..on the shelf in Cologne

Some of the books on the shelf in Cologne, largely taken from Rudolf and Anne's house

Inside A's diary - Easter card 1946. A bad translation of the poem: The mole lies in his hole and hears the lark's song. He says: how pointless it is to fly and to sing

Four loose rough pages from May 1945; a hasty jotting down of events and places.

Cover

Inside pages. Published 1941.

Published in 1940.

On the bookshelf in Cologne

Cover of the Koldemanz church book, containing photos and a 1945 work list, that I discovered in my grandparents' book shelf in 1997. Photographed in 2005 at my aunt's house. (What date should I choose? 1824? 1997? 2005?)

The title pages of the Koldemanz hymn book from 1824

Hymns and readings....

Handwritten inscription in the Koldemanz hymn book

Berlin, May 1824...

"The Ghost says to rest from your work, rest from your work, hallelujah..."

Cover of book proclaiming that the regions of Alsace and Rothringen (?) are forever German. Present to A from her first husband, 1943

It ends: In Greater Germany we will no longer have the problem of Alsace.

Present to A from 1943...

"Fire and Colour" - 1940s book on Rudolf's shelf

"Fire and Colour" - 1940s book on Rudolf's shelf. It says: War demands truth/the outermost, last/deepest truth/It never acts 'as if'/How it appears to be to you

"Fire and Colour" - 1940s book on Rudolf's shelf. It says: "War and Art as Idea"