Personal documents, diaries, literary manuscripts, and correspondence including letters from Thomas Mann and Ernst Wiechert concerning Lemke's work

Musical scores, photos, albums, and clippings about the cantor Leopold Lemke

Manuscript: "Freie Deutsch und freie Juden. Aufsaetze, Reden, Briefe fuer die Vereinigung freier Deutscher in Bolivien". 1943-44; German, 42 p.; typed. Essays, speeches and correspondence relating to an association of German immmigrants of the Nazi era to Bolivia

Manuscript: "Leid und Lob und Liebe. Gedichte". Undated; German, 119 p.; typed. Lyrical poems

Manuscript: "Golus-Gesang". Undated; German, 61 p.; typed. Poems on various personal and Jewish issues (exile, religion, holidays, biblical stories) in the Diaspora

Six short stories, "Freudenmaier" typescript, 16 pages; "Illusion" typescript, 5 pages; not title, "Als die Haustuer..." typescript, 13 pages; "Nebel und Schatten" typescript, 11 pages; [Manfred Kulm] "Die Frau mit der Mullhaube. Eine Kaffeehausbegebenheit" typescript, 4 pages; [Manfred Kulm] "Der Unfall" typescript, 3 pages ; "Der blaue Ball mit dem goldenen Stern. Die Geschichte einer Fastnacht," typescript, 118 p. ; "Schweigsame beginnen zu reden" typescript, 130 p., written between 12/1928 and 10/1929

Various notes and fragments, "Die Zersprengten"; "Was soll mit den Toten geschehen? 6 Fragmente zu einer Legende aus dem Jahre 1932"; "Die Mutter des Fluechtlings" written from June 1944; "Das Los des Invaliden" 1929; "...und Morgen die ganze Welt? Pogromlosungen im Herzen Yorkvilles"; "Meir und Marie"; "Krieg"

Poems, 1924-1961

Letter from Thomas Mann, Aug. 12, 1939, removed to the autograph collection. Transcript left in file

The collection contains a large amount of Meinhardt Lemke's work as a writer, several volumes of poetry, some short stories and some novels. It also preserves notes and fragments of poems and novels. The collection contains Meinhardt Lemke's personal and professional correspondence concerning his literary work and his work as a teacher in La Paz. The collection also includes personal documents like his immigration documents, class material from his religious studies in Silesia and Prussia and religious song books compiled by Meinhardt Lemkes father, Leopold Lemke (1905)

Mainhardt Lemke was born on April 22, 1904 in Fordon (today in Poland). He studied in Breslau (now Wrocaw, Poland) and Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and worked for a short time as a journalist, writing poems and short stories. The well-known novelist Ernst Wiechert supported his lyrical talent. Until 1933 Lemke worked in the University of Breslau's library where he studied Jewish history and Judaic studies. In 1939 Meinhardt Lemke was arrested and brought to Dachau concentration camp. He immigrated to Bolivia in 1939 where he worked as a religious teacher and as a preacher in the Jewish community. In 1946 he came to New York, where he died on March 12, 1962. He also wrote under the nom de plume Manfred Kulm

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Photographs removed to Photograph Collection

Music ; cantors ; Picard, Jacob

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