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I'm gonna guess that the German page would be a great deal more informative, especially as it seems to contain serious errors. Now if only we could get someone to translate it. I'm sure someone would happily clean up the grammar and syntax if a native German speaker took this on.
The article's entry, "German Communist playwright" does not exactly sound right. Neither is the categorisation of Ernst Toller as a "German communist" a particularly fortunate one (perhaps in contrast to Johannes R. Becher, Anna Seghers and others). As a member of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic (which was deliberately called a "Councils' Republic" in Germany instead of using the Russian term), Toller has been a "revolutionary", and in his writings he has partly propagated 'socialist' ideals. Nevertheless, Toller has never been a party member, and is most notably known as an expressionist and New Objectivity playwright. Therefore I propose a change to a less catchy attribution such as "German poet, playwright, and revolutionary" or similar (cf. the articles on Bertolt Brecht and other left-wing authors of the Weimar era).
Another suggestion: How about adding that picture of Ernst Toller from the Commons? It shows Max Weber and Ernst Toller, two major opponents of the 1917 congress Lauensteiner Tagung of artists and scientists of the Weimar Republic who wanted to explore shared positions on a possible end of WWI. -- Diggindeeper ( talk) 14:13, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I am a German student of Germanistik and recently wrote an academic paper about him. I strongly disagree with the proposed fact that Toller was "disdained" by the Nazis in 1933. Fotunately he happened to be in Switzerland at the day of the Reichstags fire and thereby escaped the arrests by the SA. He never returned to Germany and never was in a KZ. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.60.161.228 ( talk) 16:00, 25 May 2008 (UTC) For further information I recommend Richard Dove's bibliography "He was a German". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.60.161.228 ( talk) 16:03, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
As I am no native speaker I would not suggest that I'm the one to change the site - and possibly make mistakes then. I read the English article by accident and just noticed the wrong information. greets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.60.173.93 ( talk) 08:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm guessing "disdained" means "detained" in your comment? Anyways, I seem to recall the "feeding him his book" as an anecdote about some poor author. Perhaps it was someone other than toller?
In 1933, while in Germany, he was detained by the Nazis. Whilst in the concentration camp he was tortured by the guards who made him eat a complete volume of one his novels and force fed him castor oil. [1] After this incident, he was exiled from Germany.
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Toller has not been a communist, he decided very carefully not to join the communist but the social-democratic party. I'm writing this as student of the german language and I'm currently sitting in a seminar about Toller. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.99.96.51 ( talk) 13:37, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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The article about B. Traven says nothing about his having been a leader of the anarchist movement and the Bavarian Soviet republic. 62.73.69.121 ( talk) 21:19, 31 May 2024 (UTC)