Mau Mau uprising
Independence movement of the African population in Kenya against the colonial power Britain. The armed struggle began in 1952 and led to Kenya's independence in 1963.
Mayer, Hans
1907-2001, German literary scholar. After 1933, he first lived in France, and then later on in Switzerland in exile. After the war he returned to Germany and, from 1948 to 1963 lived in the Soviet-occupied zone/GDR; following a trip to West Germany in 1963, he decided not to return to the GDR.
McCarthyism
The era named after the Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy (from 1947 to 1956) in which alleged communists were subjected to extensive investigation and persecution. Many liberals and artists were denounced against the backdrop of the cold war
Meier-Graefe, Annemarie
1905-1994, widow of art historian Julius Meier-Graefe, who settled in 1930 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer; she married the writer Hermann Broch in 1949 while in American exile
Melzer, Margarete
1906-1959, German actress, lived in Berlin, performed e.g. in the film M by Fritz Lang.
Mencken, Henry Louis
1880-1956, American journalist and literary critic, editor of magazines The Smart Set and The American Mercury. Criticised for non-critical attitude towards Nazism, later reviled for racist, anti-Semitic remarks.
Méndez, Leopoldo
1902-1969, Mexican graphic artist. Co-founder of the “Taller de Gráfica Popular”. Strongly politically engaged, participated in numerous publications for the exile publishing house El Libro Libre.
Millington Singe, John
1871-1909, irischer Dramatiker und Reiseschriftsteller. Sein Werk Riders on the Sea entstand im Jahr 1904.
Miro, Joan
(1893-1983), Spanish painter, graphic artist, sculptor and ceramist, was influenced by Cubism, Fauvism, Dadaism, and Surrealism and today is considered an important representative of Classic Modernism.
Modern Architectural Research Group,
also known as the MARS Group, was an association of British architects which was founded in 1933 to support the Modernist architects.
