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 2001-2014, 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 Ibsen's oeuvre. Recent article publications: "The Introduction of Bjornson and Ibsen on the German Stage" (2016), "Otto Brahm's Ibsen Cycle at the Lessingtheater in Berlin" (2015), "The Fusion of the Man and His Work: John Gabriel Borkman with Ibsen's Mask" (2014)