You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed album sheet (cardboard card) of the writer Wilhelm Michel (1877-1942), the 1925 Büchner Prize received. -- The sheet also dates from 1925.

With a beautiful one Hölderlin quote(Michel wrote several works about Friedrich Hölderlin).

"To know little, but to enjoy much

Is given to mortals (Hölderlin).

Wilhelm Michel."

Card (11.2 x 14.2 cm), with printed initials of the autograph hunter (BH) on the back.

Autographs by Wilhelm Michsel are rare!

Attached are two small newspaper clippings from 1925, one of which is about the reading at which this autograph was given (on January 7th). November 1925 in the lecture hall of the Keißner bookstore in Gießen) and one about the awarding of the Büchner Prize to Wilhelm Michel.

Condition:Card a bit stained. Please note the pictures too!

Internal note: Ostbhf Vorphila 23-10-08 (8) Autograph Autograph Literature

About Wilhelm Michel (source: wikipedia):

Wilhelm Michel (*9. August 1877 in Metz, German Empire; † 16. April 1942 in Darmstadt) was a German writer.

Life: Michel grew up in Frankenstein (Palatinate) and studied philology and law in Würzburg and Munich. In 1901 he settled in Munich as a freelance writer. From 1910 to 1913 Michel worked as a newspaper correspondent in Paris. In 1913 he worked in Darmstadt as an editor for the magazine German Art and Decoration. In 1919 Michel was one of the founding members of the Darmstadt Secession, of which he was secretary. Since then he has written art and theater reviews for the Hessischer Volksfreund.

Michel has published about Friedrich Hölderlin since 1911. On the occasion of its 150th Michel gave his birthday speech in front of the Darmstadt Free Literary-Artistic Society on the 23rd. March 1920 gave a lecture entitled Speech about Hölderlin. He ended the series of publications in 1940 with a comprehensive biography of the poet. He also dealt with religious topics and was friends with the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. As early as 1922, Michel wrote a pamphlet against anti-Semitism, which appeared under the title Betrayal of Germanness.

From 1906 to 1930, Michel worked for the magazine Die Weltbühne, among other things. In February 1933 there was a falling out with the editor Carl von Ossietzky because Michel had opposed the performance of Bertolt Brecht's play Saint Joan of the Slaughterhouses in Darmstadt. Michel had on the 1st February 1933 in the Kölnische Rundschau described the resistance to the piece as “a happy movement of unbroken life instincts against an artistically disguised attempt to murder our souls”. Carl Zuckmayer later described him as an “intolerant, vicious Nazi follower”.

Since 1929, Michel was a regular author in the Eckart magazine with around thirty articles. Sheets for Protestant intellectual culture. The magazine was published by Kurt Ihlenfeld until 1968, the year it was last published.

Wilhelm Michel died on the 16th. April 1942 in Darmstadt and was buried in the old cemetery (grave site: II Mauer 53).

Family: Wilhelm Michel's first marriage was to Rosa Eva Storck (* 20. December 1881 Ludwigshafen). The marriage had six children, including the painter Heinz Michel (1903-1972), the KPD activist Fritz Michel (1906-1979) - he was imprisoned in the Osthofen concentration camp in 1933 and became a British spy in later years. Research has cast doubt on the biological paternity of the youngest daughter Anny Michel (1907–1955), the mother of the church musician and composer Josef Michel and grandmother of the church musician and composer Johannes Matthias Michel. Another great-granddaughter is the psychiatrist Eva Meisenzahl.

After divorcing in 1909, Wilhelm Michel and Anita Traboldi married in 1910. His second wife - she died of influenza in 1912 - was the divorced wife of his friend and colleague René Prévot. In 1915, Wilhelm Michel and the textile artist Herta Koch, a daughter of the publisher Alexander Koch, married. The marriage resulted in three children.

Michel's first wife Rosa Michel - her second marriage was the poet and writer Karl Schloß - was born on January 6th. Murdered in the Ravensbrück concentration camp in January 1944: As a member of the Protestant faith, she had refused a divorce from her Jewish husband. The actress Sybille Schloß (1910–2007) came from her marriage to Karl Schloß.

Quote

“We do not stop believing and hoping, but our faith and hope are buried daily, and daily we have to dig them up again.”

– Wilhelm Michel: Confession to the Church. Eckart Verlag, Witten/Berlin 1953 (first edition 1932), p. 10

Award

1925: Büchner Prize

Honor

Wilhelm-Michel-Strasse in Darmstadt-Bessungen

From 1906 to 1930, Michel worked for the magazine Die Weltbühne, among other things. In February 1933 there was a falling out with the editor Carl von Ossietzky because Michel had opposed the performance of Bertolt Brecht's play Saint Joan of the Slaughterhouses in Darmstadt. Michel had on the 1st February 1933 in the Kölnische Rundschau described the resistance to the piece as “a happy movement of unbroken life instincts against an artistically disguised attempt to murder our souls”. Carl Zuckmayer later described him as an “intolerant, vicious Nazi follower”. Family: Wilhelm Michel's first marriage was to Rosa Eva Storck (* 20. December 1881 Ludwigshafen). The marriage had six children, including the painter Heinz Michel (1903-1972), the KPD activist Fritz Michel (1906-1979) - he was imp