Musicologist Detlef GOJOWY: Writing DAAD trip in 1967

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You are bidding on one Typescript carbon copy, two Postcards as well as three letters of the musicologist Detlef Gojowy (1934-2008).

Regards Gojowy's trip to Warsaw, Moscow and Leningrad from 14. September to 18th October 1967, which he was able to undertake thanks to a DAAD scholarship. There he conducted research for his dissertation "Modern music in the Soviet Union until 1930."

Addressed to a friend named Gisela in Berlin (last name censored in the photos).

Each signed "Detlef"; In the case of a typescript, the full name is given; in the case of a postcard, the sender's stamp is given.

Scope:

1.) 10-page typescript carbon copy (or hectography?) from "Report on my research trip to the USSR on January 14th. September to 18th October 1967." Addressed to the German Research Foundation, Department for Scientific Relations with the Soviet Union. Dated Hildesheim, 13. November 1967. The signature is also available in copy. Loose sheets (blank backs) stapled with paper clips.

The sub-points are: Aim of the trip // Travel dates // Planning and carrying out the trip // Stay in Warsaw // Stay in the USSR (course and working conditions: libraries; manuscript departments and archives; composers' association; manuscripts in private ownership; musical items in the trade; contacts with composers and musicologists; general impressions) // work results (on Soviet modern music up to 1930; on current Soviet modernity; other results; publications).

2.) Postcard, dated 11. September 1967 (postmark Hildesheim), written 3 days before departure. Mentioned is the delayed "Polish visa [...], with which the responsible military commission is confidently taking its time in its own bumbling style. [...] My Soviet friend from East Berlin, whom I also wanted to contact while passing through, has, as I found out today, stayed on a concert tour in Israel..."

3.) Postcard, dated Warsaw, 21. September 1967 (Image motif: Warszawa, Ulica Freta). With note “Returned” / “Recipient not reached”. Short message about the happy arrival in Warsaw.

4.) Letter, dated Warsaw - Moscow, 25. September 1967.5 ½ written pages (29.8 x 21.3 cm). About the hosts (she is an unemployed doctor), about the country ("I actually felt really comfortable in Poland. There is the ineradicable liberality of the country, which has always existed more as a society than as a state - even today") and differences with the Soviet Union ("The country is a fatherly country [...]") and the railways there.

5.) Letter, dated Moscow, 28. September 1967. 7 written pages (29.8 x 21.4 cm). About the "strange city" of Moscow ("I have - Rudi Dutschke may forgive me - never had the convincing impression that I was in a socialist country"), the metro ("underground fairytale world"), about libraries there, Hotel, traffic, the residents ("Sometimes it seems to me that they don't lack maturity - yet", emotional, childlike), about the missing telephone book & city map in Moscow, German politics, surveillance (which he doesn't notice).

6.) Letter, dated Hildesheim, the 20th. October 1967. Almost 4 p. (20.8 x 14, cm). News of the return, a little review, plans for the near future...

Condition: Letters without envelopes. The second postcardbow, otherwise the collection is in good condition. Please also note thise pictures at the end of the item description!

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About Detlef Gojowy (Source: wikipedia):

Peter Lars Detlef Gojowy (* 7. October 1934 in Freital; † 12. October 2008 in Remagen) was a German musicologist.

Life: After attending the Kreuzschule Dresden in Berlin and Göttingen, Gojowy studied German, musicology and Slavic studies. He received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1966 on modern music in the Soviet Union up to 1930. In 1967 a DAAD scholarship took him to Moscow and Leningrad. Gojowy then worked in school, at the Bach Institute in Göttingen and at the German Music Council, then as a radio editor for new music at Radio Bremen and from 1978 to 1997 at Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

The focus of Gojowy's musicological work was Johann Sebastian Bach and Eastern European music of the 20th century. century. Among other things, he published the book New Soviet Music of the 1920s in 1980 (based on his dissertation) and a biography of Dmitri Shostakovich in 1983. Gojowy's academic legacy has been at the Institute for Music at the University of Oldenburg since 2010.