Ukens Revy
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Ukens Revy was a Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

 periodical, published in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

.

It was founded in September 1914 as a conservative-leaning literary and political periodical. The first editor was Hjalmar Christensen
Hjalmar Christensen
Hjalmar Christensen was a Norwegian writer. In February and March 1890 he was romantically attached to Dagny Juel.Kjende personar i Førde:...

, who co-edited with Ronald Fangen
Ronald Fangen
Ronald Fangen was a Norwegian novelist, essayist, playwright, psalmist, journalist and literary critic. He was born in Kragerø, and perished in a plane accident in 1946....

 and Victor Mogens
Victor Mogens
Victor Andreas Emanuel Mogens was a Norwegian journalist, editor and politician for Fedrelandslaget.-Pre-war life and career:...

. From issue #5/1914 Mogens took over the editor chair. It was published by Helge Erichsen & Co. until 1 January 1916, when it was taken over by a limited company. The limited company A/S Ukens Revys nye Aktieselskap took over on 1 January 1920. In 1920 it had five employees and was published every Friday. The board of directors at the time consisted of C. J. Hambro, Peter Andreas Morell and Rolf Bye.

Hambro took over as editor-in-chief in 1921, as Mogens founded his own magazine Utenrikspolitikken. Mogens would belong to Fedrelandslaget
Fedrelandslaget
The Fatherland League was a political organisation in Norway, which was founded on 25 January 1925. By the initiative of young industrialist Joakim Lehmkuhl, the organisation was co-founded with polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen and former Prime Minister Christian Michelsen...

, whose views clashed with those of Hambro. Hambro remained editor until 1929.
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