You are bidding on oneHandwritten, signed postcard of the Jewish journalist and publisher Felix Stössinger (1889-1954).

Dated 15. August 1933 (written in Marianske Lazne), addressed to the post office Berlin W 62.

Transcription: "My address has changed. It is now: Villa Reinhold (next to the Municipal Theater) Marienbad. Please send the letter there now. Printed matter further poste restante. 15.8.33 Felix Stössinger Nettelbeckstr. 12/13."

In the Berlin address book from 1934 he is listed at this address (Nettelbeckstr. 12/13) (as an antique dealer), in 1933 still at a different address. Also in the Czech lexicon "Kulturní adresář ČSR: biografický slovník žijících kulturních pracovníků a pracovnic" by A Dolensky, Prague 1934, p. 422, this address is noted. A few months later Stössinger emigrated to Prague.

Format: 10.3 x 14.7 cm.

On pretty thin paper.

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Condition: Map slightly browned, with creases. Please also note the pictures!

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About Felix Stössinger (source: wikipedia):

Felix Stössinger (* 25. August 1889 in Prague, Austria-Hungary; † 31 August 1954 in Zurich) was an Austrian journalist and publisher.

Life: Stössinger grew up in Vienna and was initially a music critic there, later he also wrote about literature, theatre, art and religious issues. In Vienna he belonged to the circle of friends around Ernst Weiß, Albert Ehrenstein and Otto Pick, in which he also made the acquaintance of Franz Kafka in September 1913.

Around 1914 he moved from Vienna to Berlin, joined the SPD and switched to political journalism. Like the majority of his party, Stössinger initially supported the First World War. An anecdote from this time that is often circulated is his appearance in the Berlin Café des Westens, when he offered the writers and journalists there on 7 November On May 19, 1915, he broke the news of the sinking of the British RMS Lusitania by a German torpedo, enthusiastically calling the deaths of nearly 1,200 people "the greatest feat in human history". The pacifist writer Leonhard Frank, who was also present, then slapped him wordlessly (and then emigrated head over heels to Switzerland to avoid prosecution).[1][2] From 1916 Stössinger was editor of the Sozialistische Zeiten (Socialist Monthly Magazines), whose editor Joseph Bloch von Stössinger regarded as a political mentor.

After 1917 Stössinger joined the USPD. From 1918 to 1922 he was editor of the Berlin USPD central organ Freedom and publisher of the weekly illustrated freedom supplement The Free World. During the revolutionary winter of 1918/19, Stössinger was head of the press, propaganda and news department of the Executive Council of the Greater Berlin Workers' and Soldiers' Councils (VR).[3] He also published an “independent social-democratic yearbook for politics and proletarian culture” for which the USPD was also responsible, entitled Die Revolution, which, however, only appeared once, in 1920.

Around 1920, Stössinger was a member of the Federation for Proletarian Culture, which had been founded in 1919 by Ludwig Rubiner, Arthur Holitscher, Rudolf Leonhard, Franz Jung and Alfons Goldschmidt and in which communists worked alongside anarchists and syndicalists. Other members of the alliance, which broke up again in 1921, were Hermann Schüller (1893–1948), Max Barthel, the actresses Elsbeth Bruck (1874–1970) and Gertrud Eysoldt, the painters and graphic artists Hans Baluschek, Heinrich Vogeler and Heinrich Zille, and the architect Bruno Taut .

Stössinger ran an antiquarian bookshop from the mid-1920s; Felix Stössinger Verlag and Antiquariat published, among other things, some works by the composer and poet Arno Nadel[4] in 1925/26 and a bibliophilic collection of poems by Nell Walden-Heimann[5] in 1933. In addition, Stössinger supported his friend Bloch as editor of the SM until 1933 and wrote some programmatic texts there, such as a 1925 plea for the annexation of Austria to Germany[6] and 1929 an accusation of "Anglo-Saxon imperialism", which used its "cultural ideology as an instrument of World Domination"[7] use.

Stössinger was also active as a journalist for the Weltbühne and the Tage-Buch. In 1930 he worked for the “culture-critical journal” Clique, which appeared only three times, together with Theodor Lessing, Hans José Rehfisch, Anton Kuh, Erich Knauf, Erich Ohser and Erich Mühsam. In the same year he wrote for the Jewish Review about "anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union".[9] In 1931 he campaigned for "active anti-Bolshevism" in the SPD discussion organ Das Freie Wort.

After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Joseph Bloch moved to Prague, and Stössinger followed him in early 1934. Until Bloch's death on 14. On December 1, 1936, they worked together on a text understood as Bloch's political legacy, which Stössinger then completed together with Bloch's widow Hélène and published in France in 1938/39 (Revolution der Weltpolitik, 8 volumes).

After the occupation of Prague by the German Wehrmacht on 15. On March 1, 1939, Stössinger's wife Charlotte and her son from his first marriage, who later became a graphic artist and painter, Hans Michael Freisager (1924–2014), fled to Nice. Stössinger followed them a little later.[11] In September 1942 the family fled from France to Switzerland. Stössinger and his wife were interned there from October 1942 to August 1943 in the Oberhelfenschwil sick camp. They then lived in Zurich, where Stössinger worked as a translator and editor, mainly writing for the Neue Schweizer Rundschau. He was also the Swiss correspondent for the New York weekly Aufbau. In 1950 he edited a critically acclaimed Heine selection; On the other hand, in 1953 he was heavily criticized for his work as editor of Volume 4 of Hermann Broch's Collected Works.[12] Stössinger's last manuscript, Zwischen Tell und Geßler, is owned by the family; the diary from the Swiss detention camp contained therein was published in 2011.

writings

with Karl Holtz: The Noske system. A political and satirical reckoning. Freedom, Berlin 1920.[14]

Simon Erlanger, Peter-Jakob Kelting (eds.): Interned in Swiss refugee camps. Diary of the Jewish author Felix Stössinger 1942/43. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-85616-529-1.

as editor

Leo Tolstoy: A Selection for the Mature Youth. Verlag der Neue Gesellschaft, Berlin 1922. (= youth books of the new society. Part 1.)

Panait Istrati: Three Books on Soviet Russia. Piper, Munich 1930. (Volume 1: On the wrong track. 16 months in Russia. Volume 2: It doesn't work that way! Today's Soviets. Volume 3: Russia Naked.)

Joseph Bloch: Revolution in world politics. Legacy. 8 volumes. Prague, fishermen near Karlsbad, Paris 1938.

Heinrich Heine: My most valuable legacy. religion, life, poetry. Manesse, Zurich 1950. (= Manesse Library of World Literature)

with Eva Rechel-Mertens: Honoré de Balzac: Master Novels. Manesse, Zurich 1953. (= Manesse Library of World Literature)

Hermann Broch: The tempter. Rhine, Zurich 1953. (= collected works, vol. 4)

as translator

Louis Edward Bisch: Neurotic - and yet happy. Pan, Zurich 1951.

Hilaire Belloc: Marie Antoinette. Diana, Baden-Baden, Stuttgart 1952. (translated with Edwin Maria Landau)

Émile Zola: The Pack. Manesse, Zurich 1954. (= Manesse Library of World Literature)