Prager linke Kreise : "Unsichtbare" Autorinnen der Arbeiter-Illustrierten Zeitung Hedda Zinner, Alex Wedding, Lenka Reinerová
| Title in English | Prague left-wing circles : ‘Invisible’ women authors of the Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Hedda Zinner, Alex Wedding, Lenka Reinerová |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This paper examines the activities of Hedda Zinner, Alex Wedding and Lenka Reinerová for the communist magazine ‘Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung’ (AIZ), which was exiled to Czechoslovakia in March 1933. Zinner, Wedding and Reinerová were primarily communist authors and actors during this period. However, this ideological affiliation did not have a constant meaning, especially in the exile period between 1933 and 1938. In 1935/1936, the AIZ was transformed from a one-dimensional communist paper into an organ of the Popular Front (Volksfront), in which many non-communist opponents of Hitler, most frequently Heinrich Mann, published - albeit in accordance with the current communist party doctrine and dictated by the Comintern. On the other hand, the texts and other activities of the three authors show how intensive their contact with Czechoslovakian artists of German and Czech language was and how quickly it could be established. For this reason, the authors of the AIZ form one of the ‘Prague circles’ - a left-wing activist and an intercultural one. |
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