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Walter Mehring (29 April 1896 – 3 October 1981) was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic. He was banned during the Third Reich, and fled the country. ==Biographical== Walter Mehring was the son of the translator and writer Sigmar Mehring. His literary career began with the Sturm and Berliner Dada movements. Beginning in the 1920s he published lyric poetry and satirical prose in various magazines and newspapers, for example the famous ''Weltbühne'' or the ''Tage-Buch''. He fought against militarism and antisemitism and considered himself an anarchist. He also wrote songs for some of the best cabarets in Berlin: Max Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch, Rosa Valetti's Café Größenwahn and for Trude Hesterberg's Wilde Bühne. Artists like George Grosz became close friends. From 1921 to 1928 he lived and worked in Paris. He was persecuted by the Nazis, particularly by Joseph Goebbels, and consequently fled the country. On 10 May 1933 his books were burnt during the Nazi book burnings.〔Mehring, Walter: The lost library: The autobiography of a culture. Secker & Warburg, 1951.〕 Mehring emigrated to Vienna, where he met the actress and writer Hertha Pauli. She was his companion during his escape from the Nazis through France. He dedicated his "Briefe zur Mitternacht" to her. The period spent in France he also described in ''No Road Back''.〔Mehring, Walter: No Road back. S. Curl, 1944.〕 When the Nazis occupied France he was briefly imprisoned in an internment camp. He managed to escape and together with Hertha Pauli he wandered around France, meeting many other people on the run from the Nazis: Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler-Werfel, Heinrich Mann, Leonhard Frank, Emil Gumbel.〔Pauli, Hertha: Break of Time. Hawthorn Book, 1972.〕 In Marseilles they met Varian Fry (Emergency Rescue Committee), who helped them to escape.〔Fry, Varian: Surrender on Demand. Random House, 1945.〕 He emigrated to the United States. With the aid of the European Film Fund he got employment with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He also wrote articles for ''Aufbau'' and became a naturalized US citizen, but never really managed to settle in the United States and returned to Europe after the war. In Europe he was unable to replicate his earlier successes. In 1981 he died in Zurich. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Mehring」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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