Lot 110 Eine Mauer um uns baue …

Eine Mauer um uns baue (DSchild). Kalligraphisches hs. Manuskript in roter und schwarzer Tinte. Um 1937. 22 nn. Bl. 4°. HLwd. d. Zt. mit mont. hs. DSchild in Rot u. Schwarz.

Wiechert, Ernst

Autographen – Erich Wiechert (1887-1950) war ein deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller und Lehrer. Er zählt zu den in den 1930er bis weit in die 1950er Jahre meist gelesenen Schriftstellern sowie zu den Schriftstellern der Inneren Emigration im Nationalsozialismus. Wiecherts bekanntestes Werk "Der Totenwald", ein 1939 niedergeschriebener Bericht über seine Hafterlebnisse im Münchener Polizeigefängnis und im KZ Buchenwald, der bis Kriegsende in einem Blechkasten im Garten des Gagerthofs vergraben lag, erschien 1946 in Zürich. Die hier vorliegende Abschrift von Wiecherts 'Dankschrift' erschien erstmals am 19. Mai 1937 in der Frankfurter Zeitung und muss wohl kurz danach entstanden sein, da die 1938 in Mainz erschienene erste Buchveröffentlichung unter dem erweiterten Titel "Vom Trost der Welt. Eine Mauer um uns baue" erschien. - Seitenränder tls. gering stockfleckig.

Autographs – Calligraphic manuscript in red and black inks. Contemp. half cloth with onlaid manuscript title. - Ernst Wiechert was a German teacher, poet and writer, whose humanist ideals and outspoken criticism of the National Socialist Party throughout the 1930s would result in his incarceration in Buchenwald concentration in 1938. He secretly kept a memoir of his imprisonment and buried the manuscript, which was published in 1945 as "Der Totenwald" (forest of the dead). Wiechert's reflective essay addressed to youth, "Eine Mauer um uns baue" was a 'Dankaufsatz' written to mark his fiftieth birthday, and was published in the sympathetic 'Frankfurther Zeitung' on 19 May 1937. It appears certain that the present calliphraphic manuscript by an anonymous admirer of Wiechert's philosophy was copied from this edition of the 'Frankfurter Zeitung' soon after its publication, as the first separately published edition that appeared the following year included an additional phrase at the beginning of the title ("Vom Trost der Welt. Eine Mauer um uns baue"). - Occ. minor foxing to page margins.

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