dr Ludwig Kraft (1875-1928), a friend of the painter Lovis Corinth, who was immortalized by him on some paintings (I have shown an example; the picture is not part of this offer), is turning to the writer Friedrich Freksa (1882-1955) in Munich.

Dated(according to postmark) Wilmersdorf near Berlin, 25. February 1912.

Transcription:"Dear Frederick. I am now, unimproved, to Prinz-Regentenstr. 104 Wilmersdorf and send my best regards from here, your strength."

Ludwig Kraft (*7. October 1875 in Berlin, died. 1. May 1928 ibid.) in the Berlin address book from 1913 as privateer Dr. Ludwig Kraft recorded. She is also in the work of Thomas Corinth "Lovis Corinth: a documentation", Tübingen 1979, p. 390, named as the address of Ludwig Kraft (Short biography of Ludwig Kraft in the same work on p. 375). -- Having become a millionaire after the death of his father, Kraft was particularly interested in art and philosophy. In 1911 he became terminally ill and gave up his job as a general practitioner.

Used as a postal stationery (8.8 x 13.8 cm). On flexible paper.

Condition:paper browned and stained; with corner creases. BPlease note also the pictures!

Internal note: FM 210613 in EVS 2106

About the recipient Friedrich Freksa (source: wikipedia):

Friedrich Freksa; actually Kurt Franz Georg Friedrich-Freksa (* 11. April 1882 in Wilmersdorf near Berlin; † 18 July 1955 in Berlin) was a German author and editor.

Life: Freksa was born in Berlin-Wilmersdorf as the child of the manufacturer and merchant Georg Friedrich and his wife Klara, who later committed suicide. He has written drama, poetry, novels, detective stories, screenplays, radio plays and magazine articles. The son of a wholesaler studied in Berlin, Paris and Munich. He traveled to numerous European countries, lived at times as a freelance writer in Munich and Tübingen, later back in Berlin and was friends with Hanns Heinz Ewers. He had been married to the poet Margarete Beutler since 1907, from whom he already had a son, born in 1906 (Hans Florian, later director of the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen). The enormous fortune that he inherited after the death of his father in 1913, he brought through within a year through speculation and a lavish lifestyle. He served briefly in World War I and separated from his wife in 1925 (they never divorced until 1939). In 1924 he published a biography of Korvettenkapitän Hermann Ehrhardt, leader of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, under the title Captain Ehrhardt. adventures and destinies.

In 1907 Freksa had his first major stage success with the performance of the play Ninon de l'Enclos at the Residenz Theater in Munich. The pantomime Sumurun, which premiered in 1909 under the direction of Max Reinhardt, was filmed in 1920 by Ernst Lubitsch. Freksa's first novel Phosphorus (1911) satirically describes how a philistine falls on his head and turns into a bon vivant and philanderer (and back again). 1919/20 Freksa was co-editor of the satirical magazine Phosphor. Controversial was his 1931 book Druso, or The Stolen Human World, in which the enslavement of humanity by insect-like extraterrestrials was described.[1] In 1934, Druso also appeared in the American magazine Wonder Stories.

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Ninon de l'Enclos. A game from the Baroque era. Georg Müller, Munich 1907.

The Kingdom of Epirus. Comedy in five acts. Georg Müller, Munich 1908.

Epigrams of Clement Marot, ed. by Friedrich Freksa, translated by Margarete Beutler. Georg Müller, Munich, Munich 1908.

Josef Ruederer and Cloud Cuckoo Land. A polemic. Georg Müller, Munich and Leipzig 1908.

The Torch of Eros. A cycle of drama. Reiss, Berlin 1909.

Fat Caesar. A tragic comedy. Reiss, Berlin 1911.

The Book of Phosphorus. With plates by Emil Preetorius. Georg Müller, Munich 1911.

Phosphorus. Novel. With 25 drawings by Emil Preetorius. Georg Müller, Munich 1912.

history. Georg Müller, Munich 1912.

Erwin Bernstein's theatrical broadcast. A Berlin theater novel. In two volumes. Georg Müller, Munich, Leipzig 1913.

Behind the ramp. theatrical glosses. Georg Müller, Munich 1913.

God's return. Novel. 1. part: fire. Fleischl, Berlin 1916.

The Judgment of Seleucus. A fairy tale from the Greek era. Dramatic poem in 3 acts. Liecke, Munich 1917.

Freedom. Ullstein, Berlin 1919.

turnaround. novellas. Georg Müller, Munich 1919.

debauchery. The little story, part two. Cover drawing by Emil Praetorius. Georg Müller, Munich 1919.

The land of normal people short story in: Library of the Munich youth - Volume 3 "Fantastic Stories". Munich 1919.

The Wanderer into Nothing. Novel. Georg Müller, Munich, 1920

Against the Kautsky Mache - Human justification of Wilhelm II. According to his marginal notes in the files of the Foreign Office. Rösl, Munich 1920.

Tyll Ulenspiegel by Charles de Coster. Reworked and ed. by Friedrich Freksa. With 10 hand-colored pictures by Ludwig Bock. Rösl, Munich 1920.

Prashna's secret. crime novel. Rösl, Munich 1920.

Caesar's hour. A worldly game. Georg Müller, Müller 1921.

Phosphorus. Novel. Thespis, Berlin 1921.

The Mystery of the Indian Prashna. Novel. Ernst Keil's successor (August Scherl), Leipzig 1923.

Li Tai Po. A poem. With ten etchings and eleven drawings by Richard von Below. Georg Müller, Munich 1923.

Captain Ehrhardt Adventures and Destinies. Scherl, Berlin 1924.

The red hair dryer. Novel. Grethlein, Leipzig, Zurich 1925

Putsch on Ithaca. Novel. Reclam, Leipzig 1926.

The defensive lady. Small volume of stories with 12 stories, including the visit to Potsdam, Frau von Fleury's banquet, the prisoner of Pharmacusa, Hannibal's farewell to Italy, the bishop's house, Truelsen's Övelgönne, Frau Dorlebusch and others Georg Müller, Munich 1927.

A girl travels to happiness. Sieben-Stäbe-Verlag, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1927.

waste and profits. Brunnen-Verlag Karl Winckler, Berlin 1928.

The Hussar from the Rheinsberg. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1930

Kaufmannskinder, a novel from the turn of the Berlin bourgeoisie 1895-1925. Sieben-Stäbe-Verlag, Berlin 1930.

The King's War Commissar. Novel. Scherl, Berlin 1931.

Druso or: The stolen human world. Novel. Reckendorf, Berlin 1931.

Garibaldi, the sword of Italy. Kyffhäuser Verlag, Berlin 1940.

Oh Krueger. His life - a fight against England. Brunnen-Verlag, Berlin 1941.

From yesterday - to tomorrow. Werner, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1942.

Colonel Lumpus. Hesperus, Nuremberg 1944.

Berlin travel experience. 1919, in: Robert N. Bloch: Beyond Dreams. Strange stories from the beginning of the century, Frankfurt a. M. (suhrkamp paperback 1595) 1990, pp. 97–110.