Korsaren

Korsaren ('The Corsair') was a Norwegian satirical magazine published between 1879 and 1926.

History and profile

Korsaren was established in 1879 by Jacob Breda Bull under the name Krydseren, mimicking an older publication of the same name. Until 1883, the magazine was published anonymously, from then on Schmidt was the editor. He ran the magazine until 1892. Bull sold the magazine in 1894, and it was relaunched as Korsaren.^[1] It was published in Kristiania, its editor-in-chief from 1894 to 1903 was Egil Hartmann,^[2] and its staff of caricaturists included Andreas Bloch and Gustav Lærum. In 1907, Korsaren got a sharper political profile with the Norwegian writer Hans Jæger and the Danish anarchist Jean Jacques Ipsen as editors. The corsair was to work against social democratic alliance politics and state parliamentarism. This organ came in ten issues, and was followed by Revolten, which came in eight issues.

Korsaren went defunct in 1926.^[3][4]

References

1. Henriksen, Petter (ed.). "Krydseren". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
2. Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Egil Olaf Hartmann". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
3. Henriksen, Petter (ed.). "Korsaren". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
4. Peter Brooker; Sascha Bru; Andrew Thacker; Christian Weikop (21 February 2013). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940. Oxford University Press. p. 646. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6. Retrieved 22 November 2014.