Max Kegel (poet)

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Max Kegel around 1878.

Max Kegel (born January 6, 1850 in Dresden , † August 10, 1902 in Thalkirchen near Munich ) was a German social democrat and poet ( pseudonyms Biedermeier A. Aaberg and Georg Franz ).

Life

Max Kegel was the son of a seamstress. In 1864 he began an apprenticeship as a printer . In 1869 he joined the Social Democratic Labor Party . He started as a journalist in 1871 for the social democratic newspaper Dresdner Volksbote , where August Otto-Walster introduced him to this activity. As editor of the Chemnitz Free Press , he also published their humorous supplement The Nutcracker . In self-study and at the Dresden Commercial Academy he continued his education, especially in economics and literature. Kegel took part as a delegate at the Gotha Association Congress (May 22-27, 1875) and represented 400 party members there. He was also a delegate at the following party congress in Gotha (August 19-23, 1876) and represented Limbach and Mittweida . From May 27 to 29, 1877, he represented Hilbersdorf and Zöblitz at the party congress in Gotha . After the newspaper was banned by the Socialist Act , Max Kegel was employed as an agitator and worked in Berlin , Dresden, Munich , again in Dresden, Nuremberg and various places in Thuringia . He founded numerous newspapers, but these were quickly suppressed by the Prussian authorities. Max Kegel was also one of 52 delegates to the congress from August 20 to 23, 1880 at the Wyden Castle in Switzerland . Max Kegel was arrested several times for press violations and sentenced to prison and fines.

On January 30, 1882, he founded the Süddeutscher Postillon magazine in Munich , initially as a supplement to Louis Viereck's Süddeutsche Post newspaper . Until 1884 he wrote almost all of the articles himself. His pseudonym was "Georg Franz". From 1882 to 1888 Kegel was the responsible editor, with the exception of the ban on the newspaper in 1883. In 1888 Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz persuaded him to write for the more successful satirical journal of the social democrats, Der Wahre Jacob . Max Kegel was active there until his death. For the Erfurt party congress in 1891 he composed the "Socialist March", his most famous song (music by Carl Gramm (1855-1927)):

Socialist March (1891), music by Carl Gramm

1. Open up, socialists, close the ranks!
The drum is calling, the banners are blowing.
The task is to liberate the work
, the freedom is to resurrect!
Happiness on earth, splendor of the sun,
light of spirit, power of knowledge,
be it given to the whole people, that
is the goal we strive for.
This is the holy war of work! This is the holy war of work!
With us the people! Victory with us! With us the people! Victory with us!
 
2. You countless millions
in shaft and field, in town and country,
who have to rejoice at meager wages
and work faithfully with a diligent hand: You are still sighing
under the spell of misery!
Hear the wake-up call! Join!
To rise from anguish and suffering, that
is the goal we strive for.
This is the holy war of work! [etc.]

3.
We do not fight with the armaments of the barbarians, with flint and spear.
It leads to the victory of freedom multitudes of
the sword of the spirit, the standard of justice.
That peace reigns, prosperity flourishes,
that joy and hope glow brightly through
the work at home, the work life.
That is the goal that we strive for.
This is the holy war of work! [etc.]

Works

  • Press processes or the daughter of the prosecutor. Comedy in 2 acts. Publishers of the Volksbuchhandlung, Zurich 1876.
  • Free songs. Collected poems. Cooperative printing company, Chemnitz 1878.
  • An offended infantry regiment. Press process against the "Süddeutsche Post" . G. Pollner, Munich 1883. (Social-political issues of the time and controversial issues, volume 4)
  • A. Aaberg (pseudonym): Ferdinand Lassalle . Commemorative publication on the 25th anniversary of his death. A biography . Polytechnische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1883.
    • Ferdinand Lassalle . Commemorative publication on the 25th anniversary of his death. With a portrait of Lassalle’s . 2., reworked, supplemented and exp. Edition JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1890.
  • Robert, the club devil. Novella . L. Viereck, Munich 1883.
  • In the concubine floor . 2., verb. Ed. L. Viereck, Munich 1886.
  • (Review) Theodor Curti , moods and thoughts. A lyrical diary. Zurich 1889. Publishing magazine (J. Schabelitz). In: Die neue Zeit , revue of intellectual and public life, 7 (1889), issue 3, pp. 139–140; online in: Digital Library , Friedrich Ebert Foundation
  • (Review) Otto Erich, student diary. Second changed and increased edition. Zurich. Publishing magazine (J. Schabelitz). In: Die neue Zeit , revue of intellectual and public life, 7 (1889), issue 4, p. 190; online in: Digital Library , Friedrich Ebert Foundation
  • Light rays of poetry. Poetry collection. Selected by Max Kegel. Illustrated by Otto Emil Lau . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1890.
  • Ed .: Social Democratic Songbook . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1891. (8th edition 1897. online in the Bielefeld University Library)
  • The prosecutor's daughter. Schwank in 1 act. Forward, Berlin 1894.
  • Klaus Völkerling (Ed.): Max Kegel. Selection from his work . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974. (Text editions on early socialist literature in Germany 13)

