Manuscript SCHWERIN 1879: Self-written poems by Printer Carl SCHULTZE

 

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You are bidding on one extensive handwriting (Schwerin 1879) with self-written poems (some at the end too Low German).

 

"Suffering and pleasure of the young breast. Songs by Carl Schultze. Schwerin 1879."

 

Written by the Schwerin printer Carl Schultze (* 16. April 1842 in Schwerin).

 

Integrated or also pasted in seven printed poems, which were also written by him (as a printer he had the opportunity to produce such prints).

 

Scope: Title page + 223 pages (p. 134 is blank), of which 14 pages are in Low German. Over 200 blank pages follow.

 

Format: 20.5x17x3cm.

 

Weight: 830g.

 

Beautiful half leather strap; the pages with printed borders.

 

The manuscript was started to be written in 1879; However, the poems were mostly written in earlier years (mostly in the 1860s). The exact date is often included, for example "On my 25th. Birthdays on the 16th April 1867. There are also occasional poems from the early 1880s.

 

There is a subheading on page 135 "Miscellaneous and occasional poems, humorous scenes, etc."

 

“Three political poems” (pp. 186-191) are very interesting: "I. Schleswig-Holstein 1864" (written 18. July 1864); "II. Election to the North German Parliament" (written in 1867) and "III. The Apostles of Peace" (written 1. August 1867), with footnote "Social Democratic Assembly in Schwerin on 1. August 1867. Speaker: Hofbaurath Demmler."

 

Often written humorously, for example in a poem about his birth (on p. 3), to be sung to the tune "Prinz Eugen, the noble knight)":

"When the midwife took hold of me,

I was very unpolished right away,

I was snorting wildly with rage.

Surely I would have bitten myself

If the mother hadn't torn it

Me to her mother's breast.

 

Because I don't know anything about love yet,

I only felt the urges,

To create free air for me;

I was held long enough

Where the moon and sun do not rule

In the dark mother's tomb.

 

But like the mother first

They let me eat their human food,

I also sucked in love,

And since then I always have

The women were welcome,

A busty girl.

 

Because I was born first,

Did my mother choose me?

That I should one day serve God;

But I found so many gods

That I, like April weather,

"I didn't know who to serve."

 

(This refers to the god of money, love, Bacchus; with the result: "Yes, I want to exercise the priesthood by drinking, loving, loving...").

 

Topics include: The pleasures of living and loving are often described; several poems are addressed to different lovers.

 

Some titles (many poems also without titles):

-The Merry Zecher (with footnote: Composed as a quartet for male choir by Th. Schürmann - Püsser jug)

-The anglers

-To Caroline

-The prisoner

-My Bimini (inspired by Heinrich Heine's poem of the same name)

-Drawing of the Rose Queen (parlor game)

-Upon receiving a beaded gift from a girl

-Dusty furniture

-Weekly calendar for the wedding gossip. At the wedding celebration of the master painter Mr. B. Grüder with Miss. Aug. Heathen on 2nd April 1880.

-The new ad typesetter welcomes the newspaper moving to another printing company

-To'n birthday. Dorbi a Gratelatschonskort, up the a Sülverschwan, surrounded by flowers, pictured like this

-Vivat high! Bring up my friend Kritschan Bartels your Hochtiedsfier (2. October 1866)

 

Of the printed poems that relate to his profession as a book printer:

-"Prologue to the Typographia Foundation Festival on August 8th February 1866" (3 pages)

-"Irnst Janncken to his fifties anniversary of the Bokpresser jubilee on AM Sandmeyern, on the 25th. April 1867, by seven colleagues, de Sedders." --- Based on the Schwerin court printer AW Sandmeyer; Carl Schultze was also employed by this company?

 

Other printed poems include:
- Obituary for Johannes Lump from Vienna, who died in Schwerin from pulmonary consumption in the 26th century. Years of life on the 10th January 1868

-His friend Gustav Müller on his wedding to Miss Louise Pollet, 19. July 1867, dedicated by C. Schultze

-A new song from Albert and Sophie. A true story that took place in 1874

 

A printed Low German poem from 1877 (with original pen drawing of a wine drinker) refers to the restoration by C. Stumpf.

 

About the author: the book printer Carl Friederich Schultze was born on the 16th. April 1842 in Schwerin as the son of the hired servant Carl Friederich Schultze and Johanna Friederike Dorothea, born Abel was born. In the 1867 census he was recorded as a printer and head of household in Schwerin; he was not married at the time (it is unclear whether he ever married) and lived with his brother Serious Friedrich Ferdinand Schultze. This was done on the 13th. Born in Schwerin in May 1844 and married on May 23rd. April 1870 in Berlin as master plumber Franziska Therese Marie Bader, née. on the 8th March 1846 as the daughter of the master brass foundry Adolph Wilhelm Bader, who died in Berlin.

His sister Wilhelmine Jeanette Friederike Schultze was born on the 15th. Born in Schwerin in October 1840 and married on October 24th. February 1860 in Schwerin the lithographer's assistant Friedrich Wilhelm August Drescher, born on 2. November 1834 in Berlin as the son of the coachman Johann Friedrich Drescher.

Were children together Franziska Marie Johanna Drescher (*9. September 1861 in Schwerin) and Carl Adolph Gustav Drescher (* 3. June 1863 in Schwerin).

She died early, on the 20th. July 1863, a few weeks after the birth of her son Gustav. Her husband then married on the 14th. October 1864 as a widower and lithographer in Schwerin Johanne Emilie Böhlert, born. on the 15th May 1830 as the daughter of the citizen Christoph Wilhelm Böhlert in Barby. In 1873 he became a court lithographer.

 

Condition: Cover rubbed, pages slightly stained; good condition! Please also note the pictures at the end of the item description!

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