The brick burner

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Der Ziegelbrenner was an anarchist magazine published by Ret Marut in Munich and Cologne from 1917 to 1921 .

history

The first issue, Der Ziegelbrenner , appeared on September 1, 1917. Ret Marut, Munich, was responsible for the publication, editing and content. Verlag Der Ziegelbrenner, Munich 23. The last of the 13 issues was published in December 1921.

The name Der Ziegelbrenner is intended to make the symbolized “socio-political building material” clear. Ret Marut was a writer who later lived in Mexico as B. Traven . His widow only confirmed this assumption after his death. Its origin and other identities are controversial - also in literary terms. He himself resisted a biography.

Der Ziegelbrenner , subtitle: "Criticism of conditions and repulsive contemporaries" appeared irregularly and was considered a sheet against the bourgeoisie, militarism and the church. The magazine was banned in 1919 and appeared illegally until 1921. According to Oskar Maria Graf , Der Ziegelbrenner escaped censorship because the responsible authorities classified the magazine as a “bricklayer's magazine”.

As an actor of the Munich Soviet Republic in the committee for censorship against right-wing propaganda, Marut was to be shot dead in 1919, but was able to flee and continued to publish the magazine from Cologne until 1921. After that, there was initially no trace of him.

His friend Erich Mühsam therefore called on Marut in 1927 in an appeal (“Where's the brick maker?”) To report to the public again.

Appreciation

The author of the Ziegelbrenner became world-famous as B. Traven : The Death Ship and its novels from the workers' point of view such as the later film adaptation of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , which he himself accompanied under the identity of a "consultant" ...

As part of his current work on the Munich Soviet Republic , his texts were performed and recited several times in the Ziegelbrenner on the 50th anniversary of his death in Munich, and a plaque was attached to his house at Clemensstrasse 84.

  • The brick burner. Original print 1918, issue 5/6/7/8

  • First page

literature

  • Wolfgang Kröske: Where is the brick maker ? In: Literature and politics before the 1st World War: Erich Mühsam and the Bohème. (= Writings of the Erich Mühsam Society . Issue 15). Lübeck 1998, ISBN 3-931079-20-1 .
  • Ulrich Linse : Organized Anarchism in the German Empire from 1871. Berlin 1969, pp. 95 and 96.
  • Armin Richter: The brick maker: the individual anarchist fighting organ of the early B. Traven. Bouvier-Verlag Grundmann, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-416-01242-9 . (also Diss. Univ. Bochum 1975)
  • Ret Marut and the brickmaker. Armin Richter answers questions from the editors. In: Johannes Beck, Klaus Bergmann, Heiner Boehncke (eds.): The B. Traven book. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1976, ISBN 3-499-16986-X , pp. 85-100.
  • Max Schmid (Ed.): The brick maker . Reduced reprint . Verlag Klaus Guhl, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-88220-000-6 .
  • Enno Stahl : The brick maker - Ret Marut's political eschatology , in: Simone Barrientos, Karsten Krampitz (ed.): The fire chair, work and effect of the writer B. Traven . Aschaffenburg: Alibri, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86569-302-0 , pp. 131–142

Web links

Wikisource: Digital copies  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author: Andreas C. Knigge. Lecture at the meeting of the Erich Mühsam Society, Malente 1998 ( Memento from March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Ziegelbrenner on the run. In: Der Spiegel. No. 27, July 2, 1990.