Alf Larsen

[2] In Janus Larsen also presented the work of many international writers to the Norwegian public, both in the form of reviews and first-time translations.

Further, Janus was Larsen's main channel for advocating the ideas of Rudolf Steiner, both with regards to education and art, and as a general philosophy of life.

This movement has later continued in the cultural magazines Spektrum, Horisont and Arken, and by such prolific writers as André Bjerke, Jens Bjørneboe and Kaj Skagen.

[4] In 2009 Larsen was declared to be an anti-Semite by historian Jan Erik Ebbestad Hansen, who in archives found a pamphlet named Jødeproblemet (The Jew Problem).

[5] However, Larsen's post-war openly expressed antipathy towards the Jews may not represent the complete truth on this sensitive matter, as one of his favourite authors is known to have been the Jewish born catholic philosopher Max Picard.

It seems, that Larsen's views after World War II for some reason - some say because the absence of his late wife's mellowing influence - happened to become increasingly cliche-filled and eventually right out anti-semitic.

Gravestone of Norwegian writer Alf Larsen (1885–1967) in the churchyard outside Tjøme kirke, a Lutheran church on the island of Tjøme in Færder Municipality, Norway. A granite tombstone with a rosencrucian inscription in Latin: Ex Deo nascimur, In Christo morimur, Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus ("From God we are born, In Christ we die, In the Holy Spirit we are reborn"). Photographed April 2020