Erich Mühsam

Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 in Berlin, Germany – 10 July 1934 Oranienburg Concentration Camp) (also spelled Muehsam or Muhsam) was an German-Jewish anarchist, writer, poet, dramatist and cabaret performer.

References

Footnotes

• Erich Mühsam, Tagebücher: 1910-1924 (trans. Diaries) (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1994) ISBN 3423190302
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• "The Nazi Regime at Work: Erich Mühsam" in MAN! A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement. Vol. 2, No. 3 (March 1934).
• The New York Times, 20 July 1934, quoted in "Erich Mühsam (1868-1934)" in MAN! A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement. Vol. 2, No. 8 (August 1934).
• "The Nazi Beasts" in MAN! A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement. Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1935).

Background Information

• Lawrence Baron, The eclectic anarchism of Erich Muhsam. (New York: Revisionist Press, 1976). (Part of the series: Men and Movements in the History and Philosophy of Anarchism) ISBN 0877002282
• David Shepard, From Bohemia to the Barricades: Erich Muhsam and the Development of Revolutionary Drama. (New York: P. Lang, 1993). ISBN 0820421227
• Diana Köhnen, Das literarische Werk Erich Mühsams: Kritik und utopische Antizipation (trans. The Literary Works of Erich Mühsam: Critique and Utopian Anticipation) (Berlin: Königshausen & Neumann, 1988) ISBN 3884794140
• Rolf Kauffeldt, Erich Mühsam: Literatur und Anarchie (trans. Erich Mühsam: Literature and Anarchy) (Munich: W. Fink, 1983) ISBN 3770521390