Georg Benjamin (b.1895)
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Not today Justin

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祝日 / Permanent Vacation

Love Begins
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Janaina Medeiros
Stranger Things
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TVSTRANGERTHINGS
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Kiana Khansmith

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Georg Benjamin (b.1895)
Walter Benjamin (played by Quim Lecina) drawing Fritz Heinle in “La última frontera” (dir. Manuel Cussó-Ferrer, 1992)
Carl Skoggard maps the connects between WB (Walter Benjamin), DK (Dora Kellner), ES (Ernst Schoen), JC (Jula Cohn), AC (Alfred Cohn), GR (Grete Radt), and FR (Fritz Radt).
Me trying to make sense of ‘Berlin Chronicle’
This letter says so much:
Freiburg July 8, 1913
My most esteemed Miss Seligson,
Thank you for your letter. It arrived here in Freiburg and did not come as a total surprise. Let me formulate what you have written and I have experienced here as the One Question: How are we to save ourselves from the lived experience of our twenties?
Death notice of university professor Leon Kellner (English lexicographer and zionist; father of Dora Kellner)
i finally found (and almost compiled) Dora Kellner’s novel ‘Gas gegen Gas’ which first appeared serialised in the Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkzeitung (1930), and then, for a second time, as ‘Das Mädchen von Lagosta’ in the Innsbrucker Nachrichten (between 24 December and 1931–7 May 1932) and in the Grazer Tagblatt between (25 December 1931–8 May 1932)
Today Juni and I went to Weißensee cemetery. We found the family graves of the Seligsons. We saw blue-stained glass. We saw art nouveau ironwork and tumbled trees. We looked for Traute but couldn’t find her and Willi Caro but also couldn’t find him. We did, however, find Rika, huddled behind a grand corner mausoleum. The stone is modest. That she took her own life means no date is given, only her name and the grave number, equated in size. It was moving moment to find her grave and I wonder if to return on 8 August, the date of her death, to mark what the stone cannot
The video below comes, perhaps, from this schedule, from the Radio Times, Thursday 22nd October 1937, where Charlotte Wolff presented 'The Hands of Chimpanzees’, with Alan Best (who, it seemed, worked with Julian Huxley and was a curator at the Zoo), part of the Experiments in Science series. Chimpanzees lent by the London Zoological Society.
Others programmes in the series include:
7 October 1937 | Professor Mary Waller will show some of the unique properties of solid carbon dioxide
4 November 1937 | Cyril Burt, D.Sc , Professor of Psychology, University College, London, demonstrates the tests which have been devised to estimate intelligence and vocational aptitudes
16 December 1937 | Reconstructing the Past. A demonstration conducted by Margot Eates, of the Institute of Archaeology
Images of these Chimpanzees’ hands appear as prints throughout Wolff’s work.
Charlotte Wolff on Television Demonstration Film from 1937. She reads the hands of Jasmine Bligh, who was a presenter at the time. Her accent is so clipped, I have watched it over and over again
Eva Weissweiler, in her book about Dora Kellner, mentions how Max Pollak was seen by Freud. He suffered from insomnia, due to a ticking clock, and so, rather than remove the clock, his mother sought treatment for him, thinking it would toughen him up. (Max also have also nervous conditions). I tracked from the source and there it was: a conversation between Max Pollak and Kurt Eissler, the founder of the Freud Archive what is now at the Library of Congress (the one about which Janet Malcohm writes that book). The transcript can be found here. At first I was skeptical, that it might have been another Max Pollak, but he refers to his mother as a Loew-Beer, which she was. It contains other details too: that he was premature as a baby, that he played the piano, that he had a talent for Maths and Greek, that he spent time in a sanatorium, that he had spots. It is quite a remarkable document that I want to think more about.
in the heat of the evening, I watched Hat, Coat and Glove, a 1934 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Worthington Miner. Francis Faragoh adapted it from the original play by Wilhelm Speyer, who appears on the diagram from Helen Grund. In the film, fashion becomes exhibit in a count room (Grund’s influence perhaps); as does the hand (Lotte Wolff’s perhaps)
Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings and Anne Marie Hennings are all buried at Saint Abbondio cemetery in Switzerland
late picture of Asja Lācis in Riga apartment
in this article Moses Marx talks about The Astrological Works of Abraham ibn Ezra, which has a diagram on the first page, that might be of interest
At one point, Walter Benjamin and Helen Grund planned to travel together through Brandenburg by car (with her driving), collaborating on a series of pieces for the Frankfurter Zeitung. The plan was never realized.
I found this magazine on eBay, from 1978, with an interview with Charlotte Wolff inside, in Dutch, about lesbianism and bisexuality (as far as I can tell)