Ruth Fischer
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Ruth Fischer was a German Communist, and a co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party in 1918. Along with her partner Arkadi Maslow, she led the Communist Party of Germany through both the May 1924 an
Fischer as she appeared in June 1924.
Fischer c. 1933
Fischer testifies before the before the House Un-American Activities Committee, February 1947
Hanns Eisler
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Hanns Eisler was an Austrian and German composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote
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…at Leipzig but of Austrian nationality. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Lutheran. She was the elder sister to noted film and concert composer Hanns Eisler and fellow communist activist Gerhart Eisler. She studied philosophy, economics and politics at University of Vienna, where her father was working. At…
Eisler in 1940
Eisler in uniform, 1917
Hanns Eisler (left) and Bertolt Brecht, his close friend and collaborator, East Berlin, 1950
Grave of honor of Eisler and his third wife Stephanie (Steffy) Wolf at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery