A group of international historians warned that documentaries like the ones produced by Knopp could reduce important historic facts to mere infotainment
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Kurt Eisner
Kurt Eisner was a German politician, revolutionary, journalist, and theatre critic. As a socialist journalist, he organized the socialist revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918, which led to him being described as "the symbol of the Bavarian revolution". Eisner subsequently proclaimed the People's State of Bavaria but was assassinated by far-right Bavarian n…
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politics · German politician, revolutionary and journalist · politician · writer · journalist · head of government · foreign minister · minister · also Kurt Eisner, Eisner
Born 14 May 1867 · Died 21 February 1919 · Q76440
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2004· 2 entries
“The End of the Mannerist Century”
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1989· 1 entry
A monument was installed in the pavement at the site of Eisner's assassination
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1986· 2 entries
“Of Poetry and Women and the World”
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“Poetry at Women's Music Festivals: Oil and Water”
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1976· 1 entry
“The Architecture of Luis Barragán”
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1961· 1 entry
“An interview with James Baldwin”
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1957· 1 entry
“Wyndham Lewis Against Abstract Art”
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1942· 1 entry
“An Old Man on the River Bank”
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1925· 1 entry
And was on probation until 1927, when he was pardoned
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1924· 1 entry
Was evicted from his cell to make way for Adolf Hitler
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1920· 1 entry
Reichswehr soldiers and high school students sabotaged it, using weapons from the military arsenal
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1919· 2 entries
Died 1919-02-21.
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“The Socialist Nation and the Artist”
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1917· 1 entry
At the height of World War I, and was convicted of treason in 1918 for his role in inciting a strike of munitions workers
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1900· 1 entry
But in 1905 was called upon to resign by a majority of the editorial board, which favored more orthodox Marxists
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1898· 1 entry
Although for tactical reasons, German Social-Democracy, particularly in its later stages, rather cold-shouldered anything in the shape of republican propaganda as unnecessary and included in general Social-Democratic aim
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-05-14.
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1851· 1 entry
“Similes, Parables and Fables”
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