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Erich Mühsam
Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 – 10 July 1934) was a German-Jewish antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for which he served 5 years in prison.
Also a cabaret performer, he achieved international prominence during the years of the Weimar Republic for works which, before Hitler came to power in 1933, condemned Nazism and satirized the future dictator. Mühsam was murdered in the
utopische Antizipation" (trans. "The Literary Works of Erich Mühsam: Critique and Utopian Anticipation") (Berlin: Königshausen & Neumann, 1988)
- Rolf Kauffeldt, "Erich Mühsam: Literatur und Anarchie" (trans. "Erich Mühsam: Literature and Anarchy") (Munich: W. Fink, 1983)
External links.
- Die Erich Mühsam Seite (trans. The Erich Mühsam Site) — a selection of poems by Mühsam
- Erich Mühsam Page at Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
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