Oskar Maria Graf
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Oskar Maria Graf was a German-American writer who wrote several narratives about life in Bavaria, mostly autobiographical. In the beginning, Graf wrote under his real name Oskar Graf. After 1918, his
Oskar Maria Graf (left) with Gottlieb Branz (right) in 1958
Portrait of Oskar Maria Graf (1927) by Georg Schrimpf
Statue of Oskar Maria Graf in his hometown of Berg by Max Wagner (born 1956)
Bavarian Soviet Republic
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The Bavarian Soviet Republic, also known as Bavarian Council Republic or the Munich Soviet Republic, was a short-lived unrecognised socialist state in Bavaria during the German revolution of 1918–1919
Oskar Maria Graf
…become his second wife, Mirjam Sachs, the sister of Manfred George and a cousin of Nelly Sachs. In 1919, Graf was arrested again for participating in revolutionary movements in Munich. In 1920, he was active as a dramaturg at the working-class theater Die neue Bühne ("The new stage"), until he achieved literary fame in 1927…
Eugen Leviné, head of the second and more radical government of the Bavarian Soviet Republic