Hannah Höch (fan club)

Status on my Hannah H. Birthday Box stuff: spent the weekend creating the art pieces, and I’m almost finished with addressing the envelopes. I’ll be heading to the post office tomorrow. Once everything’s in the mail I’ll concentrate on the B-Day box! Super fun project!

Meanwhile Hannah Höch b-day mail art arrived from Katerina and Rosalie. Thank you!

Happy to see Hannah arrived in Amstelveen, Hleen xxx

Two more Hannah Hoch B-d have arrived in Greece, many thanks to Carmen Kennedy and Charlotte Geister:

Heleen, also unofficial participant is Erni in Hamburg, Germany,

he knows all about Kurt Schwitters and Hanna who became "Hannah" :-)

Kurt suggested to her to add the extra "H" to read her name

forward and backward!

"Ja - nobody knows whether Kurt and Hannah had been lovers or just good friends or pals. It's known that she liked and respected him muchly and he liked women though being married...." from Erni.

I sent him a Hannah Hoch b-d card, too"

Just off to the post with all but one of the remaining presents.

The last one will go next Monday.

A big sigh of relief that it is all done - except for latecomers and surprises - and now I will turn my attention to getting a box and then some sort of #list of contributors' for everyone - just to finish things off . . .

Received gifts from Mary Anne, the Bennetts, Cascadia, and Rosalie. I thought I could wait until November 1 to open. As you can tell, that did not happen. Ha! Really loving this project. 

Everything posted.

Confirmation from Visual Mom - it is Noriko not Nioriko.

Thank you for adding Erni, Katerina. Concerning Kurt, I read in some biography that it wasn't Kurt Schwitters but Raoul Hausman who suggested to add a second -h to Hanna..?

I could do with an address for Erni; just to keep the list of contributors up to date . . .

Katerina, is the address on the envelope which you have posted in the group correct for Ernie?

Mail art for Hannah Höch B-Day Box are coming in - so far from Carmen K., Cascadia Artport and MomKat. Thanks so much. Won’t open until November. 

Mailed H.H. m-a to Erin Bär this morning.

Oops....Erni Bär! 

Two more "presents " arrived in Greece today, shall be opening all on Friday.

And we on this side of the Big Pond get to do that early, don't we ? :-)

Thanks to Mary Anne and to C.Merhl Bennett,

...can't wait to see what birthday surprises are inside!

My first Hannah Höch birthday card arrived yesterday from Katerina. Yippee. But that's it. Have any of you recieved the cards I sent yet ?

It's been a while. 2 weeks in guessing.

I’ve sent out gifts to everyone on the list including Erni. Cascadia, I mailed yours on October 9 and Judi, I mailed yours on October 21. I haven’t received anything from you yet. I did scan everything that I sent out, so if someone doesn’t get something from me I will be happy to send you a photo. I also plan on posting photos of everything received and sent...eventually. 

dear hannahs my contributions will be sent today from germany, you waited 130 years for this, so please be patiented ;-) cheers kurt

We will celebrate Hannah's birthday all November month long! Whenever the mail art arrives...it arrives :-)

Two came today and are placed in the Birthday Box...waiting for grand opening tomorrow..Thank you, Judi and Rosalie!

and today: Happy Halloween!

Can someone please post Erni's address?

Greetings to the Fan Club.  I came to this group and this project a little late (2 days ago) after being away on a long trip.  I got confused, having not read all the way back to the beginning to see that each person would have their own box, rather than a virtual box, where all of the work would be shared electronically.  Oops.  

I am finishing a HH bd piece that cannot be made multiple (I am also very back logged with other mail and stuff due to being gone). I could photocopy the work and send each person a copy, but rather than all of this, I will post mine here when it is complete to “share”  with all of you.  Thanks for making me aware of HH and her work!  Maybe next time I will get with the program sooner.  

I’m excited to see all of your work, and hope it will be posted here.

Cheers, Debra

Hannah's bday mail today..!

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday . . .

I have found a sort of box - an A4 affair covered in black velvet - but haven't the means of a photo at the moment so I have attempted a scan.  Not everything is visible but it gives an idea.  Nine contributions have arrived so far - maybe more in the coming days.  It should make for quite a show when I finalise everything the way it works best. A quantity of time is required and a modicum of thought . . .

Thanks to everyone for making this all a big success . . . we should be proud of ourselves.  Now . . . what next?

Happy Birthday, Hannah Hoch! My original 12 went out around Oct 15. My last six will go out today.  My envelope from Hazel Jones had been torn open & arrived inside a small US Postal 'Apology' bag. This is ironic because her envelope says "Please Advise Fate".  Hopefully everything is still inside. Thanks for all of the lovely work! It makes for a very Happy Hannah Hoch Birthday indeed.

Hi Rosalie you lucky thing you - It is always good when the postal authorities join in with the fun!  Hazel always likes to re-use old envelopes and they are worth their weight in gold even if they suffer in transit (hers to me was half open too).

