Pen name Sagitta Subject political philosophy Occupation writer Name John Mackay | Nationality dual British/German Role Writer Genre non fiction Literary movement Naturalism | |
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Born February 6, 1864
Greenock, Scotland ( 1864-02-06 ) Notable works Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists)
Der Freiheitsucher (The Searcher for Freedom) Died May 16, 1933, Berlin, Germany Books The hustler, Max Stirner: His Life and, Rebel Yell: Updated, John Henry Mackay: Shorter Fi, Die Anarchisten Similar People Max Stirner, Richard Strauss, Benjamin Tucker, Friedrich Ruckert, Heinrich Heine | ||
Richard Strauss - "Morgen!" op 27 nr 4 (tekst John Henry Mackay)
John Henry Mackay (6 February 1864 – 16 May 1933) was an individualist anarchist, thinker and writer. Born in Scotland and raised in Germany, Mackay was the author of Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists, 1891) and Der Freiheitsucher (The Searcher for Freedom, 1921). Mackay was published in the United States in his friend Benjamin Tucker's magazine, Liberty. He was a noted homosexual.
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- Richard Strauss Morgen op 27 nr 4 tekst John Henry Mackay
- Morgen richard strauss op 27 no 4 john henry mackay russell malcolm tomorrow
- Life
- Writing and influence
- References
Morgen richard strauss op 27 no 4 john henry mackay russell malcolm tomorrow
Life
Mackay was born in Greenock on February 6, 1864. His mother came from a prosperous Hamburg family. His father was a Scottish marine insurance broker who died when the child was less than two years old, at which point mother and son returned to Germany, where Mackay grew up.
Mackay lived in Berlin from 1896 onwards, and became a friend of scientist and Gemeinschaft der Eigenen co-founder Benedict Friedlaender.
Mackay died in Stahnsdorf on 16 May 1933, ten days after the Nazi book burnings at the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. Adolf Hitler had become Reichskanzler on 30 January 1933 and all activities of the German homosexual emancipation movement soon ceased. Allegations that Mackay's death may have been a suicide have been disputed:
Mackay died on 16 May 1933 in the office of his doctor, only a few houses from his own, apparently of a heart attack. He was also suffering from stones in his bladder.
Writing and influence
Using the pseudonym Sagitta, Mackay wrote a series of works for pederastic emancipation, titled Die Bücher der namenlosen Liebe (Books of the Nameless Love). This series was conceived in 1905 and completed in 1913 and included the Fenny Skaller, a story of a pederast. Under his real name he also published fiction, such as Der Schwimmer (1901) and, again as Sagitta, he published a pederastic novel of the Berlin boy-bars, Der Puppenjunge (literally "The Boy-Doll", but published in English as The Hustler) (1926). In a note to the American publisher of this book, Christopher Isherwood said, "It gives a picture of the Berlin sexual underworld early in this century which I know, from my own experience, to be authentic."
Richard Strauss's well-known songs from his Vier Lieder (Op. 27), a wedding gift to his wife in 1894, include settings to music of two of Mackay's poems: "Morgen!" and "Heimliche Aufforderung". Other uses of Mackay's poems by Strauss include "Verführung" (Op. 33 No. 1) and "In der Campagna" (Op. 41 No. 2).
Arnold Schoenberg set music to his poem "Am Wegrand."