Just before leaving Berlin Rabindranath wrote to Andrews on 4th June, 1921;
" I saw "Post Office" acted in Berlin Theatre. The girl who took the part of Amal was delightful in her acting and altogether the whole thing was a success. But it was a different interpretation from that of ours in our own acting in Vichitra. I had been trying to define the difference in my mind, when Dr. Otto of Margburg University, who was among the audience, hit upon it. He said that the German interpretation was suggestive of a fairy story, full of elusive beauty, whereas the inner significance of this play is spiritual."
Rabindranath, Rathindranath, and Bomanji left Berlin by train to Munich on 4th June. The compartment, boarded by them, was joined to another train. The train reached Munich one hour late of the scheduled time.The publisher Kurt Wolff greeted them and took them to the Hotel Continental.
On 7 June Rabindranath, at 8 pm in the Auditorium Hall of Munich University, read the essay "The message of the East" and recited some his poems in Bengali and English and some slokas in Sanskrit.
He distributed the portion of the profit accrued by selling his books in German Translation to the poor students of Munich.
They left Munich and started for Frank Furt on 8th June.
They were greeted by Grand Duke of Hesse when they arrived in Frankfurt in the morning, who took them to the new palace Neues Palis of Darmstatt .
Keyserling wrote on 27th April, " The Grand duke of Hesse .... desires me to tell you that he hopes you will accept to be his guest, with members of your family that accompanying at his palace here,'
The same thing was repeated in the letter dated 7th May.
In the evening Prof Hermann Jacobi met Rabindranath they had discussions on Indian prosody.The third son of Keyserling Prince Augustus Wilhelm, Sister of Keyserling and his nephews met in a lunch with Rabindranath. They stayed in Darmstatt for few days.
It was declared officially to observe "Tagore Week" from this day. Keyserling was the main co-ordinator of this programme. He also acted as an interpretor.
On everyday at 10.30 am in the morning and at 3 pm he had to come to the top of the stairs in the garden outside the palace and people were to assemble there in front of him. No formal lecture was arranged here. Different persons from audience would ask him different questions as they liked and he had to reply them in English.Keyserling would translate those in German.In the evening he recited some of the translation from his writings in English and then read the Bengali version of those poems in the City Hall before a huge gathering.Keyserling at first introduced him before the audience and then transated the verses in German.Lastly Rabindranath read some hymns from the Vedas.The papers expressed mixed reactions about this programme.
In the dinner the famous music director Ballin was present.and they had attractive discussions on music.
On 11 th June, the morning assembly was held as usual and in the evening he discussed orally the subject of the essay, "East and West". At the dinner many persons came to be introduced vwith Rabindranath.
On 12th June in the morning the gathering was large, in comparison with other days,On 13th after lunch Rabindranath went to see the Frakfurt University.
On 14th June, he went to the Club of the workers of Darmstart.
He then came to Vienna and stayed there for two days After that he came to Paris via Prague.
He started fror India from Paris on 1st July and boarded the ship "Morea" on 2nd June
Incidenatally, Subhas Chandra Basu after completing his Tripos and Civil Service examination securing 4th position in order of merit was coming back to India in the same ship..
" I saw "Post Office" acted in Berlin Theatre. The girl who took the part of Amal was delightful in her acting and altogether the whole thing was a success. But it was a different interpretation from that of ours in our own acting in Vichitra. I had been trying to define the difference in my mind, when Dr. Otto of Margburg University, who was among the audience, hit upon it. He said that the German interpretation was suggestive of a fairy story, full of elusive beauty, whereas the inner significance of this play is spiritual."
On 7 June Rabindranath, at 8 pm in the Auditorium Hall of Munich University, read the essay "The message of the East" and recited some his poems in Bengali and English and some slokas in Sanskrit.
He distributed the portion of the profit accrued by selling his books in German Translation to the poor students of Munich.
They left Munich and started for Frank Furt on 8th June.
They were greeted by Grand Duke of Hesse when they arrived in Frankfurt in the morning, who took them to the new palace Neues Palis of Darmstatt .
Keyserling wrote on 27th April, " The Grand duke of Hesse .... desires me to tell you that he hopes you will accept to be his guest, with members of your family that accompanying at his palace here,'
The same thing was repeated in the letter dated 7th May.
In the evening Prof Hermann Jacobi met Rabindranath they had discussions on Indian prosody.The third son of Keyserling Prince Augustus Wilhelm, Sister of Keyserling and his nephews met in a lunch with Rabindranath. They stayed in Darmstatt for few days.
It was declared officially to observe "Tagore Week" from this day. Keyserling was the main co-ordinator of this programme. He also acted as an interpretor.
On everyday at 10.30 am in the morning and at 3 pm he had to come to the top of the stairs in the garden outside the palace and people were to assemble there in front of him. No formal lecture was arranged here. Different persons from audience would ask him different questions as they liked and he had to reply them in English.Keyserling would translate those in German.In the evening he recited some of the translation from his writings in English and then read the Bengali version of those poems in the City Hall before a huge gathering.Keyserling at first introduced him before the audience and then transated the verses in German.Lastly Rabindranath read some hymns from the Vedas.The papers expressed mixed reactions about this programme.
In the dinner the famous music director Ballin was present.and they had attractive discussions on music.
On 11 th June, the morning assembly was held as usual and in the evening he discussed orally the subject of the essay, "East and West". At the dinner many persons came to be introduced vwith Rabindranath.
On 12th June in the morning the gathering was large, in comparison with other days,On 13th after lunch Rabindranath went to see the Frakfurt University.
On 14th June, he went to the Club of the workers of Darmstart.
He then came to Vienna and stayed there for two days After that he came to Paris via Prague.
He started fror India from Paris on 1st July and boarded the ship "Morea" on 2nd June
Incidenatally, Subhas Chandra Basu after completing his Tripos and Civil Service examination securing 4th position in order of merit was coming back to India in the same ship..
