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Destroyed State Library of Rhenania

1930ies and 40ies

Historical, from the Beginning.
Overall 243 events.

Archive 1921-29

Archive 1951-89

Archive 1990 to now

   Program 1930-1931

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  • Major (ret.) M. Casella: Journey through Egypt

  • Writer H. Weber: Brahmin thinkers

  • Privy Councilor Dr. A. Tribe:
    Schiller as a philosopher

  • Dr. Eberlein: Grand Canyon of Arizona

  • Dir. E. Staedler: Detlev von Liliencron

  • Dr. Oskar Gluth: From his own works

  • Senior building officer H. Hartmann: Ships and shipping

  • Thomas Engelmann:
    Frederick V. Bodenstedt and his Munich years - The poet Judith von Gedow

  • Captain out of service H. v. Gotsch:
    As a farmer and expedition leader in East Africa

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki:
    About Ferdinand Bruckner's play "Elisabeth of England"

  • Privy Councilor Professor Dr. Lucian Scherman:
    Guided tour of the Museum of Ethnology

  • Major General out of service K. Schupbaum:
    Würmtal and Würmsee

  • Christmas nativity play:
    Music H. von Glenck

   Programm 1931-32

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  • Korfiz Holm: Ludwig Thoma on the 10th anniversary of his death

  • Palma from Paszthory-Erdmann, Paszthory Quartet: Chamber music evening

  • Josef Magnus Wehner: From his own works

  • Kurt Stieler and Hilde Herterich: Cheerful Bavarian evening

  • Prof. Dr. M. Dieckmann:
    Zeppelin trip to South America

  • Colonel (ret.) Hoffmann: The new Türkiye

  • Gov. Council Schönwald: Hörbiger's world ice theory

  • Gebrüder Diehl film: Kalif Storch

  • Professor Dr. Cool:
    The higher layers of the earth's atmosphere

  • Dr. Strauss: The Essence of Astrology

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki: 
    Goethe on the 100th anniversary of his death with song recitals

  • Ministerial director off duty Dr. F. Lindner:
    From his own works

  • Mr. and Mrs. Prof. Dr. M. Dieckmann:
    Marionette game "Aladdin's Magic Lamp" - in the authors' home

   Program 1932-33​

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  • Lieutenant colonel out of service from Bessel: Wilhelm Busch

  • Privy Councilor Dr. A. Tribe:
    From ancient Greek choral poetry to modern opera

  • Professor Dr. H. KrieG:
    People and animals in the interior of South America

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki:
    Gerhart Hauptmann on his 70th birthday

  • Korfiz Holm: Björnstjerne Björnson 

  • Dr. E. Kimmerle: The heart and its activity

  • Otto Freiherr. from Waldenfels:
    New methods of family research

  • Semmler, Haider, v. Bessel and others: lecture competition

  • Senior Government Councilor Lösch:
    Scuttling of the fleet at Scapa-Flow

  • Thomas Engelmann:
    From my own experience and von recent booksrn

   Program 1933-34

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  • Senior Government Councilor Lösch:
    My childhood friend Walter Flex

  • Colonel (ret.) Hoffmann:
    German freedom fighters with pen and sword

  • Rittmeister a.D. Baron von. Könitz
    Aviation memories

  • Dr. W.J. Hartmann: From your own works

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki
    Stefan George in memory

  • Colonel a.D.H. v. Bessel:
    Börries von Münchhausen

  • Th. Engelmann: Gustav Frenssen's 7th birthday

  • Colonel a.D. v. Liège: Yorck von Wartenburg

  • Going advice Dr. A. Tribe:
    Education, intellect and temperament

  • Senior Government Councilor Lösch:
    Sign of pride from bad times

  • Dr. B. Lachenschmidt:
    Memories of the Brazilian jungle

  • Th. Engelmann: From our books

  • Christmas party with the participation of Baron von Glenck, Molenaar, Ferron and others.

