August Strindberg
Noun
Meaning
Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912)
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Detail of mural in honour of August Strindberg in Stockholm, at the Rådmansgatan subway station Strindberg wanted to attain what he called "greater Naturalism."
Literature Authors connected to Stockholm include the poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795), novelist and dramatist August Strindberg (1849–1912), and novelist Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941), all of whom made Stockholm part of their works.
The Swedish Composer Ture Rangström dedicated his first Symphony, which was finished in 1914, to August Strindberg in memoriam.
Tax evasion charges On 30 January 1976, while rehearsing August Strindberg ’s Dance of Death at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, he was arrested by two plainclothes police officers and charged with income tax evasion.
They looked back to Swedish playwright August Strindberg and German actor and dramatist Frank Wedekind as precursors of their dramaturgical experiments.