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OJ 8/5, [18] - Handwritten picture postcard from Schenker to Violin, dated September 1, 1933

{recto}
[Absender:] ⇧ Schenker
Mönichkirchen/Wechsel
Hotel [name overstamped (see below)]

[An:] ⇧ Prof. M. Violin
bei [illeg. word] Dr Frau Violin
Wien VI
Stumpergasse 67

[postmark:] || MÖNICHKIRCHEN | [illeg] IX. 33. 11. | a ||
[stamp:]|| MÖNICHKIRCHEN | WINTERSPORTPLATZ | 1000m SEEHÖHE ||

1. IX. 33

Fl! 1

Auf der Heimreise 2 – unsere Strecke ist die Aspangbahn – machen wir hier Halt, um etwas Höhenluft einzupumpen u. Vorschau zu halten. Doch muß ich schon sagen, dieser vielgepriesener Ort entspricht unseren Bedürfnissen u. Erwartungen in gar nichts

Sofort nach meiner Ankunft melde ich mich.


Dir u. den deinigen beste Grüße von uns Beiden
Dein
[signed:] H

{verso}
[Landscape photograph with caption: „Höhenluftkurort Mönichkirchen am Wechsel N.Ö. 1000 m. Seehöhe“]

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2012
{recto}
[From:] ⇧ Schenker
Mönichkirchen/Wechsel
Hotel [name overstamped (see below)]

[To:] ⇧ Prof. M. Violin
c/o Dr. Frau Violin
Vienna VI
Stumpergasse 67

[postmark:] || MÖNICHKIRCHEN | [illeg] IX. 33. 11. | a ||
[stamp:]|| MÖNICHKIRCHEN | WINTERSPORT RESORT | 1000m ABOVE SEA LEVEL ||

September 1, 1933

Floriz, 1

On the trip home 2 – we’re taking the Aspang train line – we are stopping here in order to pump high-altitude air into our lungs and have a look around. But I must tell you immediately that this much-vaunted place does not correspond to our needs or expectations in any way.

As soon as I return, I shall get in touch.


To you and your family, best wishes from the two of us,
Your
[signed:] H.

{verso}
[Landscape photograph with caption: “High-altitude health resort Mönichkirchen am Wechsel, Lower Austria, 1000 meters above sea level.”]

© Translation William Drabkin, 2016
{recto}
[Absender:] ⇧ Schenker
Mönichkirchen/Wechsel
Hotel [name overstamped (see below)]

[An:] ⇧ Prof. M. Violin
bei [illeg. word] Dr Frau Violin
Wien VI
Stumpergasse 67

[postmark:] || MÖNICHKIRCHEN | [illeg] IX. 33. 11. | a ||
[stamp:]|| MÖNICHKIRCHEN | WINTERSPORTPLATZ | 1000m SEEHÖHE ||

1. IX. 33

Fl! 1

Auf der Heimreise 2 – unsere Strecke ist die Aspangbahn – machen wir hier Halt, um etwas Höhenluft einzupumpen u. Vorschau zu halten. Doch muß ich schon sagen, dieser vielgepriesener Ort entspricht unseren Bedürfnissen u. Erwartungen in gar nichts

Sofort nach meiner Ankunft melde ich mich.


Dir u. den deinigen beste Grüße von uns Beiden
Dein
[signed:] H

{verso}
[Landscape photograph with caption: „Höhenluftkurort Mönichkirchen am Wechsel N.Ö. 1000 m. Seehöhe“]

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2012
{recto}
[From:] ⇧ Schenker
Mönichkirchen/Wechsel
Hotel [name overstamped (see below)]

[To:] ⇧ Prof. M. Violin
c/o Dr. Frau Violin
Vienna VI
Stumpergasse 67

[postmark:] || MÖNICHKIRCHEN | [illeg] IX. 33. 11. | a ||
[stamp:]|| MÖNICHKIRCHEN | WINTERSPORT RESORT | 1000m ABOVE SEA LEVEL ||

September 1, 1933

Floriz, 1

On the trip home 2 – we’re taking the Aspang train line – we are stopping here in order to pump high-altitude air into our lungs and have a look around. But I must tell you immediately that this much-vaunted place does not correspond to our needs or expectations in any way.

As soon as I return, I shall get in touch.


To you and your family, best wishes from the two of us,
Your
[signed:] H.

{verso}
[Landscape photograph with caption: “High-altitude health resort Mönichkirchen am Wechsel, Lower Austria, 1000 meters above sea level.”]

© Translation William Drabkin, 2016

Footnotes

1 Writing of this postcard is not recorded in Schenker's diary.

2 From Reigersberg Castle, Ilz, in Styria, where the Schenkers had been since c. June 20. Schenker wrote again to Violin (postcard not surviving) on September 8: “An Floriz (K.): kommen am 12., bitte zunächst ihn, dann alle!” (“To Floriz (postcard): we are returning on the 12th, I shall get in touch with him first, then everyone else!”). The Schenkers arrived in Vienna on the afternoon of September 12.