Iphigenie auf Tauris : ein Schauspiel : manuscript, 1949.

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Iphigenie auf Tauris : ein Schauspiel : manuscript, 1949.

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Copy made by Gertrude Frenzel-Koehler, in a calligraphic hand, of the verse version of Goethe's play Iphigenie auf Tauris. The main body of the text is in black ink; initials of speeches are in red or blue ink; and initials of scenes are in 2 colors or 2 shades, using various combinations of red, blue, and gold ink. The initials of acts are embellished with swirling patterns in all three colors. Headings and characters' names are in red or blue. The title page (f. 1r) is dated the year of Goethe 1949 (Goethejahr 1949), alluding to the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth. The manuscript comprises 10 numbered, folio-size gatherings that are continuously paginated, with the first gathering (3 bifolia) enclosing the others. A stub (between p. 81 and 82) remains where one leaf has been cut away. Included is a handmade bookmark (laid in), written and decorated in the same style as the manuscript. It bears the following dedication, dated Hellerau, 5 July 1949, to Professor Ernst Jockers, at the University of Pennsylvania: Goethe, Iphigenie, meinen [sic], verehrten, lieben Freund Ernst Jockers gewidmet, Gertrude Frenzel-Koehler.

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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Frenzel-Koehler, Gertrude

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Gertrude Frenzel-Koehler resided in the Hellerau district of Dresden, Germany. She was married to the architect and professor Arthur Frenzel (1899-1975), who was a co-director of the restoration of the Zwinger Palace in Dresden after the Second World War. Frenzel-Koehler produced the manuscripts in this collection for Ernst Jockers (1887-1963), professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, with whom she corresponded at this time. She died no later than 1967. From the descrip...

Jockers, Ernst, 1887-....

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....