You are bidding on one typed, signed letter and a Handwritten, signed postcard the dancer and dance teacher Friedel Romanowski (1908-2004).

Autographs are by Friedel Romanowski very rare!

Among other things, very derogatory about a play by the young Rainer Werner Fassbinder: "It's just very mean smut --- and the actors are supposed to be nude."

addressed to the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.

1.) Typewritten letter with a handwritten addition, dated (according to postmark) Bremen, 13. January 1970.

Scope:4 written A5 pages.

With interesting text: about shared memories, the conductor Heinz Tietjen (1881-1967), with whom she was a very good friend, and the ballet mistress Lizzi Maudrik (1898-1955), who integrated against her.

Then about a play by Rainer Werner Faßbinder at the Landestheater Darmstadt: "Christian just had a fight in Darmstadt with his director, Pr. Hering, an educated, sensitive man, and yet he howls, it seems with the wolves. He also has to go all the way modern do, and brings out a really stupid play by the 23-year-old (!) author cooper. In any case, after reading the play, Christian asked the artistic director to not use, because he could not and would not play. It's all about very mean filth --- the actors are also supposed to appear naked. [...] a 2nd Actor Kayssler (grandson of the late Friedrich K.) refused. The two 'refusers' contacted their chairman, who told them not to go to the rehearsals [...]."

Signed "Your Friedel Romanowski."

About the people mentioned:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (* 31. May 1945 in Bad Woerishofen; † 10 June 1982 in Munich) was a German director, actor, screenwriter, film producer, film editor, composer and playwright. Fassbinder's fast way of working made him extremely productive in his relatively short life: he directed over 40 feature films, two television series and three short films. Fassbinder has also written 24 plays and produced four radio plays. Rainer Werner Fassbinder is regarded as one of the most important representatives of New German Film of the 1970s and early 1980s.

The actor Martin Kayssler (* 1939) was a son of the actor Christian Kassler (1898-1944)and grandson of the actor Friedrich Kayssler (1874-1945)

Gerhard F. Hering (* 28. October 1908 in Rogasen near Posen; † 12 April 1996 in Darmstadt) was a German writer, editor, director and theater manager.

2.) Handwritten postcard in an envelope; dated (according to postmark) Bremen, 19. December 1972.

Motive:Russian icon, circa 1700, called "Soothe My Sorrows."

Greetings for Christmas and the New Year 1973.

Signed"Your Friedel Romanowski."

Format:14.8x10.5 cm.

The original envelope is enclosed in each case; personally addressed (address only signed on the photos).

Condition: content in good condition; covers stained and damaged. BPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-15 autograph autograph

About Friedel Romanowski (Source: German Dance Archive) and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

Friedel Romanowski (1908-2004), dancer, dance teacher.

Biographical overview: Friedel Romanowski began her training with Lise Abt in Königsberg (East Pr.) in 1926, then also studied with Palucca as well as with Margarethe Wallmann and Tatjana Gsovsky and was engaged at the Berlin State Opera from 1931-1944, where she played various leading roles in the Lizzie -Maudrik Rehearsals created. She also appeared frequently in solo dance evenings. Her best-known dances included the trilogy of Shakespeare's figures (M.: GF Handel and L. van Beethoven), the Archangel cycle (M.: A. Corelli, J. Pachelbel and G. Galuppi), fairy tale suite and Joan of Arc ( both men: Hans Udall). From 1956 she ran a ballet school in Bremen.

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 a tone poet from East Prussia.

Life:Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the royal hoof high school with Otto Besch. At the Albertus University he studied philology and music. With a doctoral thesis on ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg, for a Dr. phil. after his doctorate, he went into teaching. In 1919 he devoted himself 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 a répétiteur at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans-Pfitzner-Verein für Deutsche Tonkunst, which Thomas Mann had called for to found. In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became a music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 its features editor.From 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and writer on music. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation in Berlin until 1953. With his book, Kroll has set a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.

factories

East Prussian homeland - orchestral work

Violin Sonata in B flat major

Sonatina in F major

East Prussian Dances

Der Adebar - Fantasy on East Prussian folk tunes for large orchestra

Vocal works and song arrangements

Songs for solo voices and choral songs

writings

Music city Koenigsberg

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman. Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig 1923.

Hans Pfitzner. Three masks publishing house, Munich 1924.

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

Carl Maria Weber. Athenaion, Potsdam 1934.

Music city Koenigsberg. Atlantis, Freiburg i. brother 1966.

honors

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit on Ribbon (27. January 1956)

Culture Prize of the East Prussian Association (1960)