Det guddommelige proletarbarn, der i en alder af 13 blev genstand for Johan Ludvig Heibergs opvartning og kærlighed, var tidens ubestridte primadonna, som alle beundrede og tilbad og forelskede sig i, flere endda så voldsomt, at det gav dybe depressioner eller endte med selvmord i tidens tragiske stil. Kierkegaard, der her forstod at tempere sin lidenskab, fulgte hende fra teatersalens mørke. Da hun som 34-årig genoptrådte i rollen som Julie i Shakespeares stykke, skrev han Krisen og en Krise i en Skuespillerindes Liv, der i 1848 blev trykt som feuilleton i avisen Fædrelandet under pseudonyment Inter et Inter.		The divine proletarian child, who at the age of 13 became the object of Johan Ludvig Heiberg's courting and love, was the uncontested prima donna of the age. She was admired, worshipped and fallen in love with by all, some so violently that the result was deep depression or suicide in the tragic style of the day. Kierkegaard, who here understood how to temper his passion, followed her from the darkness of the theater. When she re-appeared in the role of Shakespeare's Juliet at the age of 34, he wrote The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress, which appeared as a series in the newspaper Fædrelandet under the pseudonym Inter et Inter.

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