The German Literature Archive Marbach recently at Christie's in London auctioned several valuable autographs, including a lengthy letter from Friedrich Schiller to his friend Christian Gottfried Körner familiar from 1788. The letter added to the convolute in Marbach. The 19th Century scattered correspondence with the probably most important, besides Goethe Schiller correspondents were brought together in the German Literature Archive Marbach in large part again. Furthermore, letters of Hofmannsthal, Rilke purchased (to Harry Graf Kessler) and Joseph Roth, the latter with an invective against the Guild of Editors: makes "For the impotence a man on the editor and just write what I do not like the impotent ...«. Purchased was also a sequence of 27 letters and postcards Franz Werfel's from the years 1916/17 to later Marxist theorist of psychoanalysis and friend of Leon Trotsky, Alice Rühle-Gerstel.
Contact:
German Literature Archive in Marbach
Schillerhöhe 80-10
71672 Marbach am Neckar
Tel: 07 144 / 848-0
Fax: 07 144 / 848-299
Source: press release German Literature Archive in Marbach , 07/24/2007
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