Oskar Kanehl (5 October 1888,

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– 28 May 1929, Berlin) was a

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poet and communist activist. Kanehl studied literature and philosophy at the

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and

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before moving to the village of Weick in 1912. From 1913 he published ''Die Wiecker Boten'' (The Weicker Messenger) a

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literary-political monthly. He also contributed to

Franz Pfemfert Franz Pfemfert (20 November 1879, Lötzen, East Prussia (now Giżycko, Poland) – 26 May 1954, Mexico City) was a German journalist, editor of ''Die Aktion'', literary critic, politician and portrait photographer. Pfemfert occasionally wrote u ...

's ''

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''. The ''Wiecker Bote'' was banned with the outbreak of the war, and Kanehl moved to Berlin where he continued his anti-militarist activism. He committed suicide by jumping from his window on 28 May 1929.

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 h ...

and Franz Pfemfert spoke at his funeral.

External links

Selected Poems by Oscar Kanehl

References

3. Oskar Kanehl: "Kein Mensch hat das Recht, für Ruhe und Ordnung zu sorgen", complete work and biography, edited by Wolfgang Haug, 400p., Edition AV, Lich 2016 {{Germany-poet-stub 1888 births 1929 suicides 20th-century German poets German male poets 20th-century German male writers University of Würzburg alumni University of Greifswald alumni Suicides by jumping in Germany Writers from Berlin