Senna Hoy

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Senna Hoy (around 1905)

Senna Hoy (actually Johannes Holzmann ; born October 30, 1882 in Tuchel , † April 28, 1914 in Meschtscherskoje near Moscow ) was a German anarchist and writer .

Life

Senna Hoy came from a wealthy Jewish family; his father was a teacher. As a youth he moved around the Theosophical Society and the SPD , but broke with these currents in 1902 at the latest. He adopted the pseudonym Senna Hoy (formed by Else Lasker-Schüler as Ananym from his first name) and founded the anarchist magazine Kampf in 1904 - sponsored and co-financed by his friend Otto Buek . In it he not only advocated a variety of current political issues, but also advocated the abolition of Paragraph 175 and thus the legalization of homosexualitya. He was a co-founder of the Federation for Human Rights and its president until 1905.

Important employees of Der Kampf included Else Lasker-Schüler , Erich Mühsam , Franz Pfemfert ; Herwarth Walden and Paul Scheerbart . In 1905 the magazine was banned, whereupon Senna Hoy went to Switzerland, where he worked on the magazine Der Weckruf . In 1907 he went to Russia to work politically, but was arrested there in the same year and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Pfemfert, Lasker-Schüler and others unsuccessfully campaigned for his release. He died at the age of 31 on April 28, 1914 in the insane ward of the Meschtscherskoje prison near Moscow and was buried on May 14, 1914 in Berlin-Weissensee .

Publications

  • The golden Kathe. 1904

literature

  • Struggle. Journal of - Common Sense . New episode. Edited by Senna Hoy (Johannes Holzmann). Berlin 1904/05. Reprint. Edited by W. Fähnders. Vaduz 1988 (recte: 1989). In it: Bibliography Johannes Holzmann (Senna Hoy), pp. XLVI – L.
  • Johannes Holzmann: Gifts from Else Lasker-Schüler. (First print from the estate). In: Die Aktion (Ed. Nautilus) 9: 1989, pp. 744-748.
  • Walter Fähnders: Johannes Holzmann (Senna Hoy). in: Lexicon of Anarchy. Bösdorf 1993
  • Walter Fähnders: Else Lasker-Schüler and "Senna Hoy" . In: Sarah Kirsch, Jürgen Serke, Hajo Jahn (eds.): My dreams fall into the world. An Else Lasker Schüler Almanac. Wuppertal 1995, pp. 55-77.
  • Walter Fähnders: A romantic rowdy. Notes on the life and work of the anarchist Senna Hoy. In: Die Aktion (Ed. Nautilus) 9: 1989, No. 47/49, pp. 706-731.
  • Walter Fähnders: Anarchism and Homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany: Senna Hoy, Erich Mühsam, John Henry Mackay. In: Journal of Homosexuality. 29: 1995, No. 2/3, pp. 117-153.
  • Franz Pfemfert , Ed .: The Action. 1st year 1911. Reprint with introduction and Come on. Paul Raabe . Kösel, Munich 1961, p. 63f
  • Emil Szittya : The Cabinet of Curiosities. 1923, pp. 137-143

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personal data
SURNAME Hoy, Senna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holzmann, Johannes (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anarchist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuchel
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1914
Place of death Meshcherskoye near Moscow