Talk:Ernst Toller

message: *Does anybody know more information about Ernst Toller - could you help expand this page? Vino s 16:23, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That previous comment is from 1 September 2005, when the article consisted of about five sentences.  It's a lot bigger now, but if anyone wants more info from the German article I can do it--just let me knowHohenloh 01:03, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Query

message: 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)
thread_title:  Photograph 

message: 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)
replies: text: I checked this and also read the German-language article and tend to agree, and there is no reference provided for his membership, so I have changed this reference in the intro.Hohenloh  +   17:34, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Communist? 

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message: 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)
thread_title:  Together with leading anarchists, such as B. Traven?