NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 698, sig. 110-4/549 Page 63 · 63 of 155
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 698, sig. 110-4549
English Translation
He repeatedly paid attention to the German theatres in Prague. Above all, it is to his credit that the budget was approved for the establishment of a German operetta. In his plans, he continued to build a permanent opera in Prague on the 16th of June. On the occasion of a state act to open the Rudolfinum, he announced the award of the cultural prize of the Reich Protector to three German artists. However, the intimate relationship connected him with sound art. His musical interest arose from his artistic predisposition, after all, he came from a well-known musical family from Halle. His special focus was on the German philharmonic orchestra. He played a special role in the design of the Prague Music Weeks in 1942, to which he gave a keynote speech: "Music is the creative language of musical and musical people as mediators of their inner life." On the eve of the attack on him, he attended a house music evening in the Waldsteinsaal, where his father's work was performed, performed by his former collaborators, a quartet from Halle. The music-filled world of the parents' house, from which Reinhard Heydrich's fighting life had begun, stands like this just a few days before his end of life. Only truly great people are able to develop a force that shapes the present and the future already in a short epoch of their work. The diversity of his duties, the clarity of his political view, but above all the unique impulse of his leader, justify us speaking of a political legacy of Reinhard Heydrich for Bohemia and Moravia, which in that short period of time- 40