Zeppo Marx was from East Frisia in Germany; and his father was a native of France, and worked as a tailor. As with all of the Marx Brothers, there are different theories as to where Zeppo got his stage name: Groucho said in his Carnegie Hall concert in 1972 that the name was derived from the Zeppelin airship. Zeppo's ex-wife Barbara Sinatra repeated this in her 2011 book, "Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank". His brother Harpo offered a different account in his 1961 autobiography, "Harpo Speaks!," claiming (p. 130) that there was a popular trained chimpanzee named Mr. Zippo, and
Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) is the largest collection of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in German or any language. "MEGA" is an ongoing and incomplete project which is ultimately intended to reproduce the complete extant works of both authors. Initially issued by the Institutes of Marxism-Leninism of the SED in Berlin and the CPSU in Moscow and published by "Dietz Verlag" (Berlin) as a series launched in 1975, "MEGA" contains all works published by Marx and Engels in their lifetimes and numerous unpublished manuscripts and letters. All material in "MEGA" is edited in the original language it was