The left turn

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The left turn
description	German literary magazine
First edition	August 1, 1929
attitude	1932
Frequency of publication	per month
Widespread edition	15,000 copies
editor	Johannes R. Becher, Kurt Kläber, Andor Gábor, Hans Marchwitza, Ludwig Renn, Erich Weinert

Die Linkskurve was the magazine of the union of proletarian revolutionary writers , which was close to the Communist Party of Germany . It was edited by Johannes R. Becher , Kurt Kläber , Andor Gábor (August 1929 to April 1930), Hans Marchwitza (May 1930 to December 1932), Ludwig Renn and Erich Weinert . The aim was "the development of a proletarian revolutionary poetry". In it "literature was discussed on a Marxist-theoretical basis and placed in the context of the class struggle."

Die Linkskurve was published monthly in Berlin for four years from 1929 to 1932. In addition, a special issue was published in May 1932 on the 100th anniversary of Goethe's death .

The eponymous magazine Linkskurve - Magazine for Art and Culture ( ISSN  0179-5767 ) was published between 1979 and 1984 by Verlag Neue Zeit, Kiel .

Sources from the 1920s and 1930s

• The left turn. Monthly magazine of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers in Germany . Edited by Johannes R. Becher, Kurt Kläber, Andor Gábor, Hans Marchwitza, Ludwig Renn and Erich Weinert. Berlin Vol. 1 (1929) - Vol. 4 (1932). With the Goethe special 1932. With newly created table of contents (Supplements: Die Linkskurve Berlin 1929-1932. ) Verlag Internationaler Arbeiterverlag. Berlin.
  • Die Linkskurve 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932. Reprographic reprint. Auvermann, partly printing and publishing cooperative Frankfurt, partly Materialismus Verlag. Series Bücherei des Marxismus und Leninismus, Volume 10, Frankfurt 1970. Further editions appeared in later years.

literature

• Christian Dietrich: literary profile and political program. On the conceptualization of the monthly magazine "Die Linkskurve" , in: Work - Movement - History , Issue I / 2017, pp. 7–21.
• Dieter Kliche, Gerhard Seidel: The left curve 1929-1932. Bibliography of a journal. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1972. ( Analytical Bibliographies of German-Language Literary Journals, Vol. 7)
• Heinrich Leber: Die Linkskurve 1929 - 1932. An investigation into the contribution of the journal of the Bund Proletarisch-Revolutionärer Writer Germany to the elaboration of basic questions of Marxist-Leninist literary policy and literary theory and to the development of proletarian-revolutionary literature . University of Leipzig , Diss. Phil. 1964.
• Left turn, The . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1964, pp. 331–335.
• Helga Gallas : Die Linkskurve 1929 - 1932. Elaboration of a proletarian-revolutionary literary theory in Germany . Ladewig, Berlin 1969. FU Berlin , Diss. Phil. 18th November 1969
  • Little edited: Marxist literary theory. Controversies in the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers . Hermann Luchterhand, Neuwied 1971 (= collection alternative , Ed. Hildegard Brenner , 1) (= Luchterhand collection , 19)
• Literature and Partisanship - The League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers (BPRS) 1929-1933 . Ed. Association of socialist cultural workers. Socialist magazine for art and society, issue 11/12. Tübingen 1972.
• Frank Rainer Scheck (Ed.): Conquer literature! Proletarian-revolutionary literary theory and debate in the Left Corner 1929-1932 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1973. Table of contents
• Friedrich Albrecht , Klaus Kellers: Association of proletarian revolutionary writers in Germany 1928–1935. Leipzig 1978.
• Dieter Schiller: Goethe in the intellectual struggles around 1932. About the Goethe numbers of the magazines 'Die Neue Rundschau' and 'Die Linkskurve' in April 1932 . In: Goethe yearbook . Vol. 103, Göttingen 1986, pp. 54-72.
• Werner T. Angress : Pegasus and Insurrection. The left turn and its heritage . In: Central European History , 1 year, No. 1 (March, 1968), pp. 35-55.

Web links

• Michael Rieger in the UZ on November 30, 2007 "With the literary machete" - thinking about socialist cultural history. The left turn 1929–1932.
• Proletarian Literature and the Politics of the Communist Party of Germany 1929-1932; Disputes in the union of proletarian revolutionary writers

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Fischer, Stephan Füssel: Historical Commission - History of the German Book Trade in the 19th and 20th Century . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012.