# Club 7

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{{Short description|Cultural club in Oslo, Norway}}
[[File:498 Public Enemies.jpg|thumb|right|[Public Enemies](/source/Public_Enemies_(group)) performing at Club 7 in 1966.]]
'''Club 7''' was a cultural club in [Oslo](/source/Oslo), Norway, active from 1963 to 1985. It was regarded a centre for [counterculture](/source/counterculture) in Norway in the 1960s through the 1970s. There was a wide tolerance for alternative lifestyles, including homosexuality.<ref name=Rem>{{cite book|title=Født til frihet. En biografi om Jens Bjørneboe |first=Tore |last=Rem |pages=469–472|year=2010 |publisher=Cappelen Damm |location=Oslo|language=Norwegian|isbn=978-8-20231-005-9}}</ref>

==History==
Club 7 was established in 1963 by Attila Horvath and Odd Schou.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Club 7 |encyclopedia=[Store norske leksikon](/source/Store_norske_leksikon) |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Club_7 |language=Norwegian |accessdate=12 March 2012}}</ref> The first meeting took place at Kafé René at [Lilletorget](/source/Lilletorget), Oslo.<ref name=paxlex>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Club 7 |first=Oddmund |last=Berg |encyclopedia=[Pax Leksikon](/source/Pax_Leksikon) |editor=Dahl |editor2=Elster |editor3=Iversen |editor4=Nørve |editor5=Romøren |editor6=Slagstad |editor7=Vaa |pages=25–26 |publisher=Pax Forlag |location=Oslo |year=1979 |volume=2}}</ref> Among the pioneers was also poet [Kate Næss](/source/Kate_N%C3%A6ss), who is credited for inventing the name of the club.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Kate Næss |encyclopedia=[Norsk biografisk leksikon](/source/Norsk_biografisk_leksikon)|first=Jan Erik |last=Vold |authorlink=Jan Erik Vold |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Kate_Næss/utdypning |language=Norwegian|accessdate=12 March 2012 }}</ref> The name "Club 7" is supposed to mean the club should be "more than [sex](/source/sex)"<ref name=Rem/> (the number 6 in Norwegian is pronounced like "sex"). The [avant-garde](/source/avant-garde) theatre [Stage 7](/source/Stage_7_(theater)) ({{langx|no|Scene 7}}) was started in 1966, with [Sossen Krohg](/source/Sossen_Krohg) as artistical director.<ref name=scene7>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Scene 7 |encyclopedia=[Store norske leksikon](/source/Store_norske_leksikon) |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Scene_7 |language=Norwegian |accessdate=12 March 2012}}</ref><ref name=sossen>{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Sossen Krohg |encyclopedia=[Norsk biografisk leksikon](/source/Norsk_biografisk_leksikon)|first=Svend Erik Løken |last=Larsen |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Sossen_Krohg/utdypning |language=Norwegian|accessdate=12 March 2012 }}</ref> Other club activities were jazz concerts, poetry evenings, rock concerts, exhibitions, café and activities for children.<ref name=snl/> The club had various locations over years, including [Drammensveien](/source/Drammensveien) 64, the [Edderkoppen Theatre](/source/Edderkoppen_Theatre), the restaurant [Kongen](/source/Kongen_(Oslo)) near [Frognerkilen](/source/Frognerkilen), and the [Oslo Concert Hall](/source/Oslo_Concert_Hall).<ref name=paxlex/> In the 1970s the club was located in [Vika](/source/Vika%2C_Oslo), in block D of Oslo Concert Hall,<ref name=paxlex/> where it covered an area of 1,400 square meters, and had an average number of 300 visitors per evening.<ref name=Rem/> The club had its own library, gallery and newspaper. It hosted blues concerts, folk concerts and jazz concerts, movie shows and dance evenings.<ref name=paxlex/> The theatre staged experimental plays by playwrights such as [Ionesco](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco), [Fo](/source/Dario_Fo) and [Cocteau](/source/Jean_Cocteau).<ref name=sossen/> Among the theatre's greatest successes was a dance performance based on [Gerd Brantenberg](/source/Gerd_Brantenberg)'s novel ''[Egalias døtre](/source/Egalias_d%C3%B8tre)''.<ref name=scene7/> [Jens Bjørneboe](/source/Jens_Bj%C3%B8rneboe)'s play ''Tilfellet Torgersen'' ({{lang|en|The [Torgersen](/source/Fredrik_Fasting_Torgersen) Case}}) premiered at Stage 7 on 25 January 1973.<ref>Rem (2010): pp. 425–429</ref> The theatre also showed a series of children's plays written by Sossen Krohg, starting with ''Skinka Nøff og Grynta som ikke ville bli julebord'' in 1975.<ref name=sossen/>

The club closed in 1985 after bankruptcy.<ref name=snl/>

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