( Norwegian: ''Street Newspaper'') is a countercultural magazine. It was first produced by an

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

collective in 1970 at

Hjelmsgate 3 Hjelmsgate 3 is a self-managed social centre in Oslo, Norway. The wooden house was constructed in 1858 and from the late 1960s onwards it has been a central node in the Norwegian counterculture. History Hjelmsgate 3 was built in 1858 to be us ...

in Oslo and focuses on anti-authoritarian topics. In it heyday in the early 1980s, an issue examining the stolen rubbish of two prime ministerial candidates sold over 20,000 copies. In 2020, a book celebrated 50 years of the magazine.

History

was first produced at Hjelmsgate 3 in 1970, as an

magazine, released monthly. The editorial collective included anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen. The anti-authoritarian magazine at first covered occultism and mysticism then changed its focus. Inspired by

Kristiania Bohemians The Kristiania Bohemians ( no, Kristiania-bohemen) were a political and cultural movement in the 1880s centered in Kristiania (now Oslo). Hans Jæger was the central figure in the movement, and other prominent members included Christian Krohg, O ...

, surrealism, Dadaism and existentialism, at its peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the magazine had a greater circulation than and ''

Ny Tid ''Ny Tid'' (English: ''Modern Times Review'') is Norway's largest international quarterly review of non-fiction books – up to 50 in each issue. It is currently owned by Ny Tid & Orientering AS. ''Ny Tid'' is headed by the newspaper founder Tr ...

''. It had between 4,000 and 5,000 subscribers and sent copies to prisoners for free. There were 50 street vendors across the country. All editors worked as volunteers and the magazine was early in its support of issues such as gay rights and the legalization of cannabis. published work from Christopher Nielsen, Stig Sæterbakken and

Merethe Lindstrøm Merethe Lindstrøm (born 26 May 1963) is a Norwegian writer. Lindstrøm made her literary debut in 1983 with a collection of short stories. Her first novel, ''The Realm of the Rain Children'', was published in 1992. Her 1996 novel ''The Stone ...

. The magazine achieved notoriety in 1981, when it published an article about the stolen rubbish of the two prime ministerial candidates

Gro Harlem Brundtland Gro Brundtland (; born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician (Arbeiderpartiet), who served three terms as the 29th prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986–89, and 1990–96) and as the director-general of the World Health Organizati ...

and Kåre Willoch. The issue sold over 20,000 copies. Between 1987 and 1988, the magazine was known as ''Glasnost''. The book '', 1970–1986'' (''Everything possible from , 1970–1986'') was published in 2020 to mark 50 years of the magazine.

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