Swedish letters LISEBERG Partille 1943/44 to stage designers

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You bid two Swedish letters from 1943/44, addressed to the important costume and stage designer Wolf Leather (1906-2009), at this time Chief stage designer at the Berlin Plaza.

Written by one ake (according to the header of the first letter Åke Johannson; according to the envelope of the 2. Briefes Åke Jörnblad; but scripturally it is the same person).

Dated Liseberg, Partille, 4. February 1943 (first letter); the second letter also with the location Liseberg, Partille, but undated (recipient's note "Received early summer 1944").

Written in Swedish; only one sentence in the first letter ("It's a pity that I can't drive to Berlin for your new premiere") and one word ("Christmas gift") in German.

Scope: first letter: 2 pages (27.3 x 16.8cm); second letter: 2 p. (17.3 x 13 cm).

Only the second letter with envelope (this one damaged).

Condition: letters folded; Paper somewhat stained and creased. At the bottom of page 1 of the first letter, some German translations of Swedish words have been penciled between the lines. BPlease also note the pictures at the end of the item description!

Internal note: gray folder Goldschm

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About Wolf Leder (source: wikipedia):

wolf leather (* 13. January 1906 in Berlin; † 24 August 2009 in Halensee) was a German costume and stage designer.

Life: From 1923 to 1927, Wolf Leder studied costume design with Erna Schmidt-Caroll, stage design with Moriz Melzer and interior design with Herta Jess at the Reimann School in Berlin, the largest private arts and crafts school in Germany.[1] At the age of 21 he began his artistic career at the State Theater Schneidemühl. From 1927 he worked in Berlin during the golden twenties, where he already worked as an outfitter at the old Friedrichstadt-Palast.

After stints at the Great Playhouse, the Metropol-Theater, La Scala, the Winter Garden and the Admiralspalast, Leder became chief stage designer at the Berlin Plaza from 1939. During the National Socialist era, the variety theater was part of the area of ​​responsibility of the NS organization Kraft durch Freude. Leder designed sets and costumes for light-hearted entertainment and musical theatre. Leder, who was never a member of the NSDAP, helped Jewish artists and friends on several occasions during the Third Reich.

Leder had been friends with many Stars since the 1920s, including Marlene Dietrich, Zarah Leander, Heinrich George and Johannes Heesters. He also became known for his costume designs, which were quite revealing at the time, as for the actress Margit Symo.

In 1944 he was drafted into military service. After his return from American captivity, Leder was brought to the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm by Rudolf Platte in 1946 to set the stage for the play Höllenhunde.

From 1954 to 1992, Leder worked in the New Friedrichstadt-Palast as head of furnishings. After the Berlin Wall was built, he continued to shuttle back and forth between East Berlin and West Berlin. In West Berlin, Leder mainly worked at the Theater des Westens.

His last artistic work was in 1992 for the set design for the musical La Cage aux Folles at the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater in Flensburg.

For his 100th His birthday was on the 15th. December 2005 awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon.

Leder, who "was still mentally very fit"[6] into old age, died at the age of 103 in his apartment in Berlin-Halensee.