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Inventory created by
Marion Munzer
June 1983
M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives
University Libraries / University at Albany / State University of New York
1400 Washington Avenue / Albany, New York 12222 / (518) 437-3935
ACQUISITION: All items in this manuscript group were donated to the University Libraries, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, by Wilbur Broms, Executor for the estates of Greta Hartwig Manschinger and Kurt Manschinger on March 13, 1983. Additional materials were added to the collection by Wilbur Broms in March 2006.
ACCESS: Access to these records is unrestricted.
COPYRIGHT: The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives will provide information about copyright owners and other restrictions, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the researcher. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Greta Hartwig Manschinger (1899–1971), writer and librettist for works composed by Kurt Manschinger ( aka Ashley Vernon). Manschinger lived in New York City.
The collection includes correspondence, 1945-1968; manuscript of Greta's unfinished autobiographical novel "Brno-New York" and hand-corrected typescripts and manuscripts of novel sketches, opera librettos (English translations from German), songs, short stories, children's literature, advertising and media sketches, and critical reviews, 1935-1970; personal family papers of Kurt and Greta Manschinger; scores and sheet music by Kurt and Greta; audio tapes of performances; index card files of Manschinger music contacts; Manschinger Music Trust files.
(Unless otherwise noted, by Greta Hartwig.)
I. Lyrics-Misc. (Translations-adaptations)
G.H. Programs: Ferdinand Raimund
Librettos (Manschinger): Der Talisiman
Librettos (Manschinger): Ferdinand Raimund Reier
G.H. Lyrics: Translations, Misc. songs
Greta Hartwig:Lyrics-misc.: Original lyrics by others
novels: sketches
II. Playlets with Music
Reviews: Orchestra & Instrumental Composites
Plays with Music: An American in Vienna (2 copies & notes)
III. Dance Playlets
Dance Playlet: the Organ - Grinder's Little Helper (3 copies)
Dance Play: Adolescence - A Ballet Scenario (2 copies & notes)
Dance Play : Is This Trip Necessary 1st version (2 copies & parts)
Dance Play: Is This Trip Necessary 2nd version (1 copy)
IV. Children's Materials
Children: Bernardo the King, a play for children
Children: Pretty, A Children's Story
Children: The Singing and Springing Little Lark, based on a German Fairy Tale
V. Radio & TV Sketches
Radio & TV: Commercial Jingles
Radio & TV: Carol, Gregory and a Piano (4 copies)
Radio & TV: The Fantastic Concert radio version (6 copies)
TV Version - (3 copies; 1 German)
VI. Sketches & Skits
Skit: Buying a Pair of Shoes (2 copies English)
Skit: Chat Across the Fence for Two Women (3 copies English)
Skit: Doctor, Doctor (music opt. 4 copies)
Skit: Eve in Paradise (2 copies)
Skit: Grease Paint (1 copy English)
Skit: Hello Ben, How Are You for Two Men (1 copy English)
Skit: The Impresario Playlet (Abbreviated version 2 copies English)
Skit: I Never Want To See Him Again Monologue (2 copies English)
Skit: Life of a Salesman (10 copies)
Skit: Who Was Murdered (4 copies)
Skit: Will Webster Propose (Skit) (14 copies English)
Sketches: First Drafts and Incomplete
Children: Playlets
Man in Her Life by Erika Korpner (correspondence and Receipt only)
"King David" & "Warning" by Heinrich Weine, tr. By Mimi Grossberg
Letters to Greta from father (in German)
Libretto: The Red and the Black (3 copies)
Short Story: Little Guest from Europe (2 copies English)
VII. Librettos: Original
Libretto: Eternally Yours (2 copies English)
Libretto: April in Vienna (4 copies English)
VIII. Librettos: tr Manschinger
Libretto: The God & the Bayraders (from Goethe) (4 copies English)
IX. Librettos/Translations
A Husband at the Door
Libretto: The Herebefore (4 copies English)
Libretto: In the Factory (3 copies English)
Libretto: Temptations (2 copies English 1 synopsis)
Libretto (trans.): Gluck: Don Juan (2 synopsis)
Libretto (trans.): Mozart: Bastien & Bastienne (2 copies)
Libretto (trans.): Cimarosa: The Secret Marriage (3 copies & notes)
Libretto (trans.): Haydn: The Apothecary (16 copies)
Novel: Rendezvous in Manhattan Sketches & Publication
Girrgerette (2nd version 3rd copy)
Girrgerette
X. Short Stories
Short Stories: w/Helda Sidney
Short Stories: w/collaborators (Else Frey-Ina Thal)
Short Stories: Misc.
