Mot Dag

Mot Dag (German: Towards the Day ) was a communist association of Norwegian intellectuals that published a magazine of the same name. She played a major role in spreading 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 to the Labor Party until 1925 and to the Communist Party from 1927 to 1928 . In the following years Mot Dag was self-employed.

In 1929 members founded the Fram publishing house , in which the encyclopedia Arbeidernes Leksikon appeared. It was the first encyclopedia outside the Soviet Union aimed at the working class .

In the mid-1930s , the members tried to establish a new workers' party, but were unsuccessful. Mot Dag disbanded in 1936.

Members

In its prime, the organization had around 200 members, and in 1936 it still had around 100 members. Many writers were among the members, including Helge Krog , Arnulf Øverland and Inger Hagerup . Other members were the filmmaker Olav Dargard , the later professor Johan Vogt and the politicians Einar Gerhardsen , Oscar Torp , John Lyng , Vilhelm and Karl Evang as well as Trond Hegna . After Erling Falk's resignation, the latter was also chairman of Mot Dag for health reasons. The former member best known in Germany is the future Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt .

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• Horst Bien and others: Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literatures, Leipzig 1978