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NOTE: Apart from Original Findings such as the 1904/5 "Fanny Essler" Poems, or early Correspondence by/about Greve referring to FrL, ALL documents in the UMA Collections were obtained either by exchange or for scholarly publication purposes from the single most important FrL Collection, Literary Manuscripts, University of Maryland. See Literary Curator Dr. Beth Alvarez' excellent GUIDE for provenance & processing details, and her August 2010 Announcment about digitizing this Collection. About Else Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven: a "Historical Note" by Dr. Beth Alvarez, ©2004 Source: UMaryland EAD Finding Aid, The Papers of Else von Freytag-Loringhoven University of Maryland Archives, Literary Manuscripts UMd FrL Collection (5 Boxes, adapted from the Umd GUIDE) FrL in the UWisconsin Little Review Collection (2 Fds.) Detailed BISON Records for various Else Freytag-Loringhoven Resources, including: Else's Autobiography, mss & typescript, Copies exchanged with the University of Maryland in 1991 Else's Autobiography, Book ed. by Spettigue & Hjartarson, 1994: Baroness Elsa (incl. some corr.) Video Interview about Else & Greve, 1902/3-1909/10 [1994] about Else & Greve's 1904/5 'Fanny Essler' poems, Else's related German poems in the UMaryland Collections (Schalk & Du), the couple's Sparta, Kentucky, year in 1910/11, and FrL as the unacknowledged model for Grove's anti-heroine Clara Vogel in his first Canadian novel Settlers of the Marsh (1925, UMA, G. H. Wade copy,with Dustjacket ill.) Irene Gammel's Biography of Else von Freytag-Loringhoven, MIT, 2002. Two German editions, 2003 & 2005, the latter doubling as FrL Exhibition Catalogue at the Literaturhaus Berlin, March-May 2005 dada Americano (1970) facsim. portfolio by Arturo Schwarz; includes: Man Ray's & Duchamp's short-lived "journal" New York Dada, 1921, with FrL 2 photos Francis Naumann Gallery's Exhibition Catalog, NY, 2002 Various OTHER related Books, Documents or Resources, including dada exhibitions, Greve's German novels about her and the Stefan George Circle, Endell, Hardt, Schmitz; Man Ray, Duchamp, The Little Review (TLR), Djuna Barnes, etc. E-Documents by/about Else v. Freytag-Loringhoven Gide's 1904 "Conversation": Greve's appended Oct. 1904 LETTER to Gide addresses Else & the couple's multi-layered 'Fanny Essler' Plans in poems & prose Else in Dachau, May 1900 (Registration facsim., detail; AB excerpts) Else at Dr. Gmelin's Sanatorium in Boldixum, near Wyk auf Föhr, Oct./Nov. 1902 (Postcard; AB excerpts) Else as translator of Flaubert's Correspondence? FrL (in her autobiography) & Greve (to Gide) say she did NOT translate French texts! (title-page, 1904/5; FPG Corr. excerpt; FrL Note, UMd) Else contacts Gide in 1921: Account by 'La Petite Dame' (text excerpt) Else arrested in Pittsburgh in September 1910 (facsim. of NYT Notice, e-Text, & commentary] Else coverage in the NY Times, Dec. 5, 1915 (Headline; Facsim.) Power-Point Lectures about FrL & FPG: "FPG (Greve/Grove)'s Obsession with Else Ploetz, Endell, Greve, & Freytag-Loringhoven." [Power-Point Production, 56 slides, ©Dec2003] Presented for the UW German-Canadian Studies Program at the University of Winnipeg Faculty Club, Dec. 4, 2003 "Else Ploetz meets August Endell in Munich/Dachau, 1900." -- LCMND Conference, Minot, N.D., October 2005. "Else Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven in Germany, New York, & Paris, & her importance to the UM's FPG (Greve/Grove) Collections." -- Invited Lecture for Professor M. Baker's Art History Class, Oct. 2005. Exhibitions FrL Exhibition at the Literatur Haus in Berlin, March to May, 2005: website info [Gisi's impressions of this event & the LitHaus Berlin exhib. of March 2005 coming soon] Berlin LitHaus FrL Exhibition: adapted for the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, Dec. 2005 to Jan 2006 website info FrL Exhibition in Zürich's Cabaret Voltaire, 2005/6 Gisi Baronin Freytag-Loringhoven's Impressions, Dada Exhibition in Paris, 2005 Poster with FrL's name in small, but central letters NYT review of a 2006 dada exhibition including FrL at Francis Naumann's Gallery e-Texts by/about Else von Freytag-Loringhoven