Walter Haenisch [SEP] father
Walter Haenisch
Walter Haenisch (Dortmund 1906 - Butovo 1938) was a Marxist theoretician and the son of German SPD politician Konrad Haenisch.
Life.
Haenisch did his Abitur at the famous Karl-Marx-Schule in Neukölln. He studied English literature, partly at the University of Reading. He became a member of the communist party KPD in 1931 and moved to Moscow, where he initially participated in Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe , the ambitious project of a complete edition of the works of Marx and Engels. In
1935 Walter Haenisch was laid off (there were accusations of "social democratic leanings" against him) and subsequently wrote several articles in "Internationale Literatur" , for example on William Cobbett, and a famous article on the impact of Percy Shelley on Marxism, which was published in Das Wort (edited by Lion Feuchtwanger and Bert Brecht). He also published an article on Marx and the Democratic Association of 1847 in one of the first editions of "Science and Society", the leading Marxist publication in the USA. Haenisch