Short Stories: Original
Short Story: Autopsy of a Love Affair (2 copies English)
Short Story: Dottie & Larry (3 stories 1 copy each in German)
Short Story: Professor van Dyn (2 copies English)
Short Story: Punishment & Crime (English 1 original version, 5 revised version)
Short Story: Collection of Unpublished Stories (German)
XI. Publicity
Publicity: Obituaries
Publicity: Literary Works
Publicity: Newspaper clips (English)
Publicity: Newspaper clips (German)
Publicity: Photographs
Publicity: Reviews (English)
Publicity: Reviews (German)
XII. Programs
Programs: Dance
Programs: Kleinkunst-Lieder
Programs: Lectures & Lecture Recitals
Programs: Librettos (performances of GHM trans.)
Programs: One Woman Shows
Programs: Schools (NY College of Music; Mannes; Manhattan; Juilliard)
Programs: Shakespeare
Programs: Stage Director
Programs: Variety (with other performers and assisting artists)
Teaching: Stage Director
Teaching: Misc. Materials
Teaching: Adirondack Center for Cultural and Creative Arts
Teaching: Auditions
XIII. Teaching (Institutions)
Teaching: Cornell Academy of Musical & Dramatic Arts
` Teaching: Juilliard School
Teaching: New York Ballet & Drama Center
Teaching: New York College of Music
Teaching: Ramblerny
XIV. Novels
Novel: Brno-New York (Biographical unfinished)
Novel: DieTodesaugen (The Demon) (with Paul Frederickson) (1 copy German)
Novel: I Must Not Disturb My Husband (English 1 copy)
Novel: Didi Fahrt nach Amerika (German 3 copies; English ???only)
Lecture-Recital: Deutache Lyrik von Goethe bis Heute
XV. Special Material:
Special Material: Non-Original
Special Material: Commissioned Sold
Special Material: Wienes Klein-Kunstplatte (plans for recording project)
XVI. Lecture-Recitals
Lecture-Recital: Vienna Miniature Shows
One-Woman Shows: Austrian Inst.
One-Woman Shows: Schwert au Blume
One-Woman Show: Misc.
XVII. Stage Director
papers but no folders
XIX. Associates
Associates: Fr. Brainin
Associates: Wilbur Broms
Associates: Irene Paulson
Associates: Lili Korrber (Grave)
Associates: Edith Lenar Horowitz
Associates: Mimi Grossberg
Associates: Mimi Grossberg
Special material: Knitivits
Song Intros.
Fragments
Lecture-Recitals: Heine
Lecture-Recitals: Goethe
XX. [binders, miscellaneous]
Poems, translations & fillers M-S
I-L
RICS A-H
One-Woman Shows: Complete Part I
One-Woman Shows: Complete Part II
One-Woman Shows: Complete Part III
Novel: Weekend mit Monika (German 3 copies)
Legal Document, ito, Greta
Greta's poems for commercial advertising (1935-37 in German)
Poems, aphorisms and anecdotes in German and English
Records of students payments for lessons
Misc. (German) Phila.. Radio interview Nestroy "Talisman"
Program
Greta's Poems
Poetry Original
One-Woman Show: Literary Tea "Sie suchen sine Koechin"
Greta's unemployment Insurance-Social Security-Journal, August 1966-Also manila file folder of personal & family letters of interest on Greta's life.
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