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Three artists with one thing in common. They all chose the wrong side during the Second World War.
This week’s podcast is about cancel culture – as practiced after the war by Norwegian society. These three artists were treated very differently. One of them was imprisoned – but his works left in place. One of them was safe and sound at the heart of the Norwegian canon. And the third vanished as if he had never existed.
The sculptor is Wilhelm Rasmussen
The composer is Christian Sinding
The author is Knut Hamsun
CONTACT
Twitter: @northbynorway
Mail: northbynorway@gmail.com
EPISODE PHOTO
In 1926, a full-scale cardboard model of the Saga Column was erected in front of Stortinget, the Norwegian parliament building, to test public opinion. When the stone column was finally erected outside the Elveseter Hotel, the lion at its crown was replaced by one of King Harald Fairhair.
Photographer: Edmund Neupert. Owned by Oslo byarkiv. (Licence: CC BY-SA)
MUSIC
00:00North by Norway
written on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle, using the Norwegian folksong ‘I Ola-dalom, i Ola-tjønn’
03:10Sagasøyla
written on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle
07:45Nocturne
Edvard Grieg, op. 54, no. 4
performed on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle
14:50Rustle of Spring
Christian Sinding
performed on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle
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