Poems about or References to German Contemporaries: Marcus Behmer. -- August Endell. -- Leo Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven Above all: FPG (Felix Paul Greve), her most important lover & second husband Ernst Hardt. -- Melchior Lechter. -- Oskar A. H. & Richard Schmitz. -- Karl Wolfskehl. Satirical Poem about Ernst Hardt [set in Berlin, ca. 1896-98] Satirical Poem about August Endell [set in Munich, ca. 1900] "Fanny Essler's" Seven Poems 1904/5 100th Anniversary e-Edition in German & English: Else & F. P. Greve in Berlin, Wyk auf Föhr, & Palermo, 1902/3 Gedichte/Poems [I & II] (Freistatt, Aug 1904: "Tunis") Drei Sonette: ein Porträt / Three Sonnets: a Portrait [III, IV, V] (Freistatt, Oct 1904) Gedichte/Poems [VI & VII] (Freistatt, Mar 1905: "Husum") NOTE: This interesting poetry cycle of seven poems was published by FPG (Greve/Grove) & Else von Freytag-Loringhoven (FrL, divorced Endell at the time) under their joint pseudonym "Fanny Essler" in the journal Die Freistatt in 1904/5. On March 25, 2005, on occasion of the 100th Anniversary of their first publication, these poems were made available as e-texts with parallel English translations by Gaby Divay & Jan Horner, UM Libraries. Greve is the central topic of these poems. See a facsimile of the central three sonnets describing, in Petrarchan fashion, his brutal hands, cold eyes, & lying mouth. Curiously, Grove's autobiographical novel A Search for America (1927, e-Ed. 2000 & 2005) echoes the second of these attributes, FPG's icy-cold stare. Felix Paul Greve, the subject of "Fanny Essler's" 1904/5 Poems, is also addressed in many Freytag-Loringhoven poems in the University of Maryland, College Park, Collection. "FPG" abandoned her in "the wilderness" of Sparta, Kentucky, in 1911. Several of her German poems bear a direct relation to this early poetry cycle, notably, the central sonnet"Portrait" of FPG [FrL's "Herbst"], and the final "Husum" snow poem [FrL's "Du"]. Her poem "Schalk" furthermore incorporates FPG's 1907 poem "Erster Sturm" which also exists among Grove's papers. For biographical information about the 'Fanny Essler' poems, the novel Fanny Essler (1905), & the use of the name "Else Greve" for certain Flaubert translations, see Greve's 17.10.1904 confessional letter to André Gide, appended to the latter's e-"Conversation avec un Allemand" in which FrL is addressed as well: Greve is buying Henna for her in Paris. In her revealing Autobiography (AB, UMaryland), she mentions that she started dying her hair in Palermo in mid-1903, while Greve was serving a prison-term for fraud in Bonn. All these sources are available on this dedicated FPG & FrL Website, either separate pages or as part of FPG's much expanded 2007 e-Poetry edition [originally published in Dec. 1993, Cover ill.]. See also: Introduction to FPG's poetry edition (1993, e-Ed. 2006, 61 p.) Article about the 1904/5 'Fanny Essler' complex (poems & novel) FrL Poems or Correspondence about American Contemporaries: Berenice Abbott Djuna Barnes George Biddle Marcel Duchamp Jane Heap Man Ray William Carlos Williams ... & many others International E-Resources about Else von Freytag-Loringhoven Gallery of Images & Documents Francis Naumann's Collection, New York: Cover of the NY April 2002 FrL Exhibition Catalogue Back-Cover of the NY April 2002 FrL Exhibition Catalogue FrL by Theresa Bernstein, 1917: from the NY 2002 FrL Exhibition Catalogue FrL Postcard announcing the German version of Irene Gammel's FrL Biography, 2003 FrL Dachau 1900: Registration Document (Detail) Dr. Gmelins Sanatorium, 1902: Boldixum, near Wyk auf Föhr FrL in exotic costume, NY, ca. 1920: photo adapted from the LC Bain Collection FrL & Claude McKay in exotic costume, NY, ca. 1920: photo from the LC Bain Collection "Fanny Essler" Sonnets about FPG, 1904 Fanny Elssler Lithograph, 1840 in Broom, 1922 FrL's poem "Circle" with oblong ill., in Broom, 1923 FrL's poem "Schalk" about FPG, ca. 1923 using EYE, HAND, & MOUTH in 1904 Sonnets & the Fall allegory in FPG's pet poem "Erster Sturm" (1907 & ca. 1930): parallel German texts Sparta, KY, 1986: Map [ONLY ref. on FrL's "Schalk"] FrL as letter "A" in Man Ray's pun, 1921

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