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You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter the writer and playwright Walter Harlan (1867-1931)

He was the father of the musician and musical instrument maker Peter Harlan (1898-1966) and the actor and director Veit Harlan (1899-1964).

addressed to the writer and literary historian Franz Ferdinand Heitmuller (1864-1919).

Walter Harlan and Franz Ferdinand Heitmüller were friends and socialized with Otto Erich Hartleben and Rudolf Steiner. This is what it says in the work "Rudolf Steiner" by Christoph Lindenberg, Rowohl Ebook Monograph, p. 1f. of the chapter "Transition. In the whirl of Berlin": "Every Saturday, Hartleben's circle of friends met at the 'criminal table' in the 'Zur Künstlerklause' restaurant, and these 'meetings' with Paul Scheerbarth, Otto Julius Bierbaum, Franz Ferdinand Heitmüller and Walter Harlan often only ended at dawn. This life was exhausting for the delicate Steiner, who published the 'Magazine' week after week without any help and also had to fill the columns with his own contributions."

Dated19. December 1915

No location (certainly Berlin, his word location).

Transcription:

"Dear Heitmüller!

Thank you for your kind letter! As an author myself, I don't want to say a word about 'In Kanaan', it always becomes an insignificant stupidity.

You seem to be reproaching me, in your delicate Hamburg tonality, for not giving you a free copy and free ticket for my 'Nürnbergisch Egg'. I only had about 10 or 12 tickets that I used up for the poor.

Best regards, also from my wife! And why don't you come to Monday at 9 a.m. today! Bring a small Christmas gift to the engagement! If you don't have the money or don't want to, tell me my letter didn't arrive until Tuesday morning. Which is unfortunately likely. Why did you get rid of your telephone!

Yours, Walter Harlan."

The mentioned works by Walter Harlan are:

-The Nuremberg Egg. Tragedy in four acts. Fleischel, Berlin 1913

-In Canaan. A happy mystery in four acts. Fleischel, Berlin 1915

Scope: 1 ½ of 4 pages written (21.8 x 14 cm).

Without envelope.

Condition: Cover folded several times (with small tears in the fold). Paper slightly browned. BPlease note also the pictures!

Internal note: KRSt 210314

About Walter Harlan (source: wikipedia):

Walter Harlan (b. December 1867 in Dresden; † 14 April 1931 in Berlin) was a German writer and playwright. Originally a lawyer (Dr. iur.), he worked at the Lessing Theater in Berlin, among other places.

Life: Walter Harlan is the son of the banker and farmer Otto Harlan and Bertha Elisa Harlan (b. Bienert, daughter of the industrial magnate Gottlieb Traugott Bienert); one of his brothers was the aircraft engineer Wolfgang Harlan. Walter Harlan was with Adele b. Boothby married and is considered the founder of the Harlan family of artists; Of the seven children, the musician Peter Harlan and the director Veit Harlan deserve special mention.

His story The Child Maid was filmed in 1936 as Maria, the maid, his tragedy The Nuremberg Egg in 1939 in a greatly modified form under the title The Immortal Heart. Veit Harlan directed both films.

During a meeting of the Association of German Playwrights and Playwrights, in which he had been a member for many years, Walter Harlan suffered on 14. April 1931, at the age of 63, suffered a heart attack from which he succumbed on the spot. The burial took place on the 18th. April 1931 at the Heerstrasse cemetery in what is now Berlin-Westend. The tomb has not survived.

factories

In April. Comedy from the forties. Wild, Leipzig 1895

New tracts. Wild, Leipzig 1895

The poet exchange. Novel. F Fontane & Company, Berlin 1899

School of comedy (psychology of the spectator / play on the stage). Bloch, Berlin 2. erg. A. 1903

The sin of children. A schoolmaster's life, death, and journey into the all-heart. Fleischel, Berlin 1908

The Latin Donkey. Comedy in five acts. Bloch, Berlin 1910

Catrein's odyssey. Novel from Old Flanders. Fleischel, Berlin 1912

family scenes. Fourteen stories of women and children, of servants and of the world soul. Fleischel, Berlin 1912

The Nuremberg Egg. Tragedy in four acts. Fleischel, Berlin 1913

The Coat Child. Comedy in five acts. Bloch, Berlin n.d.

Annual market in Pulsnitz. A Dionysian farce in three acts. Bloch, Berlin n.d.

In Canaan. A happy mystery in four acts. Fleischel, Berlin 1915

Fifth Decade Elite. Self-published, Berlin 1917

He snores. A blissful joke. DVA, Stuttgart 1922

The Archschoolmaster. Roman up to the sky. German Book Community, Berlin 1924; except for the title, the version of The Sin Against Children (1908) differs only slightly.

Give us children and a hundred grandchildren! A game from the days of the patriarchs, Berlin 1928

radio plays (selection)

1926: Year market in Pulsnitz – Director: Not specified (broadcast play (radio play adaptation) – Funk-Stunde Berlin)

1926: Annual market in Pulsnitz. A Dionysian farce in three acts – Director: Not specified (broadcast play (radio play adaptation) – ORAG)

1926: Annual market in Pulsnitz. A Dionysian farce in three acts – Director: Karl Köstlin (broadcast (radio play adaptation) – Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG))

1928: on the 60th Birthday of the poet: annual market in Pulsnitz. Comedy in three acts – director: Ernst Pündter (broadcast play (radio play adaptation) – NORAG)

1978: Sold out at the time: The Nuremberg Egg – Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (radio play – BR)