You are bidding on one typed, signed Schlaraffia letter of the actor Ludwig Schmitz (1884-1954).

At the beginning of Cockaigne greeting "RGuHz!" (=Knightly salute and handshake beforehand!).

The recipient is referred to as "Ritter Stehauf" (hence his "Order name").

Also the Signature of Ludwig Schmitz is hisCockaigne name ("Wuze" / "Luze"?).

Dated Münster, Hammer Strasse 196, 1. October 1953.

Ludwig Schmitz is listed at this address in the Münster address book (Jg. 1953, p. 227) as a "film actor".

Schmitz judges a comedy by the recipient, praises it, but now, after the war, is the wrong time for it, since it is set in the milieu of Prussian soldiers.

He quotes the lyrics of a hit song that appears in it: "Love! You are in the human gear // The very finest, smallest thing and have so much power. // You can be so delicate // Be so distinctive despite all the treachery // You wrap everyone up // And don't ask whether they are young or old." -- This text is not verifiable for me.

Schmitz mentions a song that the recipient "composed for our beloved Colonia Agrippina [i.e. the city of Cologne] and which is always happily sung there."

Stationery watermarked "HAMMER-POST".

Scope: 2 A4 pages.

Condition: Slightly browned and creased; into the. Good. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: 2a/7

About Schmitz and the Schlaraffia (source: wikipedia):

Ludwig Schmitz (* 28. January 1884 in Cologne; † 29 June 1954 in Hanover) was a German actor.

Life: Ludwig Joseph Schmitz, son of the master cap maker Joseph Schmitz and his wife Louise b. Klubschewsky worked in his father's business and took acting lessons on the side. Around the turn of the century he got his first engagement at the Stadttheater Nordhausen, 1902/03 he was in Hofgeismar, then in Delitzsch, Wismar and Düren.

He spent a long time at the court and national theater in Mannheim, from 1927 to 1929 he played at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus under Walter Bruno Iltz, from 1930 to 1933 at the Stadttheater Münster, then at the Schauspielhaus Munich. As a "little fat man", Ludwig Schmitz was soon set on comic roles and was considered a typical representative of Cologne humor. From 1937 Schmitz worked mainly on Berlin stages.

Schmitz was able to develop his comedic talent particularly in film. He received several small roles in which he presented himself as an indestructible cheerful Rhenish nature. From September 1939 to September 1940, together with the Düsseldorf actor Jupp Hussels, he designed the propaganda newsreels Tran and Helle, in which he embodied the slow-witted Tran.

Although since 1 March 1934 member of the SS and since 1. May 1937 member of the NSDAP, Schmitz was banned from the German film in 1941 "because of unworthy behavior". The popular comedian was only seen again in German cinemas in the 1950s, until he died after a heart attack. He was buried in the Lauheide forest cemetery near Telgte.

filmography

1934: It bangs (short film with Karl Valentin)

1934: About human rights

1934: Peer Gynt

1935: The Unsuspecting Angel

1936: The big and the small world

1937: Vacation on word of honor

1938: The muzzle

1938: The girl with the good reputation

1938: Great Alarm

1938: Black ride into happiness

1938: The rooster scandal

1938: One night in May

1938: The Difficult Child

1938: Thirteen men and one gun

1939: Tailor Wibbel

1939–1940: Tran and Helle (47 shorts)

1939: Rhenish bridal journey

1939: Hooray! I'm dad!

1939: Cornflower Blue

1940: World record in infidelity

1940: The Dark Spot

1940: The Last Round

1941: Family connection

1941: Comedians

1944: Walk of sacrifice

1950: Thirteen under one hat

1951: Green is the heath

1952: Three days of fear

1952: Pension Schöller

1952: The Land of Smiles

1952: Mikosch moves in

1952: The Merry Vineyard

1952: You are the rose of Wörthersee

1952: At the fountain in front of the gate

1952: A thousand red roses bloom

1953: We'll talk about love later

1953: Bang and Fall as detectives

1953: Chaste Joseph

1953: When the village music plays on Sunday evening

1954: The Loyal Hussar

1954: Aennchen von Tharau

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