Mot Dag

Mot Dag ( German: The Day contrary ) was a communist association of Norwegian intellectuals who published an eponymous magazine. You played a big part in the dissemination of Marxist ideas in Norway.

History

Mot Dag was founded in 1922 by students in Oslo. The founding members included Erling Falk, Harald Viggo Hansteen and Sigurd Hoel. The organization belonged until 1925 to the Labour Party and from 1927 to 1928 with the Communist Party. In the following years Mot Dag was self-employed.

1929 members founded the Fram -Verlag, in which the encyclopaedia work ern leksikon appeared. It was the first encyclopedia outside the Soviet Union, which was aimed at the working class.

Mid -1930s, the members tried to establish a new workers' party, but were unsuccessful. 1936 sparked Mot Dag up.

Members

The organization had at their best time about 200, in 1936 it was about 100 members. Among the members were many writers, including Helge Krog, Arnulf Øverland and Inger Hagerup. Other members were the filmmakers Dargard Olav, who later became Professor Johan Vogt and politicians Einar Gerhardsen Oscar Torp, John Lyng, Vilhelm and Karl Evang and Trond Hegna. The latter was after leaving Erling Falk for health reasons also chairman of Mot Dag. The best known in Germany former member is the later German Chancellor Willy Brandt.

Swell

  • Horst Bien uA: Meyers Taschenlexikon North European literatures, Leipzig 1978
  • Marxist journal
  • Policy ( Norway)
  • Literature ( Norwegian)
  • Marxist organization
  • Magazine (Norway )
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