{"id":3442,"date":"2025-10-21T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:13:09","slug":"lesung-pali-meller-papierkuesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/lesung-pali-meller-papierkuesse\/","title":{"rendered":"READING
Pali Meller: \u201ePapierk\u00fcsse\u201c (Paper Kisses)"},"content":{"rendered":"

an event in cooperation with the Liszt-Institut, Ungarisches Kulturzentrum Stuttgart
\nand the Israelitische Religionsgemeinschaft Wu\u0308rttembergs<\/span><\/strong>
\nas part of the <\/strong>J\u00fcdische Kulturwochen Stuttgart 2025<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Klett-Cotta<\/h6>\n

+++++ The event will be held in German. +++++<\/p>\n

Thursday, 13 November, 7 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading
\nPali Meller: \u201ePapierk\u00fcsse. Briefe eines j\u00fcdischen Vaters aus der Haft 1942\/43\u201c
\n(\u201ePaper Kisses: Letters from a Jewish Father in Prison, 1942\/43\u201c)<\/h4>\n

Introduction by Anja Kr\u00e4mer<\/strong>, Director of the Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House
\nTexts read by Tobias Keil<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pali Meller (1902\u20131943) was a Hungarian architect. As a construction manager, he was involved in the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart in 1927.<\/strong> Immediately after completing his studies, he began working in the office of Dutch architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud in Rotterdam. When Oud was commissioned to design five terraced houses for the famous Stuttgart Werkbund exhibition \u2018Die Wohnung\u2019 (The Apartment), he sent Meller to the site. These houses can still be seen today in the Weissenhofsiedlung.<\/p>\n

In 1930, Pali Meller moved to Berlin and started a family with the dancer Petronella Colpa. She died in an accident in 1935, after which Meller raised his two children alone. Although he was of Jewish descent, he initially remained unmolested even after the National Socialists came to power. In 1942, he was denounced and sentenced to six years in prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From prison, he wrote 24 letters to his children Paul and Barbara.<\/strong> In 2012, they were published by Klett-Cotta under the title \u201ePapierk\u00fcsse\u201c <\/strong> (\u201ePaper Kisses\u201c). With wordplay and great affection, Meller attempts to fulfil his role as a father from afar. He died of tuberculosis in prison in 1943.<\/p>\n

In the reading, the humorous and heart-wrenching letters from prison are supplemented by several letters from the construction period of the Weissenhofsiedlung.<\/p>\n

Admission free<\/strong><\/p>\n

We kindly request registration<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Location
\n<\/strong>Liszt-Institut, Ungarisches Kulturzentrum Stuttgart
\nChristophstra\u00dfe 7
\n70178 Stuttgart<\/p>\n

Buchcover \u00a9 Klett-Cotta Verlag<\/h6>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Anja<\/p>\n

Anja Kr\u00e4mer<\/strong> has been director of the Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House since 2006. She studied art history, German studies and monument preservation in Stuttgart and Bamberg and worked as a freelance architectural historian for many years before joining the Weissenhof Museum.<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

\"Tobias<\/p>\n

Tobias Keil<\/strong> studied speech and singing at the HMDK Stuttgart and worked as an opera singer at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Leipzig Opera, among others. For many years, he has been involved in artistic, educational and therapeutic work.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veranstaltung"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weissenhofmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}