Muhsam, a German Jewish revolutionary activist and writer, was one of the most colorful figures of the German revolutionary counterculture early in the twentieth century. Written in 1930, 'Thunderation' was his last full-length play before his death at the hands of the Nazis. This is the first of Muhsam's literary works to appear in English translation.

Thunderation!/Alle Wetter!: Folk Play With Song and Dance/Volksstuck Mit Gesang Und Tanz (English, German and German Edition)

Reference

Mühsam, Erich

Foreign Language Study & Reference

UNKNO

Featuring a riveting collection of anarcho-communist poetry, essays, articles, and diary entries, this translation of Erich Mühsam’s legendary writings introduces the German revolutionary’s ideas to English speakers for the first time. Uniting a burning desire for individual liberation with radical, left-wing convictions and bohemian strains with syndicalist tendencies, this diverse body of work not only includes his main political pamphlet and one of the key texts in the history of German anarchism but also some of his best-known poems, unbending defenses of political prisoners, passionate calls for solidarity among the proletariat, recollections of the utopian community of Monte Verità, debates on the rights of homosexuals and women, and the role of intellectuals in the class struggle. Perfect for anarchists, activists, or those interested in German history, this expansive and enlightening compilation provides a deep understanding of this important historical figure.

Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings: A Political Reader

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

PM Press

Thunderation!: Folk Play With Song and Dance

Bucknell University Press

With Psychology of the Rich Aunt, German author Erich Mühsam made his ironic bid for authorial immortality by announcing his discovery that immortality in fact exists―specifically in the person of the Rich Aunt. Through 25 case studies, arranged alphabetically (from Aunt Amalia to Aunt Zerlinde), Mühsam argues his case: the Rich Aunt is able to live forever provided she has a nephew waiting for her demise and for his inheritance. The corollary revealed in these tales, of course, is that a Rich Aunt’s eternal rest is directly tied to her nephew’s deprivation of said inheritance. The pathways to an immortal’s demise can thus be the result of anything from the vagrancies of sexual proclivities or the stock market to the unforeseen expenses of literary ambitions. The Rich Aunt emerges as the enduring fly in the ointment of Church, Family and State, the undoing of fate personified and the transformation of morality into mortality under the aegis of Capital.
Originally published in German in 1905, Psychology of the Rich Aunt is a caustically tongue-in-cheek portrayal of greed under capitalism in the bourgeois epoch.
Erich Mühsam (1878–1934) was a German-Jewish anarchist writer, poet, playwright, cabaret songwriter and a fierce satirist of the Nazi party. He played a key role in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, championed the rights of women and homosexuals, advocated for free love and vegetarianism, and opposed capitalism and war. He was brutally murdered in the Oranienburg concentration camp.

Psychology of the Rich Aunt: Being an Inquiry, in Twenty-Five Parts, into the Question of Immortality (Wakefield Galleries)

Literary

Wakefield Press

Tagebücher (1910-1924) (Studio DTV) (German Edition)

Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag

Unpolitische Erinnerungen.

Essays & Correspondence

Aufbau Tb

Von Eisner bis Leviné: D. Entstehung u. Niederlage d. bayer. Räterepublik : e. Bericht (MaD-Flugschrift ; No. 17)

MaD-Verlag Schulenburg

Der vorliegende Band versammelt erstmals sämtliche Briefe und Postkarten, die der deutsch-jüdische Schriftsteller, Philosoph und "Antipolitiker" Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) an seinen acht Jahre jüngeren Freund und politischen Weggefährten Erich Mühsam (1878-1934) gerichtet hat. Ergänzt werden diese Texte durch die wenigen Briefe Mühsams, die erhalten sind, ferner durch Auszüge aus seinem Tagebuch, in denen Mühsam gemeinsame Pläne und Begegnungen reflektiert, sowie durch Aufsätze über Landauers Person und Werk. Auf diese Weise lässt sich - unter Hinzuziehung des kenntnisreichen und präzisen Kommentars - der Dialog zweier Opponenten des wilhelminischen Staates, aber auch einer zahnlos gewordenen Sozialdemokratie von seinen Anfängen in der Berliner "Neuen Gemeinschaft" bis zur Beteiligung an der bayerischen Räteregierung nachverfolgen. Eine verständlich geschriebene Einleitung erhellt die Freundschaft dieser beiden durchaus "verschiedenen Naturen" Während Landauer sich zu Proudhon hingezogen fühlte, identifiziert Mühsam sich mit Bakunin.

Sei tapfer und wachse dich aus: Gustav Landauer im Dialog mit Erich Mühsam - Briefe und Aufsätze (Schriften Der Erich-Meuhsam-Gesellschaft) (German Edition)

LANDAUER, Gustav

Erich-Muhsam-Gesellschaft E.V.

Tagebücher. Band 03: 1912-1914

Verbrecher Verlag

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