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33 Wilhelm Srb-Schlossbauer, Karlovy Vary, 26.11.1940. Karlovysbad V. Wallensteinstr. 16. Düco des Staatssekcetärs b.n Reichspeotek.o in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 29.NOV.1940 Wn 1n - Tgb. Nr.: Seat Karl Hermann F U P ra R V - eseJet M Be U2 ES - S 8.8027001 EOE Dear Secretary of State! TEES CE BOU T1 gLOs I tried to reach a personal interview with you a short time ago. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to speak with you and I was referred to by your adjudant to ask you for an interview or to make my requests. However, it is obvious that some things are discussed better than written. It's the following; I'm getting my housing too tight here in Karlovy Vary! I no longer have a room to carry out a larger work and, above all, it is the mental tightness of Karlový Vary's shelters, which forces me to look elsewhere around an artistic sphere of action. Berlin does not seem to me to be the appropriate ground where achievements could flourish for me. In other cities of the Old Kingdom I am foreign and, obeying an inner instinct, I want to settle in Prague for good, where I had previously been subject to my studies and where I was already able to find the most extensive estimate by my previous activity. The question of the studio seems to me to be a happy solution insofar as the magistrate of the city of Prague gives me the opportunity to rent a villa with a suitable working space for a relatively reasonable amount. I want to move to Prague in the secure production that Prague will once again be this spiritual center for us Sudeten Germans, which it used to be. I go further in my view by believing that the SudetenGerman artist in Prague should be looking for his sphere of influence, and if, as it seems, the German Prague is doing everything in its turn in order to be the center of spiritual interest again, it is obvious, by the way, that it is also benevolent for the settlement of competent German artists. ./. d.d.0 No/1. St. S.4 d 57