{"id":2305,"date":"2012-04-24T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/hans-wolfgang-schwerin-click-on-images-above-for\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:50:56","slug":"hans-wolfgang-schwerin-click-on-images-above-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/hans-wolfgang-schwerin-click-on-images-above-for\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2305 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/hans-wolfgang-schwerin-click-on-images-above-for\/attachment\/2306\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m305ciCJgK1r3qmd1o1_r2_1280-150x150.jpg\" 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\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/hans-wolfgang-schwerin-click-on-images-above-for\/attachment\/2311\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m305ciCJgK1r3qmd1o6_r2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/hans-wolfgang-schwerin-click-on-images-above-for\/attachment\/2312\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m305ciCJgK1r3qmd1o7_r2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/hans-wolfgang-schwerin-click-on-images-above-for\/attachment\/2313\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m305ciCJgK1r3qmd1o8_r2_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/hans-wolfgang-schwerin-click-on-images-above-for\/attachment\/2314\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m305ciCJgK1r3qmd1o10_r2_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/hans-wolfgang-schwerin-click-on-images-above-for\/attachment\/2315\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m305ciCJgK1r3qmd1o12_r2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Hans Wolfgang Schwerin.\u00a0<\/strong>Click on images above for enlarged views.\u00a0<em>Pictures of the poet; a copy of his published volume of poetry (<\/em>Irdische Heimat<em>); a poem from this volume; the poet&rsquo;s dedication of the book to the Leo Baeck Institute; a binder that contains his personal notes\/drafts; a typewritten poem from that binder; the cover of the\u00a0<\/em>Mass und Werte<em>\u00a0issue in which his work appeared; a copy of his poem in the journal;\u00a0<\/em><em>a letter that he received from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langston_Hughes\" target=\"_blank\">Langston Hughes<\/a> in November of 1942 (complete with Hughes&rsquo;s signature).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hans Wolfgang Schwerin\u00a0was born in Breslau in 1906. His mother was a relation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Ehrlich\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Ehrlich<\/a>. He earned a law degree from Universit\u00e4t Breslau in 1937 and immigrated to the United States in the following decade with his parents and younger sibling, G\u00fcnther. Schwerin\u2019s vocation was writing; throughout his life, Hans Schwerin maintained relationships with literary figures and wrote poetry and works for live theatre. In 1939, a volume of his poetry, <em>Irdische Heimat<\/em>, was published under the pen name Wolfgang H. Syland. A theatre work, <em>Vorstellung in drei Akten<\/em>, was published in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>We found some of Schwerin&rsquo;s personal papers in a collection housed here at the Center. Angela Lawrence, a Processing Archivist, notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am processing a collection in which a family member (Hans Wolfgang Schwerin) had a volume of poetry published. The Leo Baeck Institute library has a couple of copies of this volume. [Syland, Wolfgang H. Irdische Heimat: Gedichte. Bern: A. Francke A.G., 1939.]<\/p>\n<p>One of the poems from that volume, \u201cDer Fluch\u201d, was also printed in an literary journal and in a couple of newspapers: [Schwerin, H.W. \u201cDer Fluch.\u201d Mass und Wert 3, no. 5\/6 (September &#8211; November 1940): 636.]<\/p>\n<p>The collection also contains a couple of notebooks of poetry, sketches and drafts by Hans. All of these works are in German.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Mass und Werte<\/em>, the journal pictured and mentioned above, was published in 1940\u00a0and edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Mann\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Mann<\/a>\u00a0(who is perhaps best known in the U.S. for his novel <em>Death in Venice<\/em>). &ldquo;Mass und Wert&rdquo; means &ldquo;Measure and Value.&rdquo; \u00a0It was a publication for German authors in exile, the &ldquo;Free German Press.&rdquo; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by Angela Lawrence, Center for Jewish History, and Michael Simonson, Leo Baeck Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Wolfgang Schwerin.\u00a0Click on images above for enlarged views.\u00a0Pictures of the poet; a copy of his published volume of poetry (Irdische Heimat); a poem from this volume; the poet&rsquo;s dedication of the book to the Leo Baeck Institute; a binder that contains his personal notes\/drafts; a typewritten poem from that binder; the cover of the\u00a0Mass und Werte\u00a0issue in which his work appeared; a copy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,962,38],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-leo-baeck-institute-collections","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-out-of-the-archives","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}