On the other hand your mail to me arrived safe and sound and is now happily part of the throng . . .

oops...just vanished?this comment went up-in-the-air?

"Happy birthday to Hannah! And many thanks for all the nice "presents" in my Birthday Box (a recycled box from my MacAir :-)

There are "7" so far, but waiting patiently for more in future mail deliveries, overflowing with goodies..."

Many thanks for all the "presents", tiny ones, too:

see the birthday blogs:

• Hannah Höch Happy Birthday, 1st November, #4,5,6,7 "presents".

• Hannah Höch Happy Birthday, 1st November, #1,2,3 "presents".

Thanks, Mary Anne. Hazel's was fun to see inside the Post Office bag which had a big "We Care" sign on it! Here's a nice photo of Hannah H. in her studio in 1976 to help us celebrate.

Happy Birthday Hannah Hoch! Wow! This project was so much fun. Thanks to everyone. Have received so many beautiful works dedicated to Hannah and look forward to more. I want to share each gift in detail later. Here are the gifts received so far:

Happy Birthday! 
So delightful to see all received mail - thank you so much! - and to see your creatieve boxes!

Please have a little more patience concerning my mail. I am waiting for one ‘ingredient’ which I hope that will be delivered in one or two weeks and I will send out my mail then asap.

GIPHY for Hannah Höch

(it's still California time, so Nov. 1st all souls)

Waiting for the box to get ready and the rest to come...

Happy and creative bday to all of us Hannah..! 

I just finished creating three more  HHBCards. That covers everyone on the list of participants. They will go out in the mail on Monday. Thanks everybody. This has been great fun and a bit surreal. ♤♡♢♧ 

Hello birthday party! Thanks so much to all whose cards and other things I have received. Thanks Bibiana for Hannah with her birthday cake!! I love it, it fits wonderfully. My box is still in working process, I will add a photo when it is finished! Happy birthday to everyone!

Charlotte

A German postage stamp for Hannah in 2015,

it was sent to me back in 2015! Found :-)

The Hannah stamp was sent from Heleen with an info sheet, too,

see the 2015 blog:

 Heleen and Hannah Hoch with an ATC Birdie

That's a wonderful H.H. stamp & fact sheet! Also, I was debating sending one of my HH packets to myself to get a postmark on it, but now that W.M. is returning mine I'll get my wish without the effort. It's almost like a performance piece - using someone else to send your own mail art to yourself, only without the surprise when you open it! And of course, the surprise is more than half the fun.

That's a real beauty of a box, Bibiana!

And two more Hannah gifts came in today's mail,

Thanks to Jayne Lyons:

well, the second one is really mine, it was returned-to-sender...

so now i have one of mine in-the-box!

Look closely , upper right ,

and see that Jayne Lyons' envelope

has that German postage stamp, too:

Well, I was feeling quite pleased with myself, having found a much better box for my birthday stuff, but now I see the photos of Bibiana's wonderful creation. I am very envious of it but glad to think one of my pieces maybe inside it.  If we were giving out prizes I would vote for her . . . so far.  Who knows there may be more wonders to come.

I must go back to my feeble effort and DO BETTER . . .

I agree with Mary Anne. Bibiana’s box is truly a work of art. I am loving all these gifts of creativity. Since I posted the content of my box, I have received a few more beauties from Judi and a bonus gift from Mary Anne because she thought the first gift was lost. Lucky me!

A lovely altered postcard from Judi. 

A love letter from Kurt to Hannah from Mary Anne:

Here is the box I made from the box which was used to ship me a used copy of “cut with the kitchen knife”:

Another marvellous box!  I am feeling most inadequate but never mind; I have plans afoot!

The new box I found tonight is nearly square - 9 inches x 10 inches - and 2 inches deep so lots of space and everything looks much better within the new proportions.  The outside is a flat black but with a bit of effort I should be able to make it a little less than a funeral!

Bibianas box is really marvellous, but where did she get such a wonderful fitting cigar case? In Germany : no chance, but it is very good with its measures. I am working on quite another solution...

Jayne and  Carmen, your photomontage birthday cards arrived today. Hannah would be proud of you both.♤♡♢♧    ♡♡

Oh, yes, Bibiana's Birthday box is super nice!

And so is her mail art that arrived today, plus

the fun pin! many thanks xxx

I will add and return the HH Kit she enclosed, too :-)

Greetings to the HH Fan Club.  Even tho I missed the deadline I made this and wanted to share with the group.

It has been a real pleasure to see what everyone made and has created for their boxes.  Please keep posting!

Mary Anne, this was a great idea, conceiving of this project.  I am amazed at how something like this can be done in such a short amount of time.

Cheers to everyone involved.  Fabulous work need!  Debra

Indeed, not need.

(the font is so small when I am posting a photo that I can hardly read it.  Maybe a better way is to post the photo alone, and then post a comment separately so it can be read easily.  (???)

Wow, Debra! I love what you made...beautiful!