1918 was in Norway, Europe and the world, the year of the flu pandemic or the Spanish Flu,

caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The death toll of the Spanish Flu worldwide is

estimated to have been somewhere between 17 million and 50 million, making it one of the

deadliest pandemics in human history. In Norway, it took 15.000 lives. But next to that,

1918 was as well the year that WWI ended, and the year where the Norwegian Labour

Party, inspired by the October Revolution, radicalised to join the Communist International.

And half of humanity – women – had an important role in all this.

Characters: Anna Johnsson, member of the Norwegian Labour Party; Hanna Adolfsen,

member of the Norwegian Labour Party and head of the Norwegian Labour Party's Women's

Federation from 1920 to 1923; Rachel Grepp, Norwegian journalist and politician for the

Norwegian Labour Party; Martha Tynæs, one of the pioneering members of the Norwegian

Labour Party's Women's Federation, which she presided from 1904 till 1920.

The Radical Flu has been commissioned by osloBIENNALEN with the kind support of KUF

KHiO. It has been realised in collaboration with Notam and Radio Rakel.