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Letter by Walter A. Berendsohn to Karl Ludwig Schneider, September 1, 1965
https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-8.en.v1
Walter A. Berendsohn
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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The P. Walter Jacob Archive, part of the Walter A. Berendsohn Research
Center for German Exile Literature, houses a part of Berendsohn’s
estate which includes his extensive correspondence. This handwritten
draft of a two-page letter Berendsohn wrote or sent on September 1st,
1965 in Bromma, Sweden, stems from the archive. It is unclear whether
the note “sent” refers to the date or was made for filing
purposes. The letter is addressed to his colleague Karl Ludwig
Schneider, a professor at Hamburg University’s literature
department, who did not reply until two months later since he was in
the United States at the time. The draft letter written on the back of
a newsletter by the Jakob Hegner publishing company contains several
emphases, insertions, and deletions. As was his habit, Berendsohn not
only noted that this was a draft but he also added the geographical
specification “West Germany”, as he did in all his letters
addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany. In his letter to
Schneider, Berendsohn explained his plans for returning to Hamburg
University as a visiting lecturer teaching exile literature in the
summer semester of 1966.
2017-02-22