"We feel the promise. She spoke to us in that toneend, awakening course of events. That All they learn to feel – feeling the divine anew - is our office, our message."

You are bidding on one handwritten, signed quote the writer Adele Gerhard (1868-1956).

From her 1925 novel Pfluger.

Scope:1 p. (16.3 x 20.3 cm).

Enclosed typewritten, signed accompanying letter (28.5 x 20.8 cm), dated Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 90, the 29. Nov. 1926.

The corresponding one is attached Envelope (11.7 x 18.4 cm), addressedto the autograph collector Ernst Fritz Katz in Frankfurt am Main (Head of Efka film distribution). -- From the recipient are letters to Albert Verwey (1865-1937) and William Edward Burghardt du Bois (1868-1963) verifiable; There is evidence of letters to Ernst Fritz Katz from Gottfried Benn, Theodor Lessing and Robert Jeffers.

Condition:Paper browned and somewhat stained. Accompanying letter with tear in the fold and corner crease. Into the. slight cellar smell. please beacalso watch out for the pictures!

Internal note: FM 101013

About Adele Gerhard (source: wikipedia & NDB):

Adele Gerhard, née Adele de Jonge, (b. June 1868 in Cologne; † 10 May 1956 ibid) was a German writer.

Life: Adele de Jonge was the daughter of the Jewish merchant Adolph de Jonge and his wife Caroline, née Hess (from the family of a Cologne sugar manufacturer). She spent her youth in Cologne, where she was housed in the Hohe Pforte No. was born at 17 and later went to a high school for girls. After her marriage to the judiciary and notary Stephan Gerhard, Adele Gerhard moved to Berlin with her husband in 1889. Their daughter Melitta (later a literary historian) was born in 1891 and their son Dietrich in 1896. In Berlin, Adele Gerhard maintained contacts with the labor and women's movements and was committed to the idea of ​​cooperatives. She was a founding member of the "Society for Ethical Culture". In addition to her writings on the cooperative issue and the problem of working mothers, Adele Gerhard has been publishing works of fiction since the 1990s; from 1901 she was mainly active as a writer.

Adele Gerhard's literary work consists mainly of novels and short stories. The works published up to 1917 deal with social problems, the fate of women and families and are influenced by naturalism. After that, Gerhard increasingly used a symbolic narrative style to express her religious and philosophical world of thoughts; stylistically, she approached expressionism during the 1920s.

At the beginning of the Third Reich, Adele Gerhard was exposed to government repression, although she had already converted to Protestantism with her children in 1911. After her husband died in 1936, she followed her children into American exile in 1938. Since the author only had a limited circle of readers in Germany in her last years, her works in German, which she wrote in the United States, have so far remained unpublished. Adele Gerhard returned to Germany in 1955 and lived again in Cologne. She died at the age of 87 in her apartment in Cologne-Nippes.

Her estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach and in the archive of the State University of New York in Albany.

factories

Consumer cooperative and social democracy, Nuremberg 1895

Confession, Berlin 1899

with Helene Simon: Maternity and mental work, Berlin 1901

Pilgrimage, Berlin 1902

The History of Antonie van Heese, Brunswick 1906

The Vanderhouten family, Berlin 1909

Encounter and other novellas, Leipzig 1912

From sinking and becoming, Berlin 1912

Magdalis Heimroth's Passion, Berlin 1913

The Ring of the Living, Braunschweig [among other things] 1915

At the old ditch, Berlin 1917

Language of the Earth, Berlin 1918

Lorelyn, Leipzig 1920

Way and law, Chemnitz 1924

Pfluger, Leipzig 1925

Via Sacra, Berlin 1928

The Hand of God, Leipzig 1929

The picture of my life, Wuppertal 1948

Gerhard, Adele, née de Jonge, novelist, b. Cologne, June 8, 1868, d. Cologne, May 10, 1956. (Protestant)

Genealogy: V Adolph de Jonge (1821–98), from K., Kaufm.;

M Caroline (1825–91), Td. David Hess, founder and director e. of the earliest sugar factories in K.;

⚭ Cologne 1889 →Stephan Gerhard (1857–1936), judicial councilor and notary in Berlin, author. v. comments e.g. Insurance law, S d. commercial Moritz Gerhard;

1S, 1T Dietrich (* 1896), Prof. i.e. Gesch., Melitta (* 1891), Prof. i.e. German lit.

Life: G. spent the girl years in Cologne. Her marriage took her to Berlin in 1889. She devotes herself to the social movement of the time, especially the cooperative efforts, but then, disappointed in her belief that "the change in economic conditions can serve as a basis for shaping higher human coexistence" ("Image of my life"), turns away from this area. Her early poems, such as the "History of Antonie van Heese" (1905), deal with the fate of women and social problems. – After the large-scale generation novel “The Vanderhouten Family” (1909) and the novel “Vom Sinken und Werden” (1911), which evokes memories of old Cologne, “Am alten Graben” (1917) ends the “realistic” creative period. Only now do the poems emerge that are representative of G's artistic work. "Nature", seen in the Spinozist-Goethic perspective as a "hieroglyph of God", becomes the center from which the works of mature age grow. Against the decay of values, G. puts her belief in people as "law within the law"; the archetype appears in place of the time-related depiction; balladesque-expressive language, rhythmic prose want to interpret the world in symbols. Here G. comes close to Expressionism. "Lorelyn" (1920) embodies the creaturely human; in "Pfluger" (1925) the charisma of the gifted leader is at work, his development is controlled by telos as the cause of his entelechy; "via sacra" (1928) interprets Western history as a metamorphosis of the religious. The condensing view of the polar tension between the vegetative-demonic and the spirit-determined entelecic-lawful is formed in "Gaea" (manuscript 1943/44), "Unter den|Gestirnen", "Warder of the Light", the ones created in American exile and late poetry that is no longer published. – From the USA, where she has lived since 1938, the poet returns to her native city of Cologne 1 year before her death.