Hartmut Barth-Engelbart (pen names, among others Carl Hanau, HaBE), (born April 1947) is a German author, songwriter and graphic artist.
[2] In 1968, he began an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the Frankfurter Rundschau, but it lasted only one day, because on the following day he took part in an anti-Vietnam war demonstration in Frankfurt and fell from a canopy in the wake of political confrontations and broke his ankle joints on both feet.
[3] In 1974, Barth-Engelbart became a member of the Communist League of West Germany (KBW),[1] for which he unsuccessfully ran for office in the state elections in Hesse in 1978.
[1] In 1980, he became member of the Gewerkschaft Öffentliche Dienste, Transport und Verkehr [de], the strike leadership and the ÖTV regional board, then worked again, from 1991, in the school service.
[5] In September 2003, Barth-Engelbart initiated the Hanau Resistance Readings at Freiheitsplatz on the Viennese model.