   Program 1934-35​​

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  • Prof. Dr. H. Molenaar: On the Shakespeare-Bacon question

  • Colonel (ret.) v. Bessel: From his dramatic work World Turn

  • Dr. Karl Nötzel:How today's Russia became

  • Dr. W. J. Hartmann: From your own works

  • Theodore Engelmann: From my business life

  • Prof. Dr. M. Dieckmann: Creative imagination of the technician and inventor

  • Elisabeth v, Brasch: The nature of handwriting and handline interpretation

  • Th. Engelmann: Christmas all over the world

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki: The Hölderlin tragedy

  • Dr. O. Mr. v. Dove: From your own works.

  • Walk through the Pinakothek led by Ernst Haider

   Program 1935-36

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  • Dr. W.J. Hartmann: From your own works

  • Dr. H.G. Göpfert: Paul Ernst

  • Gisela Klein: Singing trip to South Tyrol
    (read by C.G.Klein)

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz:
    Francis of Assisi and 13th Century Italy

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki:
    Heinrich von Kleist

  • Dr. Leopold Weber:
    From his Germanization of the Odyssey

  • Colin Ross: Around the world with Colin Roß (manuscript, read by TH. Engelmann)

  • Dr. Ludwig Scales: Norman and Hohenstaufen art in Lower Italy and Sicily

  • Ernst Haider: Leibl, Thoma, Haider, three southern German painters

  • Hanns Grimm's American speech, introduced and read by Th. Engelmann

  • Christmas party with lectures by Dr. W. J. Hartmann and Ernst Kaemmerer

   Programm 1936-37

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  • Dr. G.H. Göpfert: Of recent poetry

  • Werner Bergengruen: Own works

  • Dr. Kurt Wirth: Around Kilimanjaro

  • Dr. Leopold Weber:
    Reading from your own works

  • Medical Councilor Dr. P. Blobel:
    Through the British and Dutch Indies

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki:
    The German mystic Meister Eckehart

  • Dr. Franz Thierfelder:
    The German language and Germany's global reputation

  • Dr. K.A. Meissinger:
    The adventure in historical research

  • Prof. Dr. O.v. Zwiedineck-Südenhorst:
    Something about the value of money

  • Dr. K.R. Ganzer: German European policy from Leibnitz to modern times

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz:
    Theodoric the Great

  • Christmas party with the participation of: Klein, Hartmann, v. Moltke, Dr. Lachenschmidt et al.

   Programm 1937-38

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  • Dr. Paul Alverdes: From your own works

  • Dr. Ms. Cornelius: The faith of the Greeks

  • Dr. Oskar Jancke:
    Language sins and language offenders

  • Dr. K.A. Meissinger: From your own works

  • Countess Olga Taxis-Bordogna:
    Weimar and its women

  • Dr. Heinrich Zillich: Own works

  • Dr. Georg Leisner: Prehistoric large stone graves in Spain or Portugal

  • Prof. Dr. Oskar Stegemann: From the founding history of our oldest mining company

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki: Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz: Emperor Frederick II, Germany and Italy in the Middle Ages

  • Recitative-musical evening - Hedwig Goetz-Pfister and H. v. Glenck's string section

  • Gebrüder Diehls puppet films with an introduction by Prof. Dr. P. Diehl

  • End of year celebration - with readings by Elsa Bernewitz and Dr. Leopold Weber

   Program 1938-39​

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  • Dr. Arthur Hübscher: Schopenhauer and us

  • Helen Raff: From your own works

  • Hans Brandenburg: From your own works

  • Prof. J. Sauerwein: Togo and Cameroon

  • Dr. Ludwig Finckh: From your own works

  • Senior building officer H. Hartmann:
    A cheerful and serious experience behind Japanese barbed wire

  • Going Council O. Skoniecki: Bettina von Arnim

  • Th. Engelmann:
    Memories from all over the world

  • Study professor Dr. P. Stauber:
    Mathematical and physical aspects of music

  • Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel:
    About my father Leberecht Chicken

  • Dr, Heinz Graupner: From jungle to skyscraper

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz: Emperor Charles V

  • Dr. F. Wölcken:
    Albyn, land and people of Scotland

  • End of the Year Celebration - Recitation Hedwig Goetz-Pfister (Stieler's Winter Idyll)

   Program 1939-40

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  • Dr. Mirok Li (to the blog post):
    From my Korean homeland (with photographs)

  • Walter Jaeger: Reading from works by Alverdes, Carossa, Claudius and others.

