Erich-Mühsam-Abend

In the organizer's words:

An event organized by Rote Hilfe Ortsgruppe Hannover in cooperation with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Niedersachsen

With Rolf Becker and Holger Kirleis

Erich Mühsam was a poet and anarchist. His life was characterized by his efforts to unite the revolutionary proletariat. Involved in the Munich Soviet Republic, he spent several years in prison afterwards. During the Weimar Republic, Erich Mühsam fought for the release of political prisoners as a speaker, publicist and negotiator in the Red Aid organization. He left the organization when Rote Hilfe refused to support the social revolutionaries and anarchists arrested in the Soviet Union as counter-revolutionaries. He was expelled from the Federation of Communist Anarchists of Germany because of his closeness to the KPD. He worked in many left-wing and anti-fascist organizations and was one of the most insistent warnings of the fascist danger.
Erich Mühsam was arrested on the night of the Reichstag fire. On the night of July 9-10, 1934, Erich Mühsam was murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp.
The song Streit und Kampf exemplifies what Rote Hilfe is all about: the organization of solidarity across all ideological boundaries within the left - a goal that Erich Mühsam failed to achieve in the 1920s and which must be fought for again and again today.