biography
pronunciation:
[müsam]
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| (1874–1934)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Berlin, Germany. A dispensing chemist, he took up full-time writing in 1901 and worked for various periodicals, including the anarchistic Der arme Teufel, Weckruf, Simplicissimus, Gesellschaft, and Aktion. He participated in the Bavarian revolution, became a member of the council of the Munich Räterrepublik, and was imprisoned after it was deposed. In his major work Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat (1932) he created the utopia of ‘communist anarchism’ as a model for a just society without violence. He had propounded this idea in his magazines Kain (1911–14, 1918–19) and Fanal (1926–31), as well as in chansons, poems, plays (Judas), and essays. He was imprisoned under the German Empire (1910), the Weimar Republic (1919–24), and the Nazi regime (from 1933). He died in Oranienberg concentration camp in 1934, and his posthumously published Namen und Menschen (1949) is a significant historical document. |
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