Bidspirit auction | Pretzel - Collection of letters

Pretzel - Collection of letters and writings - Pretzel, Ulrich (Germanist; 1898 - 1981). 9 handwritten postcards and 1 handwritten letter card to Kristin Hilkenbach-Maronn, a senior teacher in Lübeck. Mostly postmarked Hamburg, 1969-81. Ulrich Pretzel (brother of Sebastian Haffner, actually Raimund Pretzel) was Professor of German Philology at the University of Hamburg from 1947 to 1966. Included are 5 postcards from 1969-71 and 5 postcards from 1980-81, in which Pretzel thanks his former doctoral student, Miss Maronn (and later Mrs. Hilkenbach), for letters, gifts, and congratulations, arranges visits with her, and reports on travels and publications ('The Middle High German Semantics (is) in print' (published posthumously in 1982), 'Now you have even read a humorous essay I wrote for my youth 44 years ago, which, by the way, also contained a mockery of the Nazis, which Petersen, out of justifiable caution, removed...'). In his last postcard, 18 days before his death, he writes: 'I haven't been feeling well for some time... I've been ordered to the hospital tomorrow... I hope it's not a serious case - I'm sorry that the old Cavalier is causing such trouble.' Enclosed are 6 slips of paper with handwritten notes and records, 1 small portrait photograph, various writings (off-prints, commemorative publications, memorial speeches, etc.), obituaries, invitations from the University of Hamburg, etc.