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Räte-Zeitung
The ''Räte-Zeitung'' (Councils' Newspaper) was a left-wing magazine published from April 1919 until late 1920. It was launched by Philipp Dengel and Alfons Goldschmidt. Leo Matthias joined the editorial team. It proclaimed itself the "Organ of the Workers' Councils". It was one of the main vehicles promoting the activities of German Expressionism – an avant-garde art movement – to the working class. Contributors The following were contributors: *Franz Jung *Karl Kautsky * Frederick Wendel *Karl Radek *Alexander Bloch *Kurt Hiller * Hanns Bruno Herfurth *Emil Dyrrlich (Berlin-Neuköln) *Arthur Holitscher *Ernst Toller *Otto Gross Otto Hans Adolf Gross (17 March 1877 – 13 February 1920) was an Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Sigmund Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community. His father Hans Gross was a judge turned ... References External links Issue 2, 8 April 1919 1919 establishments in Germany 1920 dise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Schüller
Hermann Schüller (1893–1948) was a German writer and Communist activist. He was one of the founders of the League for Proletarian Culture in 1919. In October 1920, with Erwin Piscator Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content o ... he founded the Proletarian Theatre, Stage of the Revolutionary Workers of Greater Berlin. ''Räte-Zeitung'' In 1919 Schüller wrote for the '' Räte-Zeitung''. He also produced a series of pamphlets called ''Der Aufbau: Flugblätter an Jugend''. Three of these were written by himself. Hans Reichenbach contributed Volume 5 ''Student und Sozialismus''. ''Der Aufbau: Flugblätter an Jugend'' ''Der Aufbau: Flugblätter an Jugend'' (Constructure: Pamphlets for Youth) was a series of pamphlets produced by Schüller: # ''Revolution - Aufbau'' by Hermann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Dengel
Philipp Dengel (15 December 1888 – 28 March 1948) was a German journalist and politician (SPD, KPD). He sat as a Communist member of the Reichstag (''national parliament'') between 1924 and 1930, and through most of the fractious 1920s was a close political ally of Ernst Thälmann who became party leader in 1925. There was a falling out between the two men over the so-called Wittorf affair of 1928, however. Between 1931 and 1947, Dengel lived principally in Moscow in connection with his party work (and because between 1933 and 1945 it would have been highly dangerous for Dengel, as a known Communist activist-politician, to set foot in Germany). Life Provenance and early years Philipp Dengel was born in Ober-Ingelheim, a wine village formally just outside the Mittelrhein region, and a short distance to the west of Mainz. Philipp Dengel, his father, was in business as a wine producer and distiller. He attended school, initially, in the village and then, between 1903 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |