Ron Kurtenbach
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Ron Kurtenbach is a Lincoln, Nebraska communist born in 1943. An enthusiastic community activist, he is one of the original group which founded local Lincoln radio station KZUM-FM. He is also one of the group which founded the short-lived Lincoln Communist music venue, The Red and Black Café, in the early 1990s. Many Lincoln bands, including Plastik Trumpet and Our Slave played there.
He was a long-time housekeeper at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He got his Ph.D. in English, and taught briefly.
Kurtenbach is most well-known for his long-running controversial public-access call-in show, Ron's World, that was seen nightly on local Lincoln cable TV. On the program, he explained the basics of Marxist thinking, read poetry and spent most of the time discussing his politics with the general public.
Kurtenbach's stature as a local cult figure grew to the point that he once was the host of a public school "celebrity" basketball charity event.
In the early 2000s, Kurtenbach remarried and moved to China, to teach English there.
