English Translation

( - 3 - Public as well as Prague writing circles with the case of Brikcius. In general, it is not understood how precisely this as Czech cultural representative could be considered with the national prize. Thus, it was spread in NG circles, that it is only now clear why Brikcius received the prize, which apparently should only represent an advance for his future career. In press circles, a written summary of the history of Brikcius, which is available in the SD guide section, but which is very polemic, has been produced. After all, the personality of the Brikcius is so questionable that a closer approach seems justified: since 1919, Brikcius has been listed in the police files as a vagrant and an asocial element. He was temporarily housed in an asylum in 1919, 1920 and 1926. After his release, he travelled to Europe, Abyssinia, Arabia, India and Africa. During this period he harassed the Czech embassies, to whom he lured out various sums of money and said several times that he had lost his personnel papers. In India he was arrested in 1927 for suspicion of espionage by the English police The police are listed as professions: Pflegling, import agent, bank official, film actor, editor and principal editor. He was found unfit when he was forced to become a former Czech military officer. Although several criminal proceedings were pending against Brikcius at the Czech District Court, there has not been a conviction so far. The questionability of the person of Brikkius speaks above all of the fact that in the thirties he abandoned his evangelical confessional affiliation to the Islamic faith of the Hanefitic rite. He left his former first name Alois and now called himself Mohammed Abdullah. Brikcius succeeded very quickly in becoming chairman of the Prague community, in which function he according to the documents of the state police station Prague