Red missiles
Rote Missile was an agitprop force of the 1920s.
The Red Rockets were founded in the autumn of 1927 on the occasion of a press festival of the Red Flag , the central organ of the KPD , and were subsequently closely linked to the Red Front Fighters League (RFB). They performed with piano accompaniment or with a jazz band with songs, some of which were written collectively, and first traveled to their performances on the Reichsbahn , and later with a truck, which they also used as a stage on site. Well-known songs of the group were the Niggersong and the Gaslied by Max Jensen, the latter a protest song against rearmament on the occasion of the Hamburg phosgene accident in 1928. Numerous recordings were made, some with songs from the Russian Revolution .
After the bloody May 1929 and the subsequent ban of the Red Front Fighters Association, musical instruments, texts and the trucks of the “Red Rockets” were also confiscated. The group, with some new members, continued its agitprop work, now under the name "Sturmtrupp Alarm" and above all with the aim of supporting the campaign to lift the ban on the Red Front Fighter League.
literature
- Red rockets: text book of the Berlin play force of the Red Front Fighter Association. With a foreword by Harry Rothziegel. Rot-Front-Verlag, Berlin 1928.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erika Funk-Hennigs: The agitprop movement as part of the working-class culture of the Weimar Republic . Contributions to popular music research, 15/16. Justus Liebig University Giessen, 1995 (PDF; 1.7 MB)
- ↑ The gas song
- ↑ Inge Lammel : Forward and don't forget. Music of the labor movement . VEB DSB , 1971.