Otto Luihn

Otto Luihn (15 March 1890 – 3 March 1943) was a Norwegian newspaper editor, magazine editor and poet.

Early life He was born as Otto Killingland in Drammen as a son of attorney Samuel Killingland (1841–1910) and Johanne Louise Luihn (1856–1906), and a grandson of Hans Jacob Luihn. Luihn finished middle school in 1906, and worked a couple of years at sea. In 1913 he married Marie Langlotz (1893–1969).

Career Luihn worked for the anarchist magazine Storm from 1909. editor-in-chief for the Stavanger newspaper Den 1ste Mai, then journalist for the Bergen newspaper Arbeidet from 1919 to 1923. Joining the Communist Party in 1923, he worked for Norges Kommunistblad from 1923 to 1927. He was the first editor of the weekly magazine Arbeidermagasinet from 1927. He was also the writer behind Sjurs Sjursen vil bli kapitalist, a satirical comic strip illustrated by Bjarne Restan, which appeared in the same magazine.

He edited Arbeidermagasinet until February 1931, and set out to mold it into an entertainment magazine with a connection to the labour movement. For enlightenment purposes they ran a column named Kjente menn innen arbeiderklassen ("Famous Men of the Working Class"), and in 1931 Luihn released Arbeidernes fremmedordbok ("Workers' Dictionary of Foreign Words"). He also released the poetry collection Dikt in 1930. From the same year he edited the magazine Arbeider-Revy, which was officially an organ for the organization Arbeiderforfatteres forening, which he started. After being released he fled to Sweden. He died from a heart ailment in March 1943 in Stockholm.

Published books Sovjetunionen. Oplevelser og inntrykk (1933) Centralasia under Sovjetstjernen (1934) Ukraine. På opdagerferd i den tredjestørste Sovjetrepublikk (1936)