Works by Mühsam in English translation: [Untitled; message to Alexander Berkman on his 60th Birthday] in: Henry G. Alsberg et al. Alexander Berkman sixtieth birthday celebration, November twentieth, nineteen thirty, Central Opera House, New York City. New York: Martin Press, 1930 [n.p.] “The Artist in the Future State” [Die Künstler in Zukunftsstaat] (translated by Christopher Winks), Soup 3 (1983). “The Artist in the Future State” (translated by Christopher Winks), in Max Blechman (ed.). Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1999. ISBN 0872863514 (pbk.) [citylights | google | openlibrary | worldcat] “The Death of the Red Guardist” [“Der Tod des Rotgardisten”], KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 27, July 2001. [ksl] “Every evening I throw” / “Jeden Abend werfe ich” [youtube] “Every evening away I toss” / “Jeden Abend werfe ich” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2009) [bachlund.org | recmusic.org] “Freedom as a Social Principle,” Black Flag Quarterly, Autumn 1984, p.29. “I will go alone over the mountain” / “Ich will alleine über die Berge gehn” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2009) [bachlund.org | recmusic.org] “I would be God and hear prayers” / “Ich möchte Gott sein” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2009) [bachlund.org | recmusic.org] [“Child and Peacock”] / “Kind und Pfau” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2009) [bachlund.org | recmusic.org] Judas: A Workers' Drama in Five Acts. [Judas: Arbeiter-Drama in fünf Akten.] Translated by Chris Edmonston, 10 July 2009. [http://erichinenglish.org/judas.html] “Lazybones” / “Der Faulpelz” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2009) [bachlund.org | recmusic.org] Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings: A Political Reader. Edited and translated by Gabriel Kuhn. Oakland: PM Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-60486-055-9 [google | merlin | pmpress | worldcat] The Liberation of Society from the State. Translated by Chris Edmonston, 13 September 2008. [http://erichinenglish.org/liberation.html] “O hehre Sangeskunst” (set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2009) [bachlund.org] “Poet and Freedom Fighter” / “Dichter und Kämpfer” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2010) [bachlund.org] “The Premonition” / “Die Ahnung” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2010) [bachlund.org | recmusic.org] “The Prisoner,” Organize! for Revolutionary Anarchism, No. 67 (Autumn 2006), p.26. [afed.org.uk] Reasons of State: A Memorial for Sacco and Vanzetti. [Staatsräson. Ein Denkmal für Sacco und Vanzetti.] Translated by Chris Edmonston, 23 August 2007. [http://erichinenglish.org/reasons.html] “Rendezvous” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2010) [recmusic.org] [“Rules for Living”] / “Lebensregel” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2010) [bachlund.org] “Song of the Intellectuals” / “Gesang der Intellektuellen” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2010) [bachlund.org] [“Song of the Young Anarchists”] / “Gesang der jungen Anarchisten” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2009) [bachlund.org | cf. recmusic.org] Thunderation!/Alle Wetter!: Folk Play With Song and Dance/Volksstück Mit Gesang Und Tanz (translated, edited, and introduced by David A. Shepherd). Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2001. ISBN 0838754163 [google | openlibrary | worldcat] “What is a man?” / “Was ist der Mensch?” (translated and set to music by Gary Bachlund, 2009) [bachlund.org | recmusic.org] ----------------------------- English-language materials about Mühsam “Erich Muehsam Quits Red Aid,” New York Times. Sunday Section: Editorial. March 24, 1929. p.55, 157 words. [nytimes] “Erich Muehsam (1868-1934)”, MAN!: A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement, Vol.2, No.8 (August 1934), p.136. [online at hamline.edu; reprinted as “Erich Muehsam (1868-1934)“ in Marcus Graham (ed.). MAN! An Anthology of Anarchist Ideas, Essays, Poetry and Commentaries. London: Cienfuegos Press, 1974, pp.481-85; illustration on p.482. The article quotes from the New York Times, 20 July 1934, account of Mühsam’s murder] “The Nazi Beasts”, MAN!: A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement, Vol.3, No.1 (January 1935). [online at hamline.edu] “erich