EC0162

Contains 3 poems by Fuernberg translated by Henderson,

Louis Fürnberg (* 24. Mai 1909 in Iglau; † 23. Juni 1957 in Weimar) war ein tschechoslowakisch-deutscher Schriftsteller, Dichter und Journalist, Komponist und Diplomat jüdischer Abstammung. Von ihm stammt das Lied Die Partei, das jahrelang als offizielle Hymne der SED gedient hat. [1]

Louis Fuernberg, a the son of a Jewish merchant family from Moravia, a part of Czechoslovakia which then had a substantial German-speaking population). Fuernberg joined the Communist party when he was 17, and formed an agit-prop group called "Echo from the Left." When World War II broke out, Fuernberg emigrated to Palestine. His family remained in Czechoslovakia and were all murdered after the Nazi invasion. After the war, Fuernberg made his way through Czechoslovakia to East Germany, where he became a well-known playwright and novelist. He died in 1957