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The publication brought him widespread recognition among the émigrés and put him on the watch list of the political police in Germany. Referring to Wilhelm’s recent claim for peace and promise of constitutional reform in his Easter Message of 7 April, Klabund urged the monarch to resign and thus prepare the way for a national, democratic reawakening. On 3 July 1917, Klabund published an open letter to Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859-1941) in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He quickly came into contact with the German-speaking literary community, among them Paul Cassirer (1871-1926), Ludwig Rubiner (1881-1920), and René Schickele (1883-1940).

Pacifist Turn and Involvement in Intelligence ↑įollowing medical treatment, Klabund moved to Zurich, then an intellectual refuge for pacifists and socialists from all over Europe. Due to his deteriorating health, Klabund moved to Davos in neutral Switzerland.

Several of his poems in Soldatenlieder (1914), Kleines Bilderbuch vom Krieg (1914) and Dragoner und Husaren (1916) contain hate speech and express violent xenophobia. During the following two years, he published plays and anthologies of pro-war, patriotic poetry. In August 1914, Klabund volunteered for the army, but was refused for persistent tuberculosis. Under the pen name “Klabund”, he quickly delved into the cosmopolitan bohemia in the Bavarian capital.

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In 1912, he abandoned university and chose to become a professional writer. Born as the son of a Brandenburg pharmacist, Alfred Henschke (1890-1928) studied chemistry, and later philosophy and drama, in Munich.

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