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Alfred Kurella
Alfred Kurella (May 2, 1895 – June 12, 1975) was a German author and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in East Germany.
Biographical details.
Kurella was born in Brieg, Silesia. In 1918, he became a member of the German Communist Party, met Lenin in 1919 and became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Kurella began living in Moscow in spring 1934 and began writing for the "Deutsche Zentral Zeitung" in 1935.
A party leader, Alfred Kurella, responded stating it was time to "speak out publicly against the pseudo-sympathetic voices for negroes, behind which in reality racist attitudes are concealed." Kurella continued, "in the uncritical cult...with respect to spirituals, is hidden the same condescending and belittling attitude toward negroes."
In November 1955 (some sources give 1956) Pankey traveled to Beijing, China as a guest of the Chinese People's Association for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries to perform a series of recitals.