You are bidding on one typewritten, signed postcard des Epic writers, poets, novelists and essayists Siegfried von der Trenck (1882-1951).
Dated Berlin, the 19th February 1947.
Aimed at the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.
"I have the idea that the artistic and human level equality would perhaps create a drive."
Signed with pencil abbreviation.
12-pfennig postal stationery.
Condition: card folded in half; punched twice on the side (without loss of text). Browned paper. bPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-7 Autograph Autograph
About Siegfried von der Trenck and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):
Siegfried Theodor Julius Gustav von der Trenck (Sigfried von der Trenck for short; * 2. December 1882 in Königsberg (Prussia); † 12. December 1951 in Berlin) was a German epic poet, poet, novelist and essayist.
Life: Growing up in his hometown, he attended college Fridericianum and also completed his Abitur there. He then studied law at various universities in Königsberg, Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau. After his legal clerkship in Berlin, he initially worked as a lawyer at the district court, and later as a patent attorney and notary in Berlin.
Siegfried von der Trenck was a member of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association during the Third Reich.
factories
“Cathedral Concert”
“fairy dance”
“human bride”
“The Eternal Song. Dante’s Divina Commedia, reborn through contemplation and inspiration” (1921)
“The Book of Life” (trilogy; 1925–28)
“candlestick around the sun"
“Flame over the world"
“Stars in the blood"
“Revelation of Eros” (1930)
“Don Juan - Ahasuerus. A Passion of the Earth” (1930)
“Heracles - Christ” (1930)
““The Bull and the Crown” (1933)
“People and Leaders” (1934)
“Rebirth” (1937)
“Sword from the Mouth of God” (1940)
Erwin Kroll (*3. February 1886 in Deutsch Eylau, East Prussia; † 7. March 1976 in West 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. At the Albertus UniversityHe studied philology and music. With a doctoral thesis on ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg, he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate, he went into teaching. 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. He later dedicated a highly acclaimed book to him. 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.
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
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
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit on ribbon (27. January 1956)
Cultural Prize of the East Prussian State Team (1960)