28. Mai 1933 Sonntag Wechselnd.

Furtwänglers Rede in der N. Fr. Presse – macht guten Eindruck. 1 — Grenzsperre Deutschland – Oesterreich! — An Guttmann (K. expreß): kommen morgen. — An Pollak (K.): Wiedersehen erst im Herbst. — ¼6–7h im Garten des Café Aspang. — Die Rf.-Sendungen werden immer schlechter, je mehr sie „Stimmen der Heimat[“] bringen. 2

© Transcription Marko Deisinger.

May 28, 1933, Sunday, changeable.

Furtwängler’s speech printed in the Neue freie Presse – makes a good impression. 1 — Closing of the border between Germany and Austria! — To Guttmann (express postcard): we shall come tomorrow. — To Pollak (postcard): we shall not see each other before the fall. — From 5:15 to 7 o’clock, in the garden of the Café Aspang. — The radio broadcasts get worse and worse, the more they program "voices of the homeland." 2

© Translation William Drabkin.

28. Mai 1933 Sonntag Wechselnd.

Furtwänglers Rede in der N. Fr. Presse – macht guten Eindruck. 1 — Grenzsperre Deutschland – Oesterreich! — An Guttmann (K. expreß): kommen morgen. — An Pollak (K.): Wiedersehen erst im Herbst. — ¼6–7h im Garten des Café Aspang. — Die Rf.-Sendungen werden immer schlechter, je mehr sie „Stimmen der Heimat[“] bringen. 2

© Transcription Marko Deisinger.

May 28, 1933, Sunday, changeable.

Furtwängler’s speech printed in the Neue freie Presse – makes a good impression. 1 — Closing of the border between Germany and Austria! — To Guttmann (express postcard): we shall come tomorrow. — To Pollak (postcard): we shall not see each other before the fall. — From 5:15 to 7 o’clock, in the garden of the Café Aspang. — The radio broadcasts get worse and worse, the more they program "voices of the homeland." 2

© Translation William Drabkin.

Footnotes

1 Wilhelm Furtwängler, "Johannes Brahms. Vortrag, gehalten anläßlich des Brahms-Festes in Wien am 16. May 1933," Neue freie Presse, No. 24679, May 28, 1933, morning edition, p. 9, continued on May 31 (Neue freie Presse, No. 24682, morning edition, p. 10); a clipping is preserved in Schenker's Nachlass as OC B/453. http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&datum=19330528&seite=9&zoom=33 http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&datum=19330531&seite=10&zoom=33

2 According to the radio listings in the Neue freie Presse, a program entitled "Homeland Austria," broadcast from 8 to 10:15 in the evening, included Austrian folk songs and a Fantasy for Large Orchestra, by Lothar Riedinger, on popular melodies by native masters.