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You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed postcard ofAustrian writer, art critic and essayist Karl Emerich Hirt (1866-1963).

DatedInnsbruck, 29. May 1939 (postmark dated 30. May 1939).

Addressed to the editor of the Daz (Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung) in Berlin. With receipt stamp of the Daz post office dated 31. May 1939.

With interesting content: "Editorial in spirit! I thank you and Werner Fiedler, who wrote the strong-hearted introduction to 'Experience and Metamorphosis' (28.5.39) and made the wonderfully sensitive selection of high poetic words, with a moved heart for this God-consecrated Pentecost devotion. With these two pages of your paper you have helped our people in a graceful way to their spiritual and moral development!‒ 'When enthusiasm dies, the gods die,' says Hölderlin; I add: ' ‒ and with them the nations.' ‒ With a heartfelt German greeting: KE Hirt."

The mentioned Werner Fiedler was a journalist and film critic at the Daz .

Format: 14.7 x 10.3 cm.

Condition:Browned and somewhat stained, ins. Good. Please notee also the pictures!

Internal note: Folder 7d/7

About KE Hirt and the Daz (source: wikipedia):

Karl Emerich Hirt, also known under the pseudonyms Nemesius, Austriacus and KEH (* 19. December 1866 in Opava, Silesia; † 24 January 1963 in Innsbruck) was an Austrian writer, art critic and essayist.

Life and work: In 1868 his family moved to Vienna. From 1872 he attended elementary school in Döbling, then various high schools and the commercial school in Vienna, but without graduating with the Matura. In 1890 Hirt joined the Austro-Hungarian Bank. He worked alternately in branches in Vienna and Innsbruck. In 1913 he was elected head of the branch in Innsbruck, a position he held until his retirement as Chief Inspector of the Austrian National Bank in 1923.

Until then, Hirt was mainly a poet, but after that he also wrote novellas. His first poem was published in Peter Rossegger's home garden. Hirt was acquainted with Ferdinand von Saar, Adolf Wilbrandt (with whom Hirt had a lasting friendship) and later Anton Wildgans, who encouraged his poetic work. He was also in an intensive correspondence with Albin Egger-Lienz. He would have liked to become a painter himself, but had to give this up due to financial concerns.

As an art critic and essayist, Hirt has appeared in numerous lectures and articles in Tyrolean daily newspapers, especially in the Innsbrucker Nachrichten and the Tiroler Nachrichten. In 1914 he tried in vain to work at the Brenner. In 1919 he came into conflict with Ludwig von Ficker over a reading organized by Otto König, which resulted in a satirical attack by Karl Kraus in the Fackel number Innsbruck and Others.

factories

The Army of God. The Confession of a German. Innsbruck: Deutsche Buchdruckerei Gesellschaft mbH 1914

Pentecost. A mountain devotion. Innsbruck: Wagner 1916

God is victorious. The war diary of a German. Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich: Tyrolia 1919

Contessa Hekuba. Award-winning novella. Vienna, Leipzig: Kultur-Verlag 1925 (The Culture, 11, 1925)

people from Austria. novellas. Berlin, Vienna, Leipzig: Zsolnay 1937

Gloria in dolores. For the 50th anniversary of the death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Zurich, Leipzig, Vienna: Amalthea 1948 (Famous Women in World History 4)

The Holy War. For the Goethe Year MCMIL. viii Song from the epic Der Heereszug Gottes. Innsbruck: Inn-Verlag 1949

Goethe and the Polish Viktusza. novella. Innsbruck: Inn-Verlag 1949

Perfect ways. Three novellas. Hg. Fritz Eichler. Heidelberg: Odertor-Verlag 1960

The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung ( Daz ) was published in Berlin from 1861 to 1945. Until the end of 1918 it was called the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.

History: Monarchy: "Bismarcks Hauspostille", conservative "government newspaper" until 1917: It emerged from the "Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung", which was founded in 1837 and was published by Heinrich Brockhaus. His son Eduard Brockhaus not only published the paper, but also edited it himself from 1857 to 1883. Its political orientation also shaped the newspaper: although the social democrat Wilhelm Liebknecht was part of the founding editorial team, the newspaper soon developed a national-liberal to conservative profile.

The shareholders from 1872 belonged to the Hamburg circle of friends around Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who was led by Albertus Ohlendorff and his brother Heinrich. In the initial phase, Norddeutsche Bank was another key shareholder to provide the required purchase price of 800,000 marks.[1] The newspaper was always close to the government ("Bismarck's house postille"), and at times was directly financed by a reptile fund of the Foreign Office.[2] The previous owner, August Brass (1818–1876), was in charge of editing until 1872. He then resigned and sold the newspaper because he was reluctant to be demoted to “Bismarck's writer” and submit every editorial to the government. The circulation of the newspaper under his successor Emil Pindter (1836-1897) collapsed by half to 5000. The paper went mainly to higher officials and other newspaper editors. In 1894/95, Martin Griesemann took over as editor-in-chief, who often had to be replaced by publishing director Count Rudolph von Westarp due to illness. After Griesemann's death in 1897, Wilhelm Lauser took over the helm, followed by Otto Runge, who ran the paper until 1917.

