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You are bidding on oneHandwritten, signed postcard of the composer Mark Lothar (1902-1985).

With a very rare motif: children's drawing “From Plant Science” by Helmut Stangl, 6th grade student. Class one Rudolf Steiner School. (Publisher: Rudolf Steiner School, Munich). -- The motive cannot be verified for me!

DatedMunich-Solln, 4. January 1964.

Aimed at the Pianists, composers, writers and music critics Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Berlin.

Transcription: "Dear, respected Erwin Kroll! Warmest wishes to you and your dear wife for the new year that has begun. Stay healthy and be a fierce, fiery, youthful fighter for everything real and true. And keep your sympathy for me. - Last year was difficult. The loss of dear friends and personalities (30 years of collaboration with Gründgens!) affected me very much. Nevertheless: let's hope for 1964. In the same old spirit of friendship from my wife, yours, Mark Lothar. Kind regards from our dear friend Maria Siegel."

Note:The important actor, director and artistic director Gustaf Gründgens (1899-1963) died on the 7th October 1963 in Manila during a trip around the world.--

Maria Siegel, Daughter of the architect Hermann Stiller (1850-1931), was the widow of the composer Rudolf Siegel (1878-1948) and mother of the composer, songwriter, music publisher, writer and singer Ralph Maria Siegel (1911-1972) and grandmother of the musician, composer and music producer Ralph Siegel (*1945).

Format: 10.5 x 14.8 cm.

Condition:card bent and more heavily stained; with a big kink. bplease note the pictures too!

Internal note: Kroll 21-12-19 Autograph Autograph

OverMark Lothar and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

Mark Lothar (actually Lothar Hundertmark; * 23. May 1902 in Berlin; † 6. April 1985 in Munich) was a German composer.

Life: He studied in Berlin with Franz Schreker, with Walther Carl Meiszner (piano, 1921–1926) and in Munich with Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. Mark Lothar became known early on as an accompanist for famous singers, including Erna Berger and Corry Nera, who became Lothar's wife in 1934, and later Hermann Prey. In 1933, Lothar, who was a member of the ethnically minded, anti-Semitic Fighting League for German Culture, was appointed by Max Reinhardt as a music expert at the German Theater. In 1934, Gustaf Gründgens appointed him to the Prussian State Theater in Berlin, where he worked as musical director until 1944. During the Nazi era, he received various composition commissions from the Reich Office for Music Arrangements, which was subordinate to Goebbels. In August 1944, Lothar was included by Adolf Hitler in the God-Given list of what he considered to be the most important composers, which saved him from military service, including on the home front.

From 1945 Mark Lothar worked at the Bavarian State Theater and from 1955 as a freelance composer in Munich.

With “Tyll” he achieved his first major opera success in 1928. This humorous play opera with lyrical and cheerful parts also thrilled audiences and critics when it was revived at the Oberhausen Theater in 1984. “Tyll” was joined by operas such as “Münchhausen” (premiere: Semperoper Dresden 1933), “Schneider Wibbel” (1938), “Rappelkopf” (premiere: Munich 1958) and “Momo and the Time Thieves” (1978). His music for the stage work “Hans Sonnenstösser's Hell Journey” dates from the 1930s.

Lothar also made a name for himself as a composer of stage music, film music (for example for “Friedemann Bach”, “Tender Secret” and “Faust” by Gustaf Gründgens) and songs based on texts by Hermann Löns, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern and others. His song cycle “Music of the Lonely” op. 69 based on poems by Hermann Hesse, which Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau also interpreted.

His grave is in the Solln cemetery in Munich.

Filmography (selection)

1921: Devil and Circe

1939: The step away from the path

1941: Friedemann Bach

1944: Nora

1947: Between yesterday and tomorrow

1949: Tragedy of a Passion

1949: You are not alone

1949: Playful life

1949: Night Watch

1950: Foehn

1951: Dr. Holl

1952: The last recipe

1952: The Great Temptation

1953: Martin Luther

1953: Royal Highness

1954: Sauerbruch – That was my life

1955: Beloved Enemy

1956: Regina

1956: Tender Secret

1956: The Girl Marion

1956: Devil in Silk

1957: Made in Germany – A life for Zeiss

1957: The last will be first

1957: ...and lead us not into temptation

1958: Resurrection

1960: Faust

Radio play music

1948: Wolfgang Borchert: Outside the Door - Director: Walter Ohm (Radio Munich)

1951: Molière: The Imaginary Invalid - Director: Walter Ohm (BR)

1952: Nikolai Gogol: The Auditor – Director: Walter Ohm (BR)

1953: Carl Zuckmayer: Ulla Winblad or Music and Life of Carl Michael Bellmann - Director: Walter Ohm (BR/ rb / SWF)

Erwin Kroll (*3. February 1886 in German Eylau; † 7. March 1976 in 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. He studied philology and music at Albertus University. He received his doctorate from ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg. phil. and went into school service.

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, to whom he later dedicated a highly acclaimed book. 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.[3]