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FROM FOUNDED UNTIL 1929

Historical! From the beginning.
Overall 101 events.

   Program 1921-22

  • Privy Councellor Dr. A. Stamm: About education

  • Painter Otto Pippel invitation to his studio

  • Sculptor H. Horzetzki:
    Michelangelo's life and his artistic work

  • Captain retired D. Vinzenz Mandl: Nikolaus Lenau

  • Medical Councilor Dr. Liver: eating, drinking and metabolism

  • Dr. W. Külbel: 
    Doubt, inhibition and promotion in human life

  • Dir. R. Gabler: The kiss

  • Obering. Boecklen: Trip to Brazil in 1914

  • Church councilor Trenkle:
    Old stories from the Würmtal

  • Gertrud Schallmeyer: Necessity and usefulness [...]

  • Privy Councilor Dr. A tribe:

  • Freedom of will and possibility of education

  • Musical evening with the following Contributors: Stamm, Hippéli, Pippel and others

Ansicht of Cafe Hacker A.D. 1928

Source: Society archives

   Program 1922-23

  • Privy Councilor Dr. from Lumm: “Poor Germany” (poetry)

  • Dr. Pohl: The scientific views of the ancients and their relationships to modern times

  • Director Hermann Lehmann: Daily life in Italy

  • Architect Putlitz: The wooden house

  • Captain retired D.V. Mandl: Franz Liszt

  • Director R. Gabler: Humor, wit and satire

  • Privy Councilor Dr. A tribe: About music appreciation and music criticism

  • Sculptor H. Horzetzki: Relationship of fine art to nature

  • Senior postal inspector Wilhelm Dusch: Own dialect poetry with the musical Contributors: Hippéli, Stamm, Jaspersen and others

From the 1996 Festschrift: That's where we're at
in the middle of the story, which begins on October 12, 1921. At the invitation of Dr. Adolf Stamm met
about 20 people <...>. Adolf Stamm spoke
in the first year about “Freedom of the Will…”.

There was also a musical evening.
They met in the Kraillinger Café Hacker.
The annual fee was 5 marks, Due to inflation,
at the end it was 100,000 marks.

   Program 1923-24

  • Privy Councilor Dr. A tribe: About papyrus research

  • Dr. W. Külbel: Home and hiking

  • Director R. Gabler: Laughter and its impact on life

  • Sculptor H. Horzetzki: Friedrich Hebbel in two lectures

  • Walburga Unger: Caesar Flaischlen

  • Privy Councilor Dr. A Stamm: Schopenhauer

  • Director Hermann Lehmann:
    The importance of the smallest living creatures

  • Dr. Eugen Stamm: Konstantin Frantz and federalism

  • Frieda Möderl: Recitation of poems by Fontane, Carl Friedrich Meyer and Liliencron

  • Musical evening with the following contributors:
    O. & K. Pippel, Hippéli, v. Berlepsch and others

Interior of Cafe Hacker anno domini 1928

   Program 1924-25

  • Captain retired D.V. Mandl:

  • Empress Elizabeth

  • Painter Otto Pippel:
    Sketch, study and picture

  • Chief Naval Construction Officer H. Hartmann:
    Travel pictures from the Far East

  • Director Hermann Lehmann:
    Relationships between stars and people

  • Director R. Gabler: Ghosts

  • Prof. A. Goldaté: Urfaust

  • Director W. Trillich: 
    'Color and organization

  • Therese Heinrich:
    Our solar system with its planets and its fixed star

  • Chief Naval Architect H. Hartmann: Art and crafts in Japan

  • Ernst von Wolzogen: From his own works

  • Renate Casella: J.J. Rousseau

   Program 1925-26

  • Walburga Unger: The Würmtal in geology and history

  • Major General out of duty Schupbbaum: Karl Stieler

  • Senior Postal Inspector W. Dusch:
    From his own writings

  • Privy Councilor Dr. A. Stamm:
    Graphic memory images in a practical demonstration

  • Church councilor Trenkle:
    Wilhelm Doignon, a little-noticed poet of the 19th century

  • Lieutenant Colonel out of service A. Gehre:
    On lonely watch in the high mountains

  • A. Fraunhofer: Beauty care throughout the centuries

  • Architect Putlitz: Our modern apartment and its facilities

  • Major out of service M. Casella: 
    Karl May and the adult German

  • Sculptor H. Horzetzki: Albrecht Dürer in three lectures

  • Music evening with the following Contributors: K.Pippel, Hippéli, Weikhardt and others.

   ​Program 1926-27

  • Lieutenant Colonel retired Bessel: Self-experience

  • A. Seidel: The resurrection of astrology

  • Secret act Dr. A. Stamm: The Demon, a philosophical conversation about the different world views in 2 evenings

  • Admiral (ret.) Schröder: England

  • Senior postal inspector W. Dusch: German dialects with several contributors

  • Captain retired V. Mandl; Franz Grillparzer

  • Colorful evening with the following participants: by Bessel, Buschmann, Zentz, Rosenbauer

   Program 1927-28

  • Director E Städler: Richard Dehmel with recitations by Ms. Städler

  • Privy Councilor Dr. A. Stamm: History of ancient Greek philosophy

  • Mayor off duty R. Kuth: Dramatic craftsmanship

  • Dr. E. Kimmerle: Sport and spirit

  • Sculptor H. Horzetzki: P. P. Rubens

  • Director Mandl: Nikolaus Lenau

  • Senior building officer H. Hartmann: Five years in Kiautschou

  • Lieutenant colonel out of service H. von Bessel: Count Strachwitz

  • Professor Dr. E. Dacqué: World ice theory

  • Major General out of service K. Schupbaum: The Old City of Munich

  • Dr. from Willmann: Cancer, ways to cure and prevent it

  • Dialect evening
    The Contributors are Städler, von Lüttichau, Schschlägerle, von Bessel and others

  • Music evening:
    The contributors are Siebenhüner, Roberts and others

   Programm 1928-29

  • Waldemar Bonsels: From his own works

  • Major General out of service von Aschoff: Historical and geographical highlights using postage stamps

  • Director E Städler: Nietzsche as a poet

  • Dr. Wittenstein: Weather science

  • Professor Dr. M. Dieckmann: Spark technology experimental lecture

  • Senior building officer H. Hartmann: Five years behind barbed wire

  • Lieutenant Colonel out of service A. Gehre: The conquest of the Alps

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki: Crumbs from Richard Wagner's abundance in two evenings

  • Dr. Fe-Yen-Lu: Confucianism

  • Lieutenant colonel out of service H. von Bessel: Modern poetry

  • O.v. Waldenfels: Caricatures from the war

  • Major General out of service K. Schupbaum: Agnes Miegel

  • Director Hermann Lehmann: Involuntary comedy, short lectures about Casella, Bullemer, Stamm, Engelmann and others

   Programm 1929-1930

  • Major General out of service K. Schupbaum: In memory of H. Löns

  • Renate Casella: Mrs. von Staël and her relationships with Germany

  • H. Weber: Lao Tzu

  • Ms. Toni Reigers: From her own writings

  • Privy Councilor von Seebach: German literature in Alsace

  • Director W. Trillih: Fresco painting

  • Dr. Leopold Weber: From his own works

  • Thomas Engelmann: Personal experiences from three continents

  • Woman from Aschoff: Ricarda Yikes

  • Captain retired Gotsch: Experiences in South Africa during the Boer War

  • Privy Councilor O. Skoniecki and Mr. von Tschurtschenthaler: Reading about Richard Wagner

  • Dr. H. Krapfenbauer: World travel experiences during war

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