Adam Scharrer
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Adam Scharrer (13 July 1889, Kleinschwarzenlohe – 2 March 1948, Schwerin) was a German writer.
He was born to Johann Scharrer and Margareta Haas.[1]
He joined the Communist Workers' Party of Germany in 1920.[2]
He remained active in the party until 1933.[3] However with the Nazi seizure of power he went was a wanted man and went underground in Berlin before fleeing to Czechoslovakia. Here, in 1934, he received an invitation from the Union of Writers of the USSR to come to the Soviet Union. Here he joined a writers' colony in Moscow. Although he spent a short time in Ukraine but returned to Moscow. During this period he got to know Oskar Maria Graf.[4]
Works
[edit]- Vaterlandslose Gesellen (1930) Stateless Journeymen, often seen as a response to Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Adam Scharrer". www.myheritage.com. MyHeritage Ltd. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ "Heimat-Geschichtsverein". www.heimat-geschichtsverein.de. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ "Scharrer, Adam - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ Bourrinet, Phillippe (1921). Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands Ausserordentlicher Öffentlicher Parteitag der K.A.P.D (annotated) (PDF).
- ^ BERICHT ÜBER DEN GRÜNDUNGSPARTEITAG DER KAPD AM 4. UND 5. APRIL 1920 IN BERLIN*, ** (PDF).
Sources
[edit]- Féral, T. (2002): Adam Scharrer: Ecrivain antifasciste et militant paysan, Paris: Harmattan.
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