You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed postcard ofWriter, painter, speaker and poet of literary expressionism Fritz von Unruh (1885-1970).
DatedBerlin, 27. October 1927.
Aimed at Ms. Margret Mohrhenn in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Holsteinische Straße 39. In the Berlin address book, the student councilor Dr. Alfred Moorhenn recorded.
This is Margarete Mohrhenn, née. Reichert (born on the 9th May 1892 in Berlin).
Margaret Mohrhenn published the essay "The message of Fritz von Unruh" in the magazine "The Horen. Monthly magazines for art and poetry", ed. by Hanns Martin Elster and Wilhelm von Scholz, year 5 (1928/29), pp. 77-83.
Her husband Alfred Mohrhenn (née on 26. January 1894 in Ronsdorf, Lennep district), which she died on January 18th. Married in Berlin in December 1920, died on December 28th. November 1955 in Berlin-Lankwitz as senior teacher and doctor of philosophy. His work was published posthumously in 1956.Living poetry. Considerations on literature."
Return address: F. v. Balance wheel, 4 under d. Linden.
Transcription: "Thank you very much for your lines. Please will you be so kind to me Monday call in the morning –I have too much work to do until then. I'm looking forward to getting to know you - and would love to come to your house. Until then, with kind regards, your very devoted F. Unruh."
Format: 10.5 x 14.8 cm.
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Portrait of Fritz von Unruh (magazine clipping measuring 14.7 x 10.8 cm), mounted on 19.5 x 12.8 cm backing paper).
Condition: Card browned and somewhat stained, with small corner creases and slight edge wear. The backing paper of the portrait is more browned, with a corner tear. Please note aalso the pictures!
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About Fritz von Unruh (source: wikipedia):
Fritz von Unruh (*10. May 1885 in Koblenz; † 28. November 1970 in Diez an der Lahn) was a German writer, painter, speaker and poet of literary expressionism.
Life: Von Unruh comes from old Prussian nobility. He was the second of nine children of the Prussian general Karl von Unruh (1843–1912) and Mathilde née. Klehe (1858–1943). Friedrich Franz von Unruh and Kurt von Unruh were his younger brothers. At the Prussian Cadet Institute in Plön, Fritz von Unruh was educated with two of the emperor's sons, Oskar and August Wilhelm. The first literary works were written while he was still at school. After taking up service as an officer in the Imperial Guard Regiment in Berlin, he wrote his second play Officers, which was performed with great success by Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in 1911. His regimental commander had previously forced him to resign from the officer profession. The performance of the next play about Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia was even banned by the Emperor in 1913. From 1924 to 1932 - the year of his first emigration - Fritz von Unruh lived in the historic Rententurm on the banks of the Main in Frankfurt, where he officially had the right to live for life.
War experiences: Von Unruh went to the First World War as a volunteer. Here he gained frontline experience as a battalion commander and company commander. Commissioned to do this, von Unruh initially wrote propaganda literature for the highest army command. However, the depictions were too realistic so they were not published. However, the dramatic poem Before the Decision (1915) and the prose story Sacrifice (1916, published in 1919) grew out of the horror of war. The fight against war and violence became the distinctive basis of his artistic work.
Von Unruh was seriously wounded in 1916 and his attitude changed. “What I understood about the meaning of genius in my harsh upbringing, in strict service in the guard, in the blood-soaked field of war - I will say it and condense it. I acquired this right to confess and shape things on the Marne and before Verdun.” (Letter to Thomas Mann dated 31. July 1935)
He became a resolute pacifist and republican-minded opponent of the military and was henceforth considered a polluter in conservative and German nationalist circles.
Weimar period: In 1919 he became friends with Alma Mahler-Werfel and the expressionist writer Franz Werfel. He was a respected writer in the Weimar Republic. Max Reinhardt staged his stage plays, which were played on numerous stages. The founding of the Republican Party in 1924 was not successful. In 1931, von Unruh joined the Iron Front, a coalition against the Harzburg Front of the National Socialist and German ethnic forces. In 1932 he warned of a coming war of annihilation: "Soon the sheep will be grazing on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin."[1] This renewed the hatred of right-wing circles and led to von Unruh's plays being sold in Frankfurt, among other places.
