You are bidding on oneGerman postcard out ofDenmark from 1907.

Written in Liseleje (on Sjælland, Denmark), with postmark Frederiksværk, 24. July 1907.

A M. Popea (?) turns to the Publishing bookseller Plothow in Berlin and inquires about the foreign address of the German journalist and writer Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll (1877-1951).

"Must him in urgent Write a family matter & there a letter & telegram remained unanswered, I assume that he is away."

What is meant is the Pantheon-Verlag Bruno CL plothow, in which Gomoll's work "Dreams and Journeys" was published in 1906.

The recipient wrote down Gomoll's address on the address page.

Format: 8.8x14cm.

On pretty thin paper.

Condition: Map slightly browned, with corner creases. Please BEAalso look at the pictures!

Internal note: FM 201025 in folder white Bockum

About Liselije and WC Gomoll (source: wikipedia):

Liselejeis a Danish town with 2499 inhabitants (as of 01.01. January 2020[1]) on Sjælland (Eng.: Zealand). The village is located in the parish (Danish: Sogn) Melby (Melby Sogn), which belonged to 1970 to Harde Strø Herred in the then Frederiksborg office. With the dissolution of the Harden structure, the parish was included in Frederiksværk Municipality, which in turn went with the municipal reform on 1. January 2007 with other municipalities in the newly formed Halsnæs Municipality, which is part of the Hovedstaden region.

Liseleje is about seven kilometers north of Frederiksværk and almost nine kilometers north-east of Hundested.

The asteroid (9272) Liseleje was named after the town in 2009.

Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll (* 14. November 1877 in Berlin; † 20 February 1951) was a German journalist and writer.

Life: Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll was born in Berlin in 1877. He studied German, literature and art history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, the University of Zurich and the University of Geneva. During his studies, Gomoll traveled abroad to Greece, Denmark and southern Scandinavia and worked as a freelance journalist from 1896 to 1899 in Switzerland, France and Italy. In 1900, Gomoll began a traineeship in the editorial office of the newspaper “Berliner Latest News”, which later merged into the newspaper “Die Post”. In 1903 he published his first volume of poetry. In 1910 Gomoll became a lecturer in literature and art history at the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus in Berlin.

After the beginning of the First World War, Gomoll was appointed war correspondent and placed under the intelligence department of the General Staff of the Field Army. By the end of the war, Gomoll was in various theaters of war and worked as a war correspondent for the main headquarters for, among others, the Schlesische Zeitung, the Kölnische Zeitung, the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and the Leipziger Latest News.

After the war, Gomoll settled in Kleinmachnow and became the editor of the Kreuzzeitung. Gomoll became a member of the Berlin Press Association. In 1929 he became head of the press department of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft.

Even before the National Socialists seized power, Gomoll became a member of the NSDAP.

In 1932, Gomoll took part in an anthology published by Ludwig Kunz in honor of Wilhelm Lehmann on his 50th birthday. Birthday.

During the Nazi era, Gomoll became a member of the advisory board of the Reich Association of German Writers, founded in 1933. He also became head of the press department at the German War Graves Commission.

literary creation

Gomoll appeared mainly as a poet. His work as a writer is mentioned in Franz Brümmer's overview of poets and Adolf Bartels' literary history. He wrote the Lübeck novel "Hogesünn" and the short stories "Totentanz". The composer Hans Koessler set Gomoll's poem Hymn to Beauty to music.