[PDF] Erich Weinert

Who is Erich Weinert?

Erich Bernhard Gustav Weinert (4 August 1890 in Magdeburg – 20 April 1953 in Berlin) was a German Communist writer and a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Weinert was born in 1890 in Magdeburg to a family with Social Democratic beliefs.

When did Erich Weinert join the Communist Party?

In 1929, he joined the Communist Party of Germany. Weinert's works were always political, and the role of political poet, agitator, and satirist were gradually assumed, as best seen in his collections Theater of the Apes (1925) and Erich Weinert Speaks (1930).

Who was Johannes Weinert?

Weinert was born in 1890 in Magdeburg to a family with Social Democratic beliefs. He attended a boys-only school in Magdeburg and from 1908 to 1910 visited the arts, crafts and trade school in the city, then going to an art school in Berlin in 1912.

Did Erich Weinert write Der heimliche Aufmarsch?

Der heimliche Aufmarsch (English: "The secret deployment") is a poem by Erich Weinert written in 1929. In 1930, Wladimir Vogel composed music to it, and there is one extant recording of this original melody with Weinert himself providing the vocals.