Persecution and emigration: Von Unruh left Frankfurt a. M. in 1932 because he no longer felt safe in Germany after the turmoil surrounding the comedy Zero and a break-in at his apartment in Frankfurt's Rententurm. Although he was still alive on the 19th after the National Socialist “seizure of power”. After signing a declaration of loyalty from the Prussian Academy of Arts in March 1933, his works fell victim to the book burnings and he was killed on March 7th. Gottfried Benn expelled him from the academy in May 1933. Von Unruh initially lived in Italy and from 1935 stayed in southern France. In 1939 he fled via Spain to the USA, where he lived temporarily in New York City. In 1940 he married the actress Friederike Ergas, née Schaffer (1889–1971).
Post-war period: As a result of a request made by Walter Kolb, he returned to Germany for the first time in 1948 and held a ceremony on August 18th. His big speech to the Germans in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt in May.[4] His literary works were now not very successful. The visit between 1952 and 1955 alienated von Unruh from his homeland. Von Unruh lamented the restoration in Germany and felt persecuted. He took the rearmament in 1954 as an opportunity to return to the USA. Stays in the USA, France and Germany followed until he settled permanently in Germany again in 1962 after a hurricane destroyed his house in 1962 and washed all his belongings into the water. The city of Frankfurt then offered him another apartment. No further literary success came until he died on the 28th. Died in November 1970 in Diez on the Oranien family estate.
Quotes
“Unruh and the German Expressionists of that time were friends of peace, were humanitarian and, despite all their love for their homeland, cosmopolitan-minded.” Victor Klemperer
“Fritz von Unruh is in truth an inspiring model for all mankind.” Albert Einstein
Works (in selection)
Dramas
Jürgen Wullenweber. 1908.
officers. 1911.
Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia. 1913.
One gender. Tragedy, 1917.
Place. 1920 (sequel to One Gender)
Storms. Play, 1922.
Rose Garden. 1923.
Bonaparte. Play, 1927.
Phaea. Comedy, 1930.
Zero. Comedy, 1932.
Gandhi. 1935.
Charlotte Corday. 1936.
Miss Roller Skate. 1941.
The Minister of Liberation. 1948.
Wilhelmus. 1953.
Duel on the Havel. Play, 1954.
Bismarck or Why is the soldier standing there? 1955.
Odysseus on Ogygia. Play, 1968.
Novels
sacrificial walk. 1918.
Who never lost. 1948.
The Holy. 1952.
Fear nothing. 1952.
The general's son. 1957.
In the house of the princes. 1967.
Talk
Fatherland and freedom. An address to the German youth, 1923
Politeia. ed. by Ernst Adolf Dreyer, 1933.
Europe wake up! held on Europe Day in Basel, 1936.
Peace on Earth! Peace o Earth! Frankfurt/Main, 1948.
Speech to the Germans. Foreword by Eugen Kogon, 1948.
Be vigilant. Goethe speech, Frankfurt/M., 1948.
University speech. In: What's there. Art and literature in Frankfurt/M., 1952
Dazzling speech. ed. from the Fritz von Unruh Society, Giessen, 1955.
You are not powerful in weapons. Accompanying word by Albert Einstein, 1957.
Call for peace. In: Konkret 7(1961), 1960.
We want peace. Foreword by Hanns Martin Elster, 1961.
Sports and politics. Appeal to youth around the world, 1961.
I call the living. with contribution by Johannes Urzidil, 1962.
Speech to the Frankfurt youth. ed. from the DGB, district committee Frankfurt/M., 1964.
Miscellaneous
Before the decision. 1914.
Wings of Nike. Book of a journey. 1925.
My encounters with Trotsky. 1963.
Peace in USA? A dream. 1967.
Awards and honors
1914 Kleist Prize for Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia
1923 Grillparzer Prize
1947 Wilhelm Raabe Prize
1948 Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt am Main
1955 Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1955 Goethe plaque from the city of Frankfurt am Main
1963 Kogge Literature Prize
1966 Carl von Ossietzky Medal
Honorary citizen of the city of Diez / Lahn
Fritz-von-Unruh-Strasse in Koblenz - Asterstein