198 - Rolf Dieter Brinkmann - Three Letters and a Photograph. 1962–1964

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann - Three Letters and a Photograph. 1962–1964 Announcement time: approx. 1:54 p.m. (schedule subject to change) All addressed to Ralf-Rainer Rygulla. - Hartmut Sander (1942–2024, Brinkmann’s childhood friend; worked with him as a bookseller at Witsch in Cologne, later a printer and publisher): 1st letter from Finland, postmark Dec. 11, 1962: Please forward letters to various recipients. “Brinkmann will be able to explain the reason for this unusual request to you. [...] On January 7, 1963, the date I come of age, the ‘duty of confidentiality’ will end.” - 2. Handwritten postcard, date illegible. “Please give this card to your girlfriend, with whom I hope you’ll be coming to my party in Remscheid [...] on October 27. [...] Brinckmann will be there, too.” - Helmut Pieper (a fellow bookseller, later an elementary school teacher, who sublet a room from Brinkmann at Engelbergstraße 65 in Cologne in 1963–64 and remained part of the poet’s closest circle of friends until the poet’s death in 1975): 3. Handwritten letter. August 24, 1963, three sheets, six pages. Detailed account of Brinkmann and his living situation. Brinkmann immortalized his friend in the character of Gerald in his novel *Keiner weiß mehr*. - 4. Original photograph: Helmut Pieper with Maleen Brinkmann and their son Robert (born 1964). - Included: Four publications from Oberbaumpresse, which was founded in 1966 by Hartmut Sander and Martin Dürschlag. Small-format original brochures (Black Power, Che Guevara, Letter to OSPAAL, China’s Cultural Revolution, Red Guard, among others).