1917–1920: Attempt to establish the NAZ/ Daz as the liberal-conservative German “Times”.

In 1917, the publisher Reimar Hobbing acquired the newspaper, which had previously been "official" and was to give it a democratic profile shortly before the collapse of the German Empire, with the aim of creating a German "Times". Liberal intellectuals such as Otto Flake, who headed the feuilleton for a short time, were won over to work. In addition, important historians such as the then twenty-two-year-old Egmont Zechlin and Friedrich Meinecke (founding rector of the Free University of Berlin after the Second World War) worked for the paper.

After the end of the First World War, the "Norddeutsche Allgemeine" was founded on 12. November 1918 as " Daz " in Berlin, after the Workers' and Soldiers' Council under Felix Stössinger had occupied the premises of the newspaper in the first two days of the revolution and the newspaper was published under the heading "Internationale". The new owner, Reimar Hobbing, received support from Otto Karl Stollberg with the transformation into the “ Daz ”. During the time of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, the Daz was one of the internationally best-known and most renowned newspapers, alongside the Berliner Tageblatt, the Vossische Zeitung and the Frankfurter Zeitung. That is why the loss-making newspaper was able to survive. In terms of orientation, it was more conservative and state-supporting than the other three newspapers.

1920–1933: Stinnes era and “Ruhrlade”: right-wing conservative voice of heavy industry in the Ruhr: Hugo Stinnes (industrialist and member of the Reichstag for the DVP) was the owner of the Daz from 1920 to 1924 after the publisher’s heirs sold Hobbing. He first appointed the government spokesman Rudolf Cuno as editor-in-chief, and the former naval attaché in Turkey Hans Humann was appointed as the publishing manager. thrown out.[3] Otto Gysae, writer and, like Humann, German nationalist and former naval officer, worked from 1920 to 1923 as head of the feuilleton as successor to the liberal Flake. From 1922 to 1925, the former SPD member of the Reichstag, Paul Lensch, headed the editorial team, who had previously headed the foreign policy editorial team and from 1914 to 1918 to the Lensch-Cunow-Haenisch group in the SPD and to the circle around Alexander Parvus (1910-1914 economic-political adviser to the Young Turks in Constantinople). During this time, the newspaper embarked on an increasingly conservative course and was even briefly banned at the end of 1922 because it allegedly supported the Kapp Putsch. The editor-in-chief Lensch – a former SPD party leftist close to Rosa Luxemburg – was expelled from the SPD. After Lensch's death in 1925, Fritz Klein became editor-in-chief.

In mid-August 1925, at the beginning of the decline of the Stinnes empire, the newspaper was sold together with the Norddeutsche Buchdruckerei- und Verlags AG for 3 million marks to a Berlin consortium led by the paper industrialist Walter Salinger and the democratic Reichstag candidate and former National Liberal MP August Weber. [4] The "right-wing press" feared that "'national' circles" could lose power over this "important organ", although it was assured that the newspaper would maintain its political direction.[5] Eventually, the Daz swung more and more towards a right-wing, conservative, anti-Republican course, similar to parts of the middle-class circle around the DVP. This intensified after the death of Gustav Stresemann in 1929. At the end of the 1920s, she became the mouthpiece of the Ruhrlade, an elite club of the most important Ruhr industrialists, which had acquired the majority of shares in Daz . In the late phase of the Republic, the paper supported the policy of Chancellor Brüning.

Dictatorship: In 1933 she was briefly threatened with a ban because of an article that had infuriated Hitler. The owners of the Daz offered Karl Silex the post of editor-in-chief, which he held until 1943.[6] In the years that followed, Silex tried to maintain the paper's right-wing conservative stance and thus ensure a minimum of independence from the National Socialists. De facto, however, this meant that even minor deviations from the language regulations of the Ministry of Propaganda entailed drastic sanctions – personnel consequences, and in many cases publication bans lasting several days. Adolf Hitler personally intervened in 1938 because of a report by the London correspondent Carl Erdmann Graf Pückler on preparations for war in London, since it contradicted the official line – emphasizing the Godesberg and Munich conferences and the appeasement policy of British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain.

With the beginning of the Second World War, the pressure on the editors of the Daz grew. However, several editors and freelancers also worked for the newly founded newspaper Das Reich, with which the Ministry of Propaganda wanted to establish a counterweight to English news magazines such as the Observer. In 1943, Silex joined the Navy in protest against the direction of the Ministry of Propaganda, and Otmar Best took over the management of the editorial office until his dismissal in March 1945.[8] As one of the last Berlin newspapers, the Daz was published until April 24. April 1945.