You are bidding on two handwritten, signed postcards (Motive: Schwerin) of Pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976), addressed to his wife Lisbeth, née. Radok, in Königsberg (East Prussia).

Both with Postmark Berlin, 15. July 1928 (apparently also sent together).

He reports on his stay in Berlin (he was probably in Schwerin beforehand).

Motives:

1. Schwerin iM, Am Zippendorfer Strand

2. Schwerin imM, view from the castle courtyard.

Both maps from the series "Schwerin: the city of lakes and forests", ed. from the Schwerin Tourist Office.

Format:13.9 x 9.1 cm.

Condition: Second card folded. Paper browned and stained, with corner damage. bPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 7

About Erwin Kroll (Source: wikipedia):

Erwin Kroll (*3. February 1886 in German Eylau; † 7. March 1976 in Berlin) was a German pianist, composer, writer and music critic. Like his friend Otto Besch, Kroll was an East Prussian composer.

Life: Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the Royal Hufengymnasium with Otto Besch. He studied philology and music at Albertus University. He received his doctorate from ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg. phil. and went into school service.

In 1919 he turned entirely to music and continued his studies in Munich, which he had begun with Otto Fiebach and Paul Scheinpflug. There he found an important teacher, especially in Hans Pfitzner, to whom he later dedicated a highly acclaimed book. In addition to his studies, Kroll was an accompanist at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans Pfitzner Association for German Music, which Thomas Mann had called for to be founded.

In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 onwards it was its features editor. Since 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and music writer. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk in Berlin until 1953.

With his book, Kroll has created a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.[3]

See also: Music in Königsberg

factories

East Prussian homeland - orchestral work

Violin Sonata in B major

Sonatina in F major

East Prussian dances

The Adebar - fantasy about East Prussian folk tunes for large orchestra

Vocal works and song arrangements

Songs for solo voices and choir songs

Fonts

Music city Koenigsberg

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1923.

Hans Pfitzner. Three Masks Verlag, Munich 1924 .

The theater. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Dortmund Municipal Theater. The theater, Berlin 1930.

Carl Maria Weber. Athenaion, Potsdam 1934 .

Music city Königsberg. Atlantis, Freiburg i. Br. 1966.

Honors

Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon (27. January 1956)

Cultural Prize of the East Prussian State Team (1960)

Life: Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the Royal Hufengymnasium with Otto Besch. He studied philology and music at Albertus University. He received his doctorate from ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg. phil. and went into school service. In 1919 he turned entirely to music and continued his studies in Munich, which he had begun with Otto Fiebach and Paul Scheinpflug. There he found an important teacher, especially in Hans Pfitzner, to whom he later dedicated a highly acclaimed book. In addition to his studies, Kroll was an accompanist at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans Pfitzner Association for German Music, which Thomas Mann had called for to be founded. In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became music critic for the Har