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[Postcard]
Höhenried,
Post Bernried am Starnbergersee,
bei Baron Wendland
13 June 1919
Dear Professor,
It already seems ages to me since I last wrote to you, and indeed I think it probable that my last scribble never reached its destination, for I sent it off immediately after the troublous times122 when there was no post here. I only met your son on the one occasion about which I wrote, at Rilke's,* but I ran into him once after that at a horribly bad theatrical performance, from which we fled home on the same tram. I shall scarcely be able to sit down to write a proper letter until I am quietly back in Göttingen again. But it has been a wonderful time for me123 despite everything which has happened in these weeks. At the moment I am chiefly engaged in rearing a little fawn on the bottle.
Meanwhile warmest greetings, from your
Lou Andreas
On 7 April 1919 a Soviet Republic was proclaimed in Munich, which came to an end after bloody fighting at the beginning of May. All communications were cut off for a considerable period. Lou A.-S. notes in her diary for 23 April: ‘With Rainer from soon after lunch until the evening’ Later Ernst Freud was there … during the night alarm bells and shooting.
Lou A.-S. was with Rilke in Munich from 26 March until 2 June. On the latter date she wrote, reminiscently, to him: ‘You inspired me with life, and I needed it more urgently than you realize.’ Soon afterwards Rilke left for Switzerland. This was their last meeting.
* On 23 April. Lou A.-S. Journal note.