muehsam. Poet, playwright, bohemian, anarchist revolutionary,” Organize! for Revolutionary Anarchism, No. 67, Autumn 2006, p.26. [with English translation of an excerpt of Mühsam's poem “The Prisoner”; online at afed.org.uk] Baron, Lawrence. The Eclectic Anarchism of Erich Mühsam. New York: Revisionist Press, 1976. ISBN 0-87700-228-2 [google | openlibrary | worldcat] Baron, Lawrence. “Erich Mühsam's Jewish Identity,” Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, Vol.25, No.1, 1980, pp.269-284. Bronner, Stephen Eric. “Persistent Memories of the German Revolution: The Jewish Activists of 1919,” New Politics, Vol.5, no.2 (new series), no.18, Winter 1995. [nova.wpunj.edu] Bronner, Stephen Eric. Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times. Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0415932610 [Mühsam receives a couple of pages]|[google | worldcat] C. Pisacane Group of Paris. “The Nazi Regime at Work: Erich Mühsam”, MAN!: A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement, Vol.2, No.3 (March 1934), p.99. [online at hamline.edu; recounts details of Mühsam's torture] Fähnders, Walter. “Anarchism and Homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany: Senna Hoy, Erich Mühsam, John Henry Mackay,” Journal of Homosexuality, 1540-3602, Vol.29, No.2, 1995, pp.117-154; reprinted in: Hekma, Gert, Harry Oosterhuis, James D. Steakley (eds.). Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left. Haworth Press, 1995. pp.117-153. ISBN 156024724X [pp.130-138 deal with Müsam in particular]|[google] Fishman, Sterling. Prophets, Poets and Priests: A Study of the Men and Ideas that Made the Munich Revolution of 1918/1919. University of Wisconsin dissertation. 1960. vi, 339 pages. [google | worldcat] Grunfeld, Frederic V. Prophets Without Honour. A Background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein and Their World. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. ISBN 0-03-017871-1 [pp.115-129] Hecht, Ben. Erik Dorn. New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press (G. P. Putnam's Sons), 1921. [a novel set in the time of the Munich Council Republic in which Mühsam is referred to briefly] Johnson, Paul. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001. ISBN 0060935502 [containing a brief description of Mühsam's murder, excerpted at: mistermuckle.blogspot.com] Kalechofsky, Roberta. “My Poor Prisoner,” in Roberta Kalechofsky. Job Enters A Pain Clinic & Other Stories. Marblehead, Massachusetts: Micah Publications, 2005. ISBN 0-916288-51-X [a story based on Mühsam] Kugler-Weiemann, Heidemarie. "Mengstraße 4 - Erich Mühsam". Stolpersteine für Lübeck. 2008; English translation by Glenn Sellick and Martin Harnisch, 2010. [stolpersteine-luebeck.de] Lamb, Stephen. “Intellectuals and the challenge of power. The case of the Munich ‘Räterepublik’.” in: Anthony Phelan (ed.). The Weimar Dilemma. Intellectuals in the Weimar Republic. Manchester/Dover, New Hampshire: Manchester University Press, 1985 [ISBN 0719009499], pp.132-161. Lewin, Roland. “Erich Mühsam 1878-1934”. Supplement to Le monde libertaire 143 (June 1968). [reprinted as Roland Lewin, “Erich Muehsam, 1878-1934: The Man and His Work,” Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review, no.3, 1977, pp. 84-86.] W.R. “Erich Mühsam” Freedom. Anarchist Fortnightly. Vol.8, No.17 (23 August 1947), p.6. Shepherd, David A. From Bohemia to the Barricades: Erich Mühsam and the Development of a Revolutionary Drama. Series: American University Studies, Series Xxvi: Theatre Arts. NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 1993. ISBN 0820421227 [cf. review in Journal of European Studies, June, 1995 by Richard Sheppard] Steakley, J. D. Anarchism and Culture: The Political and Cultural Theories of Erich Muehsam&quo. thesis, Cornell University, 1986, DAI, VOL. 47-02A, Page 0628 J.T. “Erich Mühsam,” Anarchy 54. Vol.5 No.8 (August 1965), pp.255-256 [with black and white illustration of Mühsam on cover and p.255]. Weber, Otto. “The Death of Erich Mühsam” Freedom. Anarchist Fortnightly. Vol.8, No.21 (18 October 1947), p.7. Winks, Christopher. “Erich Mühsam: In Defense of Literary High Treason,” in: Max Blechman (ed.). Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1999 [xii, 250 pages, illustrated. ISBN 0872863514 (pbk.) &124; STANDARD #: UKM b99W8145], pp.179-184. [citylights | google | openlibrary | worldcat]