They bid onHandwritten, signed postcarde from Willem Nicolaas du Rieu (1829-1896), classical philologist and historian and head of theLeiden University Library; he was also head of the coin cabinet (The Royal Penning Cabinet). He was a son of the mayor of Leiden, Paul du Rieu (1791-1857).
Language: German.
DatedSuffering, the 15th January 1894.
Aimed at Professor K. Zacher at the University of Breslau, the German classical philologist Konrad Zacher (1851-1907).
Based on Zacher's essay in progress "The scholia to Aristophanes' Lysistrate in the codex Leidensis"; published in the year 1894 of the Berlin Philological Weekly (No. 11, pp. 347-351, and no. 12, pp. 379-384).
Transcription:"Dear Professor! Hoping that the extended stay will be oursLysistrata manuscript in Breslau for your edition and the science will provide very significant (???), I allow you to keep the codex for the corrections. Please show this postcard to my colleague Stand with kind regards. For me it was already decided that this codex (???) was a piece by Laurentionus(?).
With kind regards and thanks for the devastating review of the Hein edition, yours truly, Dr. WN you Rieu."
Note:Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes, about whom Zacher has published several works and essays. -- The "colleague Stände" refers to Josef Staender (1842-1917), head of the Breslau University Library.
Format: 9x13.7cm
On fairly thin paper (5 cent postal stationery).
Condition: Paper slightly stained, with corner creases and slight edge damage and stamp print-through. bitPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: FM 200913
About Konrad Zacher and the work Lysistrata (source: wikipedia):
Konrad Zacher (*18. January 1851 in Halle; † 4. November 1907 in Breslau) was a German classical philologist who worked as an associate professor at the University of Breslau (1881–1907).
Life: Konrad Zacher, the son of the German scholar Julius Zacher (1816–1887), grew up in Halle and Königsberg, where his father initially worked as a librarian and later as a professor of German philology.
Konrad Zacher attended the high school in Königsberg and, from 1863, the Latin school of the Francke Foundation in Halle. After graduating (1867), he studied classical philology, history and education at the universities of Halle and Berlin, interrupted by voluntary participation in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. In Halle, Zacher received his doctorate in 1873 with the dissertation De prioris nominum compositorum Graecorum partis formatione and his habilitation in 1877.
After a year-long study trip to Italy (1880/1881), Zacher was appointed as a paid associate professor of classical philology at the University of Breslau. Since the 1st In October 1884, Zacher also gave lessons in art history at the Royal Art and Trade School. Despite many years of varied teaching activities, he remained until his death on January 4th. November 1907 became an associate professor and did not receive any appointments to universities abroad.
In his research work, Zacher particularly focused on the comedian Aristophanes, Greek word formation and pronunciation. His work received little recognition in the scientific world. In particular, his critical edition of The Knights of Aristophanes (Leipzig 1897) was viewed negatively by experts (Georg Kaibel, Johannes Vahlen).
The philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff tried to hinder Zacher's academic progress. In a letter to the Ministerial Director Friedrich Althoff dated 22. In August 1889 he assigned Zacher to the “zeros and minuses” of Breslau philology and added: “Kaibel and I warned against Zacher at the time in vain.” When Zacher's appointment as full professor was under discussion, Wilamowitz further expanded on his judgment of Zacher (letter dated August 8th). February 1891):
“I can overlook his scientific achievements, which concern Aristophanes or rather his explainers; they are not wrong but terribly minor. and his teaching successes are best characterized by the private lecturers who, one after the other, overtook him.”
Even years later, on the 13th August 1907, Wilamowitz strongly advised against Zacher's promotion: “The first thing is that Zacher doesn't move up: since philology in Silesia is already at a lower level than anywhere else, you can't ruin it by promoting a man , who may have made even more of a fiasco as a teacher than as a scholar.”
Lysistrata is one of the most famous comedies by the Greek poet Aristophanes. It was created by him in the spring of 411 BC. BC - performed by the Lenaeans in the twentieth year of the Peloponnesian War. In the same year, aristocrats in Athens overthrew the radical democratic government in a coup. Lysistrata is the third of Aristophanes' pacifist plays that have war as their theme.
Content: The piece deals with the fight of some women against men as the cause of war and the suffering that comes with it. Driven by this knowledge, the women of Athens and Sparta conspire to force peace. Under the leadership of the titular heroine Lysistrata, they occupy the Acropolis and from then on refuse their husbands sexually. In Sparta, Lampito does the same. After a few complications and relapses - love-struck women try to leave the castle in the direction of the men several times, or the angry gentlemen try to storm the castle - the withdrawal of love actually leads to success.
Aftermath: Lysistrata is also the name of an operetta by Paul Lincke, from which the “Glowworm Idyll” in particular is of lasting fame. An asteroid discovered in 1918 by German astronomer Max Wolf was named Lysistrata after the title character. Richard Mohaupt created a ballet of the same name in 1941, a ballet suite for the concert hall in 1946 and an adaptation of the ballet in 1957 entitled The Women's Strike in Athens.[1] Alfred Stöger took on the topic in his 1947 film comedy Triumph of Love. At the beginning of the 1960s, the author Hans Kasper took up the Lysistrata motif for his award-winning radio play Help David (hr/BR 1962). Lysistrata can be understood as a prototype of a newer literature denouncing the war, cf. For example, the 1935 play The Trojan War Isn't Happening by Jean Giraudoux.
In January 1961, the broadcast of an adaptation of the comedy by Fritz Kortner under the title The Broadcast of Lysistrata was boycotted by Bayerischer Rundfunk on the grounds that the comedy violated the moral sensibilities of the population. The CDU-governed states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Saarland had also originally expressed concerns, but broadcast the program. In Bavaria, the comedy was shown in cinemas instead. The background was the Adenauer government's efforts at the time to arm the Federal Republic with nuclear weapons, which the director Kortner had alluded to in his production.
In 1967, the theme of the piece was given a catchy, modern formulation in the slogan “Make love, not war” of the hippie movement.
In the 1966 science fiction novel Revolt on Luna by Robert A. Heinlein, laser cannons are used to defend the moon. When the male operating crews showed deficiencies in their willingness and reliability, this important task was taken over by women in the Lysistrata Corps, which was founded specifically for this purpose.
Rolf Hochhuth's island comedy (original title: Lysistrate and NATO) from 1974 moves the action to the 1970s to an unnamed island in the Aegean where the USA wants to build a missile base. The women on the island fear that this plan would make their homeland a target for Russian missiles in an emergency and are refusing - egged on by MP Dr. Lysistrate Soulidis – her men because they want to sell their land. They stay in the only inn on the island, repel a "conquest" by their men and get involved with some officers of the Greek Navy who have come to scout out suitable locations for the missile base. In 1976 the work was made into a film by Ludo Mich, with all the actors appearing naked.
In 1987, Lysistrata was interpreted by the comic artist Ralf König in the form of a comic of the same name. The template served as the basis for a satire riddled with anachronisms on gender roles and sexuality, war and pacifism, as well as on theater and Greek comedy itself. The main focus of the plot is on the topic of homosexuality. The material was filmed in Spain in 2002 and was also released in German-speaking cinemas in 2004.
While earlier translations were very moderate and based on the language of Schiller and Goethe (cf. the fourth scene in the translation by Ludwig Seeger[5]), the translation by the classical philologist Niklas Holzberg from 2009 uses modern language and reproduces the often quite crude language of the original bluntly but scientifically correctly.
A modern film adaptation titled Chi-Raq was released in theaters in 2015. In the same year, the short film Prologue, based on the play, was made. In 1896, the English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley created a famous pornographic illustration suite of eight images.