You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed letter card ofwriters and journalists Otto Rombach (1904-1984).
Undated; the return address Berlin, Pariser Str. 17a, refers to his time in Berlin as an editor, journalist and freelance writer (1929-1945). At this address he is in the Berlin address books of the years 1935-1943 (more in the 2. WK not published).
Aimed at the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976), head of the features section of the Königsberger Hartungsche Zeitung until it had to be dissolved at the end of 1933; In 1934 he moved to Berlin. -- From his estate.
Transcription: "Dear, dear Dr. Kroll! Your kind words have been very comforting to me during these sad days, and I thank you very much for them, also on behalf of my relatives. We just have to keep going and keep going, no matter how difficult it is sometimes. Kind regards and thanks again! Yours, Otto Rombach."
Scope: 1-sided written card (9.3 x 15 cm); without envelope.
Note:In one of my photos there is an unintentional small piece of plastic cut out on the card; Of course there is no loss of text etc. here. before.
Condition: Card punched at bottom edge; strong paper slightly browned.bPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-3 Autograph Autograph
About Otto Rombach and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):
Otto August Rombach (* 22. July 1904 in Böckingen, today in Heilbronn; † 19. May 1984 in Bietigheim-Bissingen) was a German writer and journalist.
Liven:Rombach was born in Böckingen, but moved to Bietigheim with his parents in 1905 as a toddler. He comes from a family of artists; his father August Rombach was a painter, his brother Richard became a cameraman at the UFA in Berlin and his brother Hermann Rombach became a painter and draftsman.
Otto Rombach was initially a journalist at the Frankfurter Zeitung, later in Berlin. He gained fame as a writer from 1928 onwards with poems, plays, novellas, radio plays and historical novels such as The Young Mr Alexius (1940), but especially with Adrian the Tulip Thief (1935), filmed in 1966 as the first German television series in color and on 25. It premiered as a play (stage adaptation by Martin Chlupka) in January 2009 at the Altonaer Theater, Hamburg.
He wrote short stories, novels, plays, poems and travelogues.
The Otto Rombach scholarship for talented young musicians, painters and writers, which the city of Heilbronn awards annually from a Rombach foundation, is named after him.
Awards: In 1941, Rombach was awarded the Swabian Poetry Prize, a Nazi literary prize established by the Württemberg Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Christian Mergenthaler in 1935. In 1964 he received the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the Medal of Honor from the city of Heilbronn and became an honorary citizen of the city of Bietigheim. Since 1949 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. In 1965 he became an honorary member of the Académie Berrichonne in Bourges, France. The Baden-Württemberg state government honored him with the title of professor in 1969. In 1981 he received the State Medal of Merit, and in 1984 the Bietigheim-Bissingen city library was renamed the Otto Rombach Library. In Furtwangen in the Black Forest there is an Otto-Rombach-Weg, in Heilbronn-Böckingen, his birthplace, there is the Rombachstrasse.
Works (selection)
Gazette poetry. Poems of a Young Journalist (poetry, 1928)
Adrian, the tulip thief. A picaresque novel (1936)
The Steadfast Geometer. A novel about the young Danube (1938, reprinted in 1952 as Cornelia and the Steadfast Geometer)
The young Mr. Alexius (historical novel about a merchant from the Ravensburger trading company, 1940)
Gordian and the Riches of Life (novel, 1952)
The Good King René (historical novel, 1964)
Italian Travels (travel report, 1967)
Forward, backward, my track. Stories from my life (autobiography, 1974)
Happy country. On Lake Constance and Neckar, between Ries and Rhine (travel report, 1976)
Erwin Kroll (*3. February 1886 in Deutsch Eylau, East Prussia; † 7. March 1976 in West Berlin) was a German pianist, composer, writer and music critic. Like his friend Otto Besch, Kroll was an East Prussian composer.
Life:Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the Royal Hufengymnasium with Otto Besch. At the Albertus UniversityHe studied philology and music. With a doctoral thesis on ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg, he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate, he went into teaching. In 1919 he turned entirely to music and continued his studies in Munich, which he had begun with Otto Fiebach and Paul Scheinpflug. There he found an important teacher, especially in Hans Pfitzner. He later dedicated a highly acclaimed book to him. In addition to his studies, Kroll was an accompanist at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans Pfitzner Association for German Music, which Thomas Mann had called for to be founded. In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 onwards it was its features editor.Since 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and music writer. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk in Berlin until 1953. With his book, Kroll has created a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.
factories
East Prussian homeland - orchestral work
Violin Sonata in B major
Sonatina in F major
East Prussian dances
The Adebar - fantasy about East Prussian folk tunes for large orchestra
Vocal works and song arrangements
Songs for solo voices and choir songs
Fonts
Music city Koenigsberg
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1923.
Hans Pfitzner. Three Masks Verlag, Munich 1924 .
The theater. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Dortmund Municipal Theater. The theater, Berlin 1930.
Carl Maria Weber. Athenaion, Potsdam 1934 .
Music city Königsberg. Atlantis, Freiburg i. Br. 1966.
Honors
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit on Ribbon (27. January 1956)
Cultural Prize of the East Prussian State Team (1960)