resistance during the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. In 1942, she was arrested for opposing the Quisling regime She managed to get out of imprisonment and was transferred to a hospital. She was released in 1944 and lived in isolation for the rest of the occupation. After the liberation of Norway in 1945, Hagen gradually built her own resistance trying to find a way to hinder fascism from rising again. This became the root of her cultural work for children, called "Suttung", rather a pedagogical principle than a movement. She gradually gathered teenagers and students around her at her home Fredheim in Hedmark. They read the classics, poets like Henrik Wergeland, Ibsen, Hans E. Kinck, Dante, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Dostoyevsky and others. Further on, she studied William Shakespeare, the Greek playwrights and Homer, and folk-tales from all over the world. The movement grew and in time led to the establishment of the regional theater, Suttungteatret at Tangen in 1948. Suttungteatret was primarily aimed at drama that was neglected by institutional theaters and presented plays written by Norwegian authors including Henrik Wergeland and Hans E. Kinck among others. She served as the artistic director. Artist Gunnar Janson was in charge of scenery and Eivind Groven composed the music. From 1965, Suttungteatret re-located to the Tangen samfunnshus in Hedmark. In 1979, Suttungteatret was awarded the Hedmark Prize (Hedmarksprisen). Philosophy Ingeborg Refling Hagen was in many ways a self-taught philosopher. In her autobiographical works, her fictional "self" learns how to listen to her own "old one" and gaining wisdom from it. In a wider sense, this way of thinking is connected to her respect for old oral traditions handed down. In many of her works, one finds an old storyteller, giving advice, pointing out the way, or setting the plot. In her autobiographical works she also describes her visions in many places, often prompted by hard pondering on philosophical problems occurring in literature. She developed a clear feminist statement based on an interpretation of the Bible, especially Mother Mary and Eve, whom she often compared as female archetypes. She was, however, known to think of males as weaker in many ways than her own gender, and discussed many times the relationship between man and woman, and the way they treated children. She would often criticize certain types of self-righteous women. Much of her thinking in this respect derived from the fact