Oskar Kanehl

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Oskar Kanehl (born October 5, 1888 in Berlin ; † May 28, 1929 there ) was a German expressionist and communist poet , writer and editor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Kanehl studied philosophy and German at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin from 1908 . His dissertation was rejected in Würzburg in 1911, which is why he then enrolled at the University of Greifswald in German studies, where he successfully completed his doctorate at the end of 1912. His doctoral thesis entitled The young Goethe in the judgment of young Germany was published in 1913.

After completing his studies, Kanehl moved to the nearby fishing village of Wieck . There he gave twelve issues of his short-lived magazine Wiecker Bote from 1913 to 1914 . Academic monthly magazine in which several important texts of early Expressionism appeared, including by Albert Ehrenstein , Max Herrmann-Neiße and Else Lasker-Schüler , Rudolf Leonhard , Ernst Wilhelm Lotz and Richard Oehring. Kanehl's texts also appeared in the magazine Die Aktion .

In 1914 Kanehl was called up for military service. His anti-war poems appeared in Franz Pfemfert's Die Aktion during the First World War and were among the most important of their time. In 1922 they were published as a book in the Aktion-Verlag. In 1918 Kanehl became a member of the “Executive Council of Workers and Soldiers” in Berlin. In 1919 there were six calls for revolution in the magazine Die Erde . After the war Kanehl was temporarily a member of the KPD , then the KAPD and from 1921 the AAUE and the Spartacus League of left communist organizations that existed for a short time in 1926/27 .

During the Weimar Republic , Kanehl was, among other things, a director at the Rotter theaters in Berlin and worked on Franz Pfemfert's “Die Aktion” until his death.

In 1929 Kanehl committed suicide by falling from the window of his apartment on Kantstrasse . The funeral speeches were given by Erich Mühsam and Franz Pfemfert. His grave in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf near Berlin has been preserved.

Works

  • Get up, proletarian! Poems. Prolet-Verlag, Erfurt 1920. (Republished: Der Malik Verlag, Berlin 1922)
  • The shame. Poems by a conscript soldier from the 1914–1918 murder season. Verlag der Aktion, Berlin 1922. (Republished: BoD, Norderstedt 2015) (full text)
  • Road clear. Poems. Verlag des Spartakusbundes, Berlin 1928. (Republished: Nevertheless-Verlag, Reutlingen, 1979 and 1981)
  • Things are screaming. Poems. Verlag Wiecker Bote, Greifswald / Berlin 2015. (Publisher)
  • Nobody has the right to ensure peace and order. edited and introduced by Wolfgang Haug. Verlag Edition AV, Lich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86841-146-1 .
  • Oskar Kanehl. Versensporn - Booklet for Lyrical Charms, No. 37, Edition POESIE SCHMECKT GUT, ed. by Tom Riebe, Jena 2019, 100 copies.

literature

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Fähnders, Martin Rector: Left radicalism and literature. 2 volumes. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1974, Volume 1, Chapter 3, I, 2: Oskar Kanehl's agitation poetry. , Volume 1, pp. 220–243 and Volume 2, Chapter 5, III, 1: The Agitation Lyric Oskar Kanehls , Volume 2, pp. 95–111. Fanders and Rector give Ernst Friedrich: Oskar Kanehl; The proletarian poet. , Berlin 1924 as a source.
  2. ^ Maxd Hochdorf: Poetry. In: Socialist monthly books . Issue 12, 1929, p. 1166. (PDF)

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personal data
SURNAME Kanehl, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1929
Place of death Berlin , German Empire