  • Consul C. A. Lüderitz:
    Adolf Lüderitz, the colonial pioneer

  • Dr. Fritz Krökel: riedrich Nietzsche

  • Lieutenant General (ret.) K. Held:
    North Africa, a source of power for France

  • Diehl brothers: Three fairy tale puppet films

  • Countess Olga Taxis-Bordogna:
    From her book. Madame de Staël

  • Former forester K. v. Bornstedt:
    The soul of the forest

  • Prof. Dr. A Seyler: Germans in the Himalayas 85 years ago (with original watercolors)

  • Th. Engelmann: German emigrant fates

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz:
    Leonardo da Vinci as a universal personality

  • End of the year celebration with musical participation by Hanna Eschenbrucher, Waltraut Weinreich and Hildegard v. Glenck

​The article from Merkur from January 8, 2015 describes what the newspaper believed it was like to navigate the Literary Society through the Nazional Socialist era. Theodor Engelmann was its chairman from 1934 to 1944.

Newspaper article about Theodor Engelmann, dealing with National Socialist rule

   Program 1940-41

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  • Dr. A. Baron von Pölnitz:
    As a coffee planter in German East Africa

  • Senior Church Councilor O. Daumiller:
    The German essence in Wagner's Meistersinger

  • Dr. W. Höpker: The political world situation

  • Kurt Scherer: A walk through the Christmas book market with a book show

  • Former forester K. v. Bornstedt:
    Animal soul and animal welfare

  • Privy Councilor E. Grosse:
    The political worldview of the Far East

  • Pastor Johannes Zwanzger:
    From my homeland German New Guinea

  • Dr. Ulrich Christoffel: Romantic landscape

  • Dr. Rainer Prevot:
    From my own work and experience

  • Dr. Thomas Muchall-Viebrock:
    Rembrandt's etchings based on originals in the graphic collection

  • Walter Jaeger: Artists in Würmtal

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz: Michelangelo

  • End of year celebration with lecture from "Bembes" by Otto Erhart-Dachau

​   Program 1941-42

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  • Dr. Leopold Weber: Youth memories

  • Dr. Ernst Heimeran: Reflections and sketches

  • Dr. Franz Thierfelder: Dealing with peoples

  • Prof. Dr. K. Schäfer:
    German art in the East

  • Werner Bergengruen: From your own works

  • Countess Olga Taxis-Bordogna:
    Charlotte von Kalb

  • Dr. H.A. Thies:
    From his book The Iron Seal

  • Dr. Gertrud Richert:
    Portraits of Philip II and his family

  • Prof. Dr. Max Dingler: Own dialect poetry

  • State librarian O. Ernst Mehl -German Alsace with a guided tour of an exhibition in the State Library

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz - Machiavelli

  • Dr. H.W, Frickhinger - All sorts of things from the bird world with gramophone records

  • End of year celebration with chats - From far and near (Theodor Engelmann)

   Programm 1942-43

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  • Medical Councilor Dr. K. von Rad:
    The madness in Shakespeare's works

  • Ernst Penzoldt:
    From your own works

  • Dr. Raghunat Paranjpe:
    India and the West

  • Prof. Dr. Kurt Huber: The German folk song in its relationship to the landscape

  • Dr. Wilhelm Diess: Bavarian tales

  • Bernt von Heiseler: From your own works

  • Feodor Seeger:
    As a German bookseller in old Russia

  • Dr. Herbert Böhme:
    From your own works

  • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rohlfs:
    Goldoni and the Italian comedy

  • W. E. Süskind:
    Diseases of our everyday language

  • Dr. Franz Thierfelder: From unpublished works

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz: Wilhelm II and Bismarck

   Programm 1943-45

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  • A. Baron von Czibulka:
    From your own works

  • Dr. Wilhelm Diess: Own stories

  • Dr. H. Gaitanides: The Greeks

  • Prof. Dr. O. von Zwiedineck: Old Austria

  • Dr. Ulrich Christoffel:Hans Holbein the Younger

  • Else von Rad-Spitta:
    Memories from a small university town

  • Sophie Rützow: A journalist tells us

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz
    Dante and Emperor Henry VII

  • Ell Wendt: From your own books

  • Dr. Werner Fischel: Problems and results of recent animal soul research

  • Robert Kothe
    From his memory book String Game of Life

  • Else von Rad-Spitta: Wilhelm Busch

  • Prof. Dr. Walter Goetz
    All kinds of German and foreign names

  • Dr. Franz Thierfelder
    German tribes among themselves

 

(No lectures in 1945)

New departure nineteen hundred forty-six

New effort: Public rally by the newly founded CDU (Image: Konrad Adenauer Foundation)

1946-47_

Programm 1946-47

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Anno domini 1946:
25th anniversary celebration of the Literary Society

 

June 10, 1947 Gräfelfing community:
Letter with instructions for licensing by the military government

Licensing by military government one, commune Graefelfing
License letter from the municipality of Gräfelfing for denazification
Notes on Allied Licensing

      Program in autumn 1947

  • October 1947: Oberkirchenrat Daumiller - The world conference in Caux

  • October 1947: Reinhold Braun - About the power of the soul in our time

  • September 1947: Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. W. Goetz - The self-portrait of Albrecht Dürer

  • September 1947: OStR Dr. Xaver Kroll - The German family names, their origin and meaning

      Program Summer 1947

  • October 1947: Oberkirchenrat Daumiller - The world conference in Caux

  • October 1947: Reinhold Braun - About the power of the soul in our time

  • September 1947: Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. W. Goetz - The self-portrait of Albrecht Dürer

  • September 1947: OStR Dr. Xaver Kroll - The German family names, their origin and meaning

      Program Spring 1947

  • May 1947: Zimmermann - The most beautiful German ballads

  • May 1947: Prof. Dr. W. Küchler - 'The drunken ship' and its poet

  • April 1947: Else vom Rad - 'Of big and small Swabians

  • April 1947: Dr. Rudolf Bach - About Goethe's Faust II. Part with recitation of the 5th act

Staff Entnatification Status

Program 1948

​   Program Autumn 1948

  • November 1948: Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. Goetz - The assessment of Bismarck after two world wars

  • October 1948: Ministerial Director Dr. Lindner - Personal memories from politically turbulent times as well as two humorous stories

  • September 17, 1948: Prof. Michael Schneider - chamber music with the theme The Art of the Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach and played by the string quartet Lisl Bauman, Hanne Bischoff, Marga Streit and Freda von Bültzingslöwen

  • September 1948: General Director Wilhelm Dieß - Stories
     

  • Program Summer 1948

  • August 1948: Dr. Graupner - On the nature of hormones

  • August 1948: Dr. F. Thierfelder - Europe and Western culture

  • August 1948: Dr. Fischl - Recent research into animal instinct

  • July 1948: Dr. Weinreich - Christian social order

Art of Fugue and Toccata by Bach

​   Program Fall 1948

September 1948: Prof. Michael Schneider - chamber music with the theme The Art of the Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach and played by the string quartet Lisl Bauman, Hanne Bischoff, Marga Streit and Freda von Bültzingslöwen

September 1948: General Director Wilhelm Dieß - Stories

October 1948: Ministerial Director Dr. Lindner - Personal memories from politically turbulent times as well as two humorous stories

November 1948: Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. Goetz - The assessment of Bismarck after two world wars

Program 1949
 

  Program in Winter 1949

  • December 1949: Rudolf Lamy - Pre-Christmas meeting with a small program

Torquato Tasso cover page program booklet
Garden on Tassilostrasse, studying the roll booklet
Actors at Work
Gartencaft
Tasso event

   Programm in Autumn 1949

  • November 1949: Reinhold Braun and Albert Schweitzer - The Westerner and jungle doctor, followed by a social gathering for Reinhold Braun's 70th birthday

  • November 1949: University professor Dr. YES. Baron von Reißwitz - Landscape and people as history-forming forces on the Balkan Peninsula

  • October 1949: Eugen Roth - From his own works

  • October 1949: Dr. Karl Busch - Albrecht Altdorfer

  • September 11, 1949: Open-air festival performance for Goethe's 200th birthday - Torquato Tasso

The cultural life in Gräfelfing

Program 1950

​  Programm in Autumn 1950

  • November 1950: Dr. H.G. Göpfert, Dr. H. Braun and Doris Steppberger - three-way conversation about important books of the year and the well-ordered Christmas table

  • November 29, 1950: Drama circle - 'The Trojan Women' by Euripides as broadcast by Franz Werfel

  • November 1950: Prof. Elly Ney plays piano sonatas by Beethoven

  • November 1950: Ernst Heimeran - reading from his own works and chats with a publisher

  • November 1950: Prof. Rosl Schmid - concert with Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann
     

  • October 1950: Abbot Dr. S. Mitterer OSB from Schäftlarn Monastery - The cultural significance of the old Bavarian monasteries

  • October 1950: Lore Bronner, Gerta Wandelsleben, Dr. Heinz Bischoff - Ballad Evening

  • October 1950: Reinhold Braun - The life of Helen Keller - blind and deaf and yet fulfilled

  • September 1950: Theodor Engelmann -
    Emigration, a German fate

  • September 1950: Dr. Gerhard von Rad - The book of Job in the Old Testament and its meaning in a contemporary context

Tojan women in advertising
Trojanerinnen als Eintrittskarte

  Programm in Summer 1950

  • August 1950: Dr. Georg Boss - The newly discovered royal tombs of the Zimbabwean culture in southern Africa

  • July 1950: Special event on the 200th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death - love, music and the death of Johann Sebastian Bach - violin; Herma Studeny, harpsichord: Karl Heinz Klein, speaker in the scenes by Peter Paul Althaus: Ernst Martens, Gerta Wandesleben under the direction of Lore Bronner

  • June 1950: Acting Studio Lore Bronner, Sissy von Tucher, Gerta Wandersleben
    Rainer Maria Rilke: Poems and excerpts from the recordings of Malte Laurids Brigge with Lisl Baumann's string quartet, playing Mozart and Bach

  • June 1950: Free Community of Young Authors -
    Contemporary works in prose and poetry

   Herbst 1950

  • Oktober 1950: Abt Dr. S. Mitterer OSB vom Kloster Schäftlarn - Die kulturelle Bedeutung der altbayerischen Klöster

  • Oktober 1950: Lore Bronner, Gerta Wandelsleben, Dr. Heinz Bischoff - Balladen-Abend

  • Oktober 1950: Reinhold Braun - Das Leben von Helen Keller - blind und taub und doch erfüllt

  • September 1950: Theodor Engelmann -
    Auswanderung, ein deutsches Schicksal

  • September 1950: Dr. Gerhard von Rad - Das Buch Hiob des alten Testament und seine Bedeutung im zeitgemäßen Kontext
     

  • November 1950: Dr. H. G. Göpfert, Dr. H. Braun und Doris Steppberger - Dreiergespräch über wichtige Bücher des Jahres und der wohlbestellte Weihnachtstisch

  • 29. November 1950: Schauspielkreis - Die Troerinnen des Euripides in der Übertragung von Franz Werfe​l

  • November 1950: Prof. Elly Ney spielt Klaviersonaten von Beethoven

  • November 1950: Ernst Heimeran - Lesung aus eigenen Werken und Plaudereien eines Verlegers

  • November 1950: Prof. Rosl Schmid - Konzert mit Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann

Newspaper articles from cultural life in Starnberg

Image: The Baden State Library after the bombing from September 2nd to 3rd, 1942
Reference and license: Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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