STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2560, sig. 109-12/20

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- 2 - 3 the task of illustrating and depicting this bond between Bohemia and Moravia with the Empire and the tasks that these old empire countries have to fulfil in today's Great Germany and in the coming new Europe. Therefore, it traces the effects of this bond of fate in all areas, also in those of poetry and literature. The prize competition is now intended to win and encourage German poets and writers to deal with the problems identified. It is intended to encourage them to see the Bohemian-Moravian space again as a German space and to learn to shape it poetically. The competition is also intended to pave the way for young, capable authors. Finally, however, it is to be achieved that suitable and valuable stories and poems are available for the planned further expansion of the magazine. What does the prize look like? In order to achieve these broad goals, an annual poet's prize of the magazine üBöhmen and Moravia" in the amount of RM 5 ooo.-- is exposed. He defends himself as follows: Narrator's prize RM 4 000.-- SeeS 1st Prize RM 1 200.--2nd Prize RR 1 000..--3rd Prize RRM 800.--4th Prize Rm 500.--5th Prize rm 500th--- Lyric prize: RM 1000.--1st Prize rM 400.- 2nd PrizeRM 300.- 3rd Prize r m 300. - The judges are composed of the following: Chair: State Secretary SS Group leader Karl Hermann Frank, as editor of the magazine "Böhmen und Mähren" Members: Hans Friedrich Blunxk Bruno Brehm Franz Ceppa Karl Freiherr v.Gregory,Prague Head of the Cultural Policy Affairs Group at the Reichsprotektor, Friedrich Heiss,Berlin,Head of Main Writing