Magazines

  • 1871–1882 The Dresdner Volksbote. Organ for the interests of the entire people . Ed .: Standing committee of shop stewards of workers' corporations and associations in Dresden and the surrounding area (employees)
  • 1873–1878 Chemnitz Free Press (editing)
  • 1873–1875 Chemnitz rockets . Sunday supplement of the Chemnitz Free Press
  • 1875–1878 The nutcracker. Sunday supplement of the Chemnitz Free Press (senior editor)
  • 1879–1881 Hiddigeigei. Organ for joke and gallows humor (editor)
  • 1882–1888 South German postilion. Illustrated political-satyrical worker paper (publisher, together with Louis Viereck ). JHW Dietz, Stuttgart
  • 1888–1902 The True Jacob. Illustrated magazine for satire, humor and entertainment (permanent contributor). JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1879-1933

Settings

  • Carl Gramm: Up, socialists, close the ranks! (Socialist March) . 1891
  • R. Kohlmann: It must finally be spring . Opus 21. Günther, Dresden 1919
  • Friedrich Heinrich Himmel : It can't always stay that way (The Paris Commune)

literature

  • HD: Max Kegel . In: The True Jacob . No. 420 of August 26, 1902, pp. 3837-3838 digitized
  • Max cone . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Vol. 1. Deceased personalities . Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 160.
  • Cone, max . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1964, pp. 280–282, Bibliography p. 282.
  • Manfred Häckel: Kegel, Max . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 240
  • Klaus Völkerling: Max Kegel (1850–1902). “Open up, socialists, close the ranks!” Meaning and limits of a representative of early socialist literature in Germany . In: Weimar Contributions , 1974, Issue 1, pp. 161–169
  • Max cone . In: Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon . Vol. 6. Munich 1993, p. 267

Web links

Commons : Max Kegel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Wilfried Eymer: Eymers pseudonyms lexicon . Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-7812-1399-4 , p. 170.
  2. ^ Franz Osterroth, p. 160.
  3. ↑ a b c Lexicon of Socialist German Literature , p. 280.
  4. ^ Dieter Fricke: The German labor movement. 1869-1914. A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle . Berlin 1976, p. 97.
  5. ↑ Fricke: The German labor movement. 1976, p. 117.
  6. ↑ Fricke: The German labor movement. 1976, p. 124.
  7. ↑ Fricke: The German labor movement. 1976, p. 146.
  8. ↑ Häckel: Kegel, Max. 1970, p. 240.
  9. ^ Lexicon of Socialist German Literature , p. 482.
  10. ↑ Der Wahre Jacob 1891, supplement to No. 136, p. 1105: digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
  11. ↑ Published from March 1871 to March 31, 1877. The editor in charge was August Otto-Walster.
  12. ↑ Published October 21, 1871 to November 16, 1878.
  13. ↑ Motto: "You, O people, whom I would so much like to serve, receive the seeds, But the creators of your torments, I treat them with the pods."
  14. ↑ 1873–1876 under the title Chemnitzer rockets (Fricke: Die deutsche Arbeiterbewendung. 1976, p. 380.)
  15. ↑ Published 1879 to April 11, 1881.
personal data
SURNAME Cone, max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georg Franz (pseudonym); A. Aaberg, A. (pseudonym); Biedermeier (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1902
Place of death Thalkirchen near Munich