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 is presently being overseen by Gerald Hubmann. The "MEGA" of today was not the first attempt to publish a complete collection of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their original language. Already in the 1920s and 1930s a "first MEGA" or "MEGA" was published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow under the direction of David Riazanov, a Marxist scholar and revolutionary. "MEGA" was originally intended to comprise 42 volumes, of which 12 volumes were published between 1927 and 1935. After Riazanov was removed as director of the Marx-Engels Institute in February 1931 (and killed in a perfunctory