You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed New Year's card ofActors, dramaturgs, directors and theater managers Rudolf Sellner (1905-1990), general director and chief director of the German opera in West Berlin.
Pre-printedGreetings card for New Year 1969, dated Deutsche Oper Berlin, December 1968.
With personal dedication "Yours, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, with warm respect!"
Motive:naive drawing ("World of Music - Europe") by the British graphic artist Tom Eckersley (1914-1997) for UNICEF.
Format: 10.8 x 15.3 cm.
Without envelope.
Condition: Card browned and unsightly stained (coffee stains?). Please notecheck out the pictures too!
Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-15 Autograph Autograph
About Rudolf Sellner andThomas Eckersley (Source: wikipedia):
Gustav Rudolf Sellner (*25. May 1905 in Traunstein; † 8th. May 1990 in Königsfeld-Burgberg) was a German actor, dramaturge, director and theater director. He emerged in the 1950s as a representative of a formally radically modernized, “instrumental theater”.
Life
From actor to director:Gustav Rudolf Sellner began his career as an actor, dramaturg and theater director at theaters in Mannheim under Francesco Sioli (1925–1927), in Gotha (1928/29) and Coburg (1929–1931). During this time he was deeply influenced by the works of directors Otto Falckenberg, Leopold Jessner and Erwin Piscator. Between 1932 and 1937 he worked as a senior director, dramaturg and actor at the Landestheater Oldenburg.
On the 1st In May 1933, Sellner joined the NSDAP (membership number 2,856,507). He then held the office of district manager in Oldenburg, was temporarily an SA candidate and head of the Thing venue “Kultstätte Stedingsehre”.
After Sellner stood out through several productions in the spirit of National Socialist cultural policy, he was appointed acting director at the Landestheater Oldenburg in 1937. Three years later he moved to the Göttingen City Theater as director (1940–1943). Sellner was then director of the Hanover Municipal Theater (1943/44). From 1943 to 1945 Sellner was the regional cultural councilor in the South Hanover-Braunschweig district.
In Hanover, Sellner also headed the “Hannover Theater School” from December 1943, which was newly founded under the umbrella of the Hanover State Music School. In April 1944, Sellner was appointed general manager of the Hanover Municipal Theater by Adolf Hitler. In October 1944, after many years of exemption from military service, Sellner was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a driver.
After the end of the Second World War, Sellner was taken prisoner by the US and was interned in two prison camps until 1947. He was classified as a “follower” by a German tribunal during denazification in 1949 and “exonerated” during the revision in 1950.[3] From 1948 to 1951 he worked as a director in Kiel, Essen and Hamburg. In Kiel in 1948 he staged The Persians and Bernarda Alba's House in 1950, the latter piece also in Darmstadt in 1961.
Intendant in Darmstadt and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin: From 1951 to 1961 Sellner was director of the Landestheater Darmstadt. Here he premiered Ernst Barlach's The Count of Ratzeburg in 1951. Sellner also initially ran a small theater school in Darmstadt. When the state stopped subsidies in 1954 due to a lack of placement success among graduates, the theater school had to be closed. In 1954 Sellner directed Troilus and Cressida at the Berlin State Theater and in 1959 at the Ruhr Festival in Der Sturm. In Darmstadt in 1958 he premiered Ionesco's Murderer without payment, and at the Burgtheater he staged Sophocles' ancient cycle with Oedipus the King (1960), Antigone (1961) and Elektra (1963).
At that time, Sellner was considered a representative classic director. At the beginning of the 1960s he turned to opera directing. From 1961 to 1972 he was general director and chief director of the Deutsche Oper in West Berlin. In 1964 he was honored with a bronze bust by the sculptor Heinz Spilker.
He directed, among others, Boris Godunow (1971, Berlin), the premiere of Aribert Reimann's Melusine (1971, at the Schwetzinger Festival), Wozzeck (1971, Salzburg Festival), Idomeneo (1973, Salzburg Festival), Gottfried von Einem's Visit of the Old Lady (1975, National Theater Munich) and The Hunting Party (1974, Theater Basel).
Sellner also occasionally worked for television and film. In Maximilian Schell's production The Pedestrian, Sellner took on the title role, while Schell played his deceased son.
Sellner's first marriage was to the actress Manuela Bruhn in 1940, and his second marriage was to Ilse Sellner from 1951. The first marriage resulted in two children.
factories
Gustav Rudolf Sellner: New German drama. Coburg 1929.
Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Werner Vienna: Theatrical landscape. Bremen 1962.
Filmography
1955: The Kluge (television, director)
1958: The Bernauerin (television, director)
1957: Abu Kasem's Slippers (television, director)
1961: The Rhinos (television, director)
1965: The Silk Shoe (TV series, director)
1968: The Young Lord (director)
1973: The Pedestrian (actor)
1975: Views of a Clown (actor)
1979: David (actor)
1979: Fantasists (television, actor)
1980: A Man from Yesterday (TV, actor)
Awards
1967: Berlin Art Prize
1965: Goethe plaque from the state of Hesse
1965: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1972: Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star
1974: Gold film tape for The Pedestrian
Exhibitions
1996: Gustav Rudolf Sellner. Director and artistic director, Theatermuseum Düsseldorf (an exhibition of the Theater Studies Collection of the University of Cologne)
Thomas Eckersley (*30. September 1914 in Lowton, Lancashire, United Kingdom; † 4. August 1997 in London; also: Tom Eckersley) was a British graphic designer who specialized in poster design.
Life:His artistic training began in 1930 at Salford Art School, where his abilities were quickly recognized and he was awarded the Heywood Medal for the best student. In 1934, Eckersley moved to London and, together with his fellow student Eric Lombers (1914–1978), settled there as a freelance commercial artist. In 1937 he became a teacher at the Westminster School of Art. In 1941 his son Richard Eckersley († 2006), who also became a well-known graphic artist in the United States, was born.
After the Second World War, Thomas Eckersley worked freelance for numerous industrial companies such as British Petroleum; British Broadcasting Corporation; London Transport; and governmental or independent institutions and associations such as UNICEF; World Wide Fund for Nature and for the General Post Office. He designed posters, designed magazines and illustrated books. In 1958 he became head of the graphics department (until 1977) at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts. In 1964, his works were shown at documenta III in Kassel in the graphics department.