{{Short description|Norwegian satirical magazine (1905–1926)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | frequency = | circulation = | category = Satirical magazine | company = | publisher = | founded = 1905 | finaldate = 1926 | country = Norway | based = Kristiania | language = Norwegian | issn = }} '''{{Lang|no|Hvepsen}}''' (Norwegian: "The Wasp") was a Norwegian humorous and satirical magazine which was in circulation between 1905 and 1926.
==History and profile== {{Lang|no|Hvepsen}} was founded in 1905 by people involved in the labour movement in Kristiania, including John Johansen, Ole O. Lian, Marius Ormestad, Lyder Strøm and Hans Østerholt.<ref name=paxlex>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Hvepsen|encyclopedia=Pax Leksikon|editor=Dahl Elster|editor2=Iversen Nørve|editor3=Romøren Slagstad|publisher=Pax Forlag|url=http://mediabase1.uib.no/paxlex/alfabetet/h/h12.html#1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330061715/http://mediabase1.uib.no/paxlex/alfabetet/h/h12.html#1|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 March 2012|author=Knut Kjeldstadli |location=Oslo|language=no}}</ref> Østerholt was the editor-in-chief from 1905 to 1925.<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Hans Østerholt|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|author=Lill-Ann Jensen|editor=Helle, Knut|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=https://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Hans_Østerholt/utdypning|language=no}}</ref>
The frequency of the magazine changed three times. It was published monthly from its inception to 1908.<ref name=BrookerBru2013/> Next it was published bimonthly from 1909 to 1912.<ref name=BrookerBru2013/> Then it was a weekly until its disestablishment in 1926.<ref name=BrookerBru2013/>
Illustrators for {{Lang|no|Hvepsen}} included Jens R. Nilssen<ref>{{cite web|title=Jens R. Nilssen |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nilssen_jens-r.htm|work=Lambiek|access-date=3 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=P. E. Hem|author2=E. Hem|title=Regulations with plenty of loopholes – the doctors’ prescription rights during the era of prohibition 1916–1926|journal=Tidsskr Nor Legeforen|date=December 2012|volume=23 |url=http://tidsskriftet.no/article/2946328/en_GB}}</ref> and text contributors included Johan Falkberget.<ref name=paxlex/> Falkberget's ''Bør Børson'' was first published as a feuilleton in {{Lang|no|Hvepsen}}.<ref name=nbl/>
The 1920 were tumultuous times. The Norwegian Labour Party saw two parties split away, and {{Lang|no|Hvepsen}} supported the new Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway. For this reason the magazine was evicted from Folkets Hus in 1922. It went defunct in 1926,<ref name="BrookerBru2013">{{cite book|editor1=Peter Brooker|editor2=Sascha Bru|editor3=Andrew Thacker|author4=Christian Weikop|title=The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines|volume=III|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvsfioiQ8k8C&pg=PA646|year=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-965958-6|page=646}}</ref> and the publishing rights were held by ''Arbeidermagasinet'' until 1932.<ref name=paxlex/><ref name=nbl/>
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