Papers concerning Rainer Maria Rilke, 1953-1956.

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Papers concerning Rainer Maria Rilke, 1953-1956.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83299878

Includes letters from Bassermann and his sister, Johanna Bassermann Baumann, to Gisela Zuckmayer concerning Rilke, a composition by Bassermann titled, Orpheus und die grosse Befreiung, and clippings.

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Bassermann, Dieter, 1887-1955.

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Dieter Bassermann was a German writer, translator, editor, buyer, and teacher. Rilke was a German poet. From the description of Papers concerning Rainer Maria Rilke, 1953-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83299878 ...

Zuckmayer, Gisela,

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Baumann, Johanna Bassermann,

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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

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Rilke wrote to Werfel in 1913 after reading Werfel's first 2 books of poems, Der Weltfreund and Wir sind. They met for the first time in the same year. Ruth Siebe-Rilke was the daughter of Rilke and Clara Westhoff; here she signs her name Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke. She was at that time the administrator of the Rilke family archive, located in Fischerhude, near Bremen, Germany. (More recently the archive has been located in Gernsbach.) From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werf...