You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed letter card ofwriters and journalists Otto Rombach (1904-1984).

Undated; the sender address Berlin, Pariser Str. 17a, refers to his time in Berlin as an editor, journalist and freelance writer (1929-1945). At this address he is in the Berlin address books of the years 1935-1943 (more in the 2. WK not published) listed.

addressed to the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976), head of the arts section of the Königsberger Hartungsche Zeitung until it had to be dissolved at the end of 1933; In 1934 he moved to Berlin. -- From his estate.

Transcription: "Dear, dear Dr. Kroll! Your heartfelt words did me a lot of good during these sad days, and I thank you very much, also on behalf of my family. We just have to keep going and keep going, no matter how difficult it is sometimes. Kind regards and thanks again! Your Otto Rombach."

Scope: Card written on 1 side (9.3 x 15 cm); without envelope.

Note:In one of my photos there is a small piece of plastic that has been punched out unintentionally on the card; here is of course no loss of text and the like. before.

Condition: card punched at the bottom; strong paper slightly browned.BPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-3 autograph autograph

About Otto Rombach and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

Otto August Rombach (* 22. July 1904 in Böckingen, today in Heilbronn; † 19 May 1984 in Bietigheim-Bissingen) was a German writer and journalist.

Liven:Rombach was born in Böckingen, but moved to Bietigheim with his parents as an infant in 1905. He comes from a family of artists; August Rombach's father was a painter, brother Richard became a cameraman at the UFA in Berlin and his brother Hermann Rombach became a painter and draftsman.

Otto Rombach was initially a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung and later in Berlin. He became famous as a writer from 1928 with poems, stage plays, novellas, radio plays and historical novels such as The Young Mr. Alexius (1940), but above all with Adrian the Tulip Thief (1935), filmed in 1966 as the first German television series in color and released on 25 September 1966. Premiered January 2009 in the Altonaer Theater, Hamburg, as a play (stage adaptation by Martin Chlupka).

He wrote short stories, novels, plays, poems and travelogues.

The Otto Rombach scholarship for talented young musicians, painters and writers, which the city of Heilbronn awards annually from a Rombach foundation, is named after him.

Awards: In 1941 Rombach was awarded the Swabian Poet Prize, a Nazi literature prize established in 1935 by the Minister President of Württemberg and Minister of Culture Christian Mergenthaler. In 1964 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Medal of Honor of the City of Heilbronn and became an honorary citizen of the city of Bietigheim. From 1949 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. In 1965 he became an honorary member of the Académie Berrichonne in Bourges, France. The Baden-Württemberg state government honored him with the title of professor in 1969. In 1981 he received the State Medal of Merit, and in 1984 the town library of Bietigheim-Bissingen was renamed the Otto Rombach Library. In Furtwangen in the Black Forest there is an Otto-Rombach-Weg, in Heilbronn-Böckingen, his birthplace, there is the Rombachstraße.

Works (selection)

gazette poetry. Poems of a Young Journalist (poetry, 1928)

Adrian, the tulip thief. A picaresque novel (1936)

The Steadfast Geometer. A Novel of the Young Danube (1938, reissued 1952 as Cornelia and the Steadfast Geometer)

Young Herr Alexius (historical novel about a merchant from the Ravensburger Handelsgesellschaft, 1940)

Gordian and the Riches of Life (novel, 1952)

The Good King René (Historical Novel, 1964)

Italian Travels (travelogue, 1967)

Forward, backward, my lane. Stories From My Life (autobiography, 1974)

happy country. On Lake Constance and Neckar, between Ries and Rhine (travel report, 1976)

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)