Non-fiction
Dreamers
When the Writers took Power
Volker Weidermann
© Pushkin Press
Autumn 1918: After the end of the First World War many things briefly seemed possible. The November Revolution established the Weimar Republic, and local revolutionary uprisings took place throughout Germany. In Munich, intellectuals under the leadership of the writers Ernst Toller, Gustav Landauer and Erich Mühsam strove for power. The utopia of radical pacifism, the Munich Soviet Republic, lasted only a few months and was violently ended by government troops and Freikorps.
Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut