Helge Krog
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Personal life
Krog was born in Kristiania, the son of jurist Fredrik Arentz Krog and Ida Cecilie Thoresen.[1] His mother, a well-known feminist, was the first female student in Norway in 1882,[2] and his father's sister, Gina Krog, was a central figure in the Norwegian women's suffrage movement.[3] He was married to writer and publicist Eli Meyer from 1912 to 1947, and to actress Tordis Maurstad from 1949.[1]
Career
Krog graduated as cand.oecon. in 1911. He worked for the newspaper Verdens Gang from 1912, and from 1914 as a theatre and literary critic. He later worked for the newspapers Tidens Tegn, Arbeiderbladet and Dagbladet.[1] He issued the article collection Script error: No such module "Lang". in 1929 (lit. Opininons on books and writers), and a second collection, Script error: No such module "Lang". in 1933.[4]
His first play was the press comedy Script error: No such module "Lang". from 1917,[1] which was staged at several Scandinavian theatres.[4] The play was a great success at Nationaltheatret with almost sixty performances, Gerda Ring playing the "shop girl" character, and August Oddvar the "young journalist".[5] The play På solsiden from 1927 was later basis for a film (in 1956).[4] Other plays were Konkylien from 1929, and Don Juan (together with Sigurd Hoel, from 1930).[1] The plays Underveis (1931) and Opbrudd (1936) treat women's role in society and were also of interest during the feminist movement of the 1970s.[1]
During the interwar period Krog became known as a member of the "radical triumvirate", along with Arnulf Øverland and Sigurd Hoel.[1]
World War II
During the last part of World War II Krog lived in exile in Sweden, where he contributed to the magazine Håndslag.[6] He published, under pseudonym, the critical article "Nazi-Tysklands krigspotensial og den 6-te kolonne i Norge" in 1944,[7][8] an article which was subject to much debate, also after the war.[9] The pamphlet was reissued in an expanded version in 1946, questioning the contributions from the Norwegian large-scale industry to the warfare of Nazi Germany (Template:Langx).[1]
He died in Oslo.
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