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Lot #    19834
Auction End Date    1/8/2008 1:13:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Die Sanduhr: Gedichte
Author    [Signed Copy] Manfred Sturmann
City    St. Gallen
Publisher    Tschudy-Verlag
Publication Date    [1954]
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 43 pp., 194:120 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound as issued. Copy is autographed and dedicated to Else Kober.
          
Detailed
Description		    A volume of poetry by the award winning poet Manfred Sturmann (1903–1989), Israeli author writing in German. Born in Koenigsberg (East Prussia), his first book, Althebraeische Lyrik—a rendering of biblical poetry into German—appeared in 1923 with an introduction by Arnold Zweig. This was followed by several books of his own lyrical poems, the first of which, Die Erben (1929), was awarded the Lyrics Prize of the City of Munich. After his immigration to Erez Israel in 1938, he continued writing poetry as well as short stories in German. He dealt with the involved problem of an “Israel poet in the German language” in an essay published in Meilensteine—Vom Wege des Kartells Juedischer Verbindungen KJV in der Zionistischen Bewegung (Tel Aviv, 1972). He stated that both the serene landscape of the years of his youth and “the discovery of the Zionist dream" had a decisive influence on his outlook, his thinking and his writing. Some of the short stories Sturmann wrote in Israel were inspired by his experience in the war of 1948, his social work in Jerusalem and his deep love of this city and the cosuntry: Die Kreatur (1952) and Abschied von Europa (1963) contain a representative selection of his short stories. He was the literary administrator of Else Lasker-Schueler.
          
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Description		    Source: EJ
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
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Autographed:    Checked
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
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Kind of Judaica