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About Ernst Gervin
- Ernst Ancher Gervin (6 December 1908 – 27 January 1978) was a Norwegian magazine editor. He was born as Ernst Ancher Hanssen, but changed his name to Gervin in 1948.
- He was the editor-in-chief of Norsk Ukeblad from 1934 til 1952 and Hjemmet from 1952 to 1964.
- From 1965 to 1976 he worked for the publishing house Gutenbergshus, where he was responsible for the comic Donald Duck & Co.During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was a controversial figure among the occupying Germans.
- His magazine was responsible for the comic 91 Stomperud, which had run since 1937 with Gervin as the textwriter.
- In 1942 it was found that 91 Stomperud mocked the occupying forces, and Norsk Ukeblad was stopped for four weeks.
- He was later imprisoned with caricaturer Gunnar Bratlie for a caricature of Vidkun Quisling in Norsk Ukeblad in February 1943 (#8).
- The caricature portrayed Quisling as an unsteady ice skating boy, who was being helped to stand up by a man with a Hitler moustache.
- He was imprisoned in Grini concentration camp from 23 February to 24 May 1943.In 1963 there was a mild controversy when the Donald Duck comic story Lost in the Andes! was translated and printed in Norway as Eggemysteriet ("the Egg Mystery").
- The translator Vivi Aagaard chose an archaic and slightly garbled version of the Norwegian language form Nynorsk for the mountain-dwellers, and this was widely seen as an insult.
- Thus, through the Norwegian language struggle, the story got quite a lot of attention in Norwegian media.Gervin died in January 1978 and was buried in Ullern.
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See Also
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