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Written in Liseleje (on Sjælland, Denmark), postmarked Frederiksværk, 24. July 1907.

A M. Popea (?) turns to the Plothow publishing house in Berlin and inquires about the foreign address of the German journalist and writer Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll (1877-1951).

"Gotta get him in urgent Write a family matter and there a letter and Telegram remained unanswered, I assume that he is going away. "

What is meant is the Pantheon-Verlag Bruno CL Plothow, in which Gomoll's work "Dreams and Journeys" appeared in 1906.

The recipient has noted Gomoll's address on the address page.

Format: 8.8x14cm.

On pretty thin paper.

Condition: Map slightly browned, with corner creases. Please BEAalso look at the pictures!

Internal note: FM 201025 in folder white Bockum

About Liselije and WC Gomoll (source: wikipedia):

Liselejeis a Danish town with 2499 inhabitants (as of 1. January 2020 [1]) on Sjælland (German: Zealand). The village is in the parish (Danish: Sogn) Melby (Melby Sogn), which belonged to Harde Strø Herred in what was then Frederiksborg Amt until 1970. With the dissolution of the Harden structure, the parish was included in the Frederiksværk Municipality. January 2007 with other municipalities in the newly founded Halsnæs Municipality, which belongs to the Hovedstaden region.

Liseleje is about seven kilometers north of Frederiksværk and about nine kilometers northeast of Hundested.

The asteroid (9272) Liseleje was named after the village in 2009.

Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll (* 14. November 1877 in Berlin; † 20. February 1951) was a German journalist and writer.

Life: Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll was born in Berlin in 1877. He studied German, literature and art history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, the University of Zurich and the University of Geneva. During his studies, Gomoll traveled abroad to Greece, Denmark and southern Scandinavia and worked as a freelance journalist from 1896 to 1899 in Switzerland, France and Italy. In 1900 Gomoll began a traineeship in the editorial office of the newspaper "Berliner Latest Nachrichten", which later became part of the newspaper "Die Post". In 1903 he published his first volume of poetry. In 1910 Gomoll became a lecturer in literary and art history at the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus in Berlin.

After the beginning of the First World War, Gomoll was appointed war correspondent and placed under the intelligence department of the General Staff of the Field Army. Until the end of the war, Gomoll was in various theaters of war and worked as a war correspondent for the Great Headquarters for the Schlesische Zeitung, the Kölnische Zeitung, the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and the Leipziger Neuesten Nachrichten, among others.

After the war, Gomoll settled in Kleinmachnow and became editor of the Kreuzzeitung. Gomoll became a member of the Berlin Press Association. In 1929 he became head of the press department of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft.

Even before the National Socialists came to power, Gomoll became a member of the NSDAP.

In 1932 Gomoll participated in an anthology edited by Ludwig Kunz in honor of Wilhelm Lehmann on his 50th birthday. Date of birth.

During the Nazi era, Gomoll became a member of the advisory board of the Reich Association of German Writers, which was founded in 1933. He was also head of the press department at the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.

Literary creation

Gomoll appeared mainly as a poet. His work as a writer is mentioned in the overview of poets by Franz Brümmer and the literary history of Adolf Bartels. He wrote the Lübeck novel “Hogesünn” and the novellas “Dance of Death”. The composer Hans Koessler set Gomoll's poem Hymne to Beauty to music.