Larisa Reisner

Larissa Reissner Mikhailovna (Russian Лариса Михайловна Рейснер; * 1 Maijul / 13 May 1895greg in Lublin. . † February 9, 1926 in Moscow), also Reisner or Rejsner was a Soviet writer and alleged agent of the Comintern, which mainly in German wrote language.

Life

Larissa Reissner was the daughter of legal scholar Mikhail Reissner. She studied at universities in France and Germany. As antiwar they participated during the First World War to an anti-militarist magazine and worked on various projects of Maxim Gorky as the literary magazine Letopis and after the February 1917 revolution on the left socialist daily newspaper Novaya Zhizn with.

In 1918 she married the Soviet fleet commander Fyodor Raskolnikov. After the October Revolution, it was the Political Commissioner of the garrison in Moscow and met Karl Radek, with whom she was romantically involved until her untimely death. In May 1920, she accompanied allegedly Raskolnikov as commander of the Astrakhan Volga Flotilla in filling Enzeli (now Bandar Anzali ).

In the early 1920s, Reissner toured both the Soviet Union and Western countries and summarized their experiences in travel reports together, the most famous of Hamburg is on the barricades, a collection of reports on the Hamburg uprising in 1923. Presumably they had as an agent of the Comintern the uprising attended.

At the age of 30 years, she died of typhoid fever and was buried in the cemetery Wagankowoer in Moscow.

Works

• Hamburg on the barricades. Experiences and Erhörtes from the Hamburg uprising in 1923. Berlin 1925 PDF - 1 (1.2 MB ) PDF -2 ( 1.2 MB ) on the Internet Archive
• A journey through the German Republic. Berlin 1926