Ludwig Winder: Letter to Carl Ehrenstein, 1939
Ludwig Winder: Letter to Carl Ehrenstein, 1939
If there is no war, then I could just as well stay in London for 14 days, but I don’t believe that there will be a peaceful solution for this crisis.
Letter from Ludwig Winder to Carl Ehrenstein, 1939
With the annexation of Bohemia in March 1939, the author Ludwig Winder fled Prague, like many others from the so-called "Prague Circle." He emigrated to England via Poland and Scