Larissa Reissner

Larissa Reissner, ca.1920

Larissa Mikhailovna Reissner ( Russian Лариса Михайловна Рейснер ; born May 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. May  1895 ^greg. In Lublin ; † 9 February 1926 in Moscow ), also Reisner or Rejsner was a Soviet writer and revolutionary who also in German wrote.

Life

Larissa Reissner was the daughter of the German-born legal scholar Michail Reissner , who had to emigrate from Russia after he had written a legal opinion in favor of revolutionaries; her mother's name was Ekaterina Alexandrovna Khitrova. Larissa attended schools in France and Germany. Through her father she got to know August Bebel , Karl Liebknecht and Lenin personally as a child . In 1906 she returned to Russia. As a war opponent, she took part in her father's anti-militarist magazine during the First World War and worked on various projects by Maxim Gorky, such as the literary magazine Letopis and, after the February Revolution in 1917, on the left-wing socialist daily Novaya Schisn .

Larissa Reissner took an active part in the October Revolution and joined the Bolshevik Party in the summer of 1918. She served in the Red Army and Navy and was Commissioner of the General Staff of the Red Fleet for several months in 1919. She was captured once while working as a scout. Your writings on the civil war contain an account of the battle of Svyashsk . (→ Kazan Operation )

In 1918 she married the Soviet fleet commander Fyodor Raskolnikow . In September 1923 she met Karl Radek , with whom she was in a relationship until her untimely death.

In the early 1920s, Reissner toured both the Soviet Union and Western countries and summarized her experiences in travelogues, the most famous of which is Hamburg on the Barricades , a collection of reports on the Hamburg uprising in 1923. After its suppression, she returned to the Soviet Union returned and examined the living conditions of the working class in the Urals. In 1925 she tried to cure her recurring malaria attacks at the Wiesbaden Neroberghotel .

At the age of 30 she died of typhoid in a Moscow hospital . She was buried in the Wagankowo Cemetery . In addition to Radek, Pasternak , Shklowski , Voronsky , Sosnovsky , Trotsky and many other prominent figures of literary and political life found words of remembrance for them .

Works

• Hamburg on the barricades. Experiences and answers from the Hamburg uprising in 1923 . Berlin 1925 PDF-1 (1.2 MB) ( Memento from December 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) PDF-2 (1.2 MB) ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• October: Selected Writings . Edited and introduced by Karl Radek, Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1925. ( Review by Kurt Tucholsky )
• October: Records from Russia and Afghanistan in the 1920s , Promedia Verlag 2017.
• In the Land of Hindenburg: A Journey through the German Republic , Neuer Deutscher Verlag, Berlin 1926.
• Svyashsk

literature

• Biography in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
• Cathy Porter: Larissa Reisner: A Biography , London 1988, ISBN 978-0860688570 .
• Helga W. Schwarz: Internationalists. Six images of life . Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-327-00676-8 .
• Keyword: Reis (s) ner, Larissa. In: Helmut Roewer / Stefan Schäfer / Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of secret services in the 20th century . Munich 2003, p. 372.
• Alexander Voronsky: The Art of Seeing the World. Selected writings 1911–1936 , Arbeiterpresse, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-88634-077-5 .

Web links

Commons : Larissa Reissner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Larissa Reissner  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Larissa Reissner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pictures from the life of Larissa Reissner
• Works by Larissa Reissner in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

1. ^ Radek, K: "Larissa Reisner" In Reissner, L. Hamburg At the Barricades and Other Writings of Weimar Germany . Pluto, London 1977, p. 186 .
2. ↑ Porter, C: Larissa Reisner . Virago, London 1988, p. 9 .
3. ↑ Роковая женщина Лариса Рейснер. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .