his law studies with the cand.
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Hans Heiberg worked as a foreign correspondent for Dagbladet and Arbeiderbladet, in Great Britain and Ireland in 1929, in Finland in 1930, in Japan and China in 1932, and in Paris from 1938 to 1939.
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Hans Heiberg worked as a literary critic and theatre critic for Arbeiderbladet between 1931 and 1940.
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Hans Heiberg arrived at Grini on 4 May 1945, only days before Germany's capitulation and the liberation of the camp.
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Hans Heiberg was employed by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as theatre director for Radioteatret from 1952 to 1973.
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Hans Heiberg was a member of Norges Kunstnerrad from 1946 to 1949 and from 1956 to 1961, and of the Arts Council Norway from 1965 to 1972.
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Hans Heiberg was chairman of the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1946 to 1965.
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Hans Heiberg was chairman of the board for Riksteatret from 1949 to 1968.
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Hans Heiberg was chairman for Teater- og musikkritikerlaget from 1947 to 1949, De norske teatres forening from 1962 to 1964 and Norsk Teaterunion from 1961 to 1967.
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Hans Heiberg translated more than two hundred novels and plays into Norwegian language.
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Hans Heiberg wrote the two plays Broen and Minnefesten.
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Hans Heiberg wrote a biography on Henrik Ibsen in 1967, and a biography on Henrik Wergeland in 1972.
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Hans Heiberg received the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award in 1973, and became Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav in 1973.