{{Short description|Norwegian writer and director}} {{Use dmy dates | date=April 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Hans Heiberg | image = 39205 Hans Heiberg.jpg | alt = | caption = Hans Heiberg in 1954 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|1|28|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kristiania, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|1978|12|6|1904|1|28|df=yes}} | death_place = | other_names = | spouse = | parents = Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg | children = | relatives = | occupation = {{flatlist| * Journalist * literary critic * theatre critic * essayist * novelist * playwright * translator * theatre director }} | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | awards = {{unbulleted list | Arts Council Norway Honorary Award (1973)|Order of St Olav (1973) |Fritt Ord Honorary Award (1979; posthumously) }} }} '''Hans Heiberg''' (28 January 1904 – 6 December 1978) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, theatre critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, translator and theatre director.

==Early and personal life== Heiberg was born in Kristiania as son of city manager Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg (1860&ndash;1946) and Christiane Jeanette Aimée Dedichen. He was married to Alette Elisabeth Wiland from 1929 to her death in 1941, and to nurse Sigrid Berner Høy from 1942. He was a nephew of playwright and theatre director Gunnar Heiberg, physician Inge Heiberg and psychiatrist Henrik Dedichen,<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Hans Heiberg |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Thoralf |last=Berg |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Hans_Heiberg/utdypning |language=Norwegian|accessdate=13 April 2009}}</ref> and a second cousin of Supreme Court Justice Axel Heiberg, architect Bernt Heiberg and railway director Edvard Heiberg.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2007|title=Heiberg|first=Terje|last=Bratberg|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/Heiberg|language=Norwegian|accessdate=23 April 2009}}</ref>

==Career== Heiberg finished his secondary education in 1922, and finished his law studies with the cand.jur. degree in 1927. He 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.<ref name=nbl/> He worked as a literary critic and theatre critic for ''Arbeiderbladet'' between 1931 and 1940.<ref name=snl/>

During the late phase of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested in Lillehammer and sent to Grini concentration camp. He arrived at Grini on 4 May 1945, only days before Germany's capitulation and the liberation of the camp.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Ottosen, Kristian|editor-link=Kristian Ottosen|title=Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940–1945|edition=1st|year=1995|publisher=Universitetsforlaget|location=Oslo|language=Norwegian|isbn=82-15-00288-9|page=281}}</ref>

After the war he was a literary critic and theatre critic for ''Verdens Gang'' from 1945 to 1952.<ref name=snl/> He was employed by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as theatre director for Radioteatret from 1952 to 1973.<ref name=nbl/> He was a member of ''Norges Kunstnerråd'' from 1946 to 1949 and from 1956 to 1961, and of the Arts Council Norway from 1965 to 1972. He was chairman of the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1946 to 1965. He was chairman of the board for Riksteatret from 1949 to 1968. He 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.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia |year=2007 |title=Hans Heiberg |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Hans_Heiberg |language=Norwegian | accessdate=13 April 2009 }}</ref>

He translated more than two hundred novels and plays into Norwegian language.<ref name=nbl/> One of his translations was the radio play ''Dickie Dick Dickens'', which was elected "All-time radio play" by Norwegian radio listeners in 2001.<ref name=dickie>{{cite web |url=http://www.nrk.no/programmer/radio/radioteatret/1272917.html |title=Dickie Dick Dickens - tidenes radioteater! |year=2001 |publisher=Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=18 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021175312/http://www.nrk.no/programmer/radio/radioteatret/1272917.html |archive-date=21 October 2012 }}</ref> Among his literary works are the satirical novels ''Gutten i jacket'' (1931) and ''Ta den ring og la den vandre &ndash;'' (1934). He wrote the two plays ''Broen'' (1945) and ''Minnefesten'' (1946). A selection of his literary critics was issued in ''Peilinger'' (1950). He wrote a biography on Henrik Ibsen in 1967, and a biography on Henrik Wergeland in 1972. He received the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award in 1973,<ref name=snl/> and became Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1973.<ref name=nbl/> In 1979 he posthumously received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fritt-ord.no/no/priser/category/fritt_ords_honnor/|title=Priser – Fritt Ords Honnør|publisher=Fritt Ord|language=Norwegian|accessdate=22 May 2010|archive-date=19 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619141017/http://fritt-ord.no/no/priser/category/fritt_ords_honnor/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-culture}} {{succession box |before=Jens Gunderssen |title=Director of Radioteatret |years=1952–1973 |after=Gerhard Knoop}} {{s-ach|aw}} {{s-bef | before = Klaus Egge}} {{s-ttl | title = Recipient of the Norsk kulturråds ærespris | years = 1973}} {{s-aft | after = Hans Jonas Henriksen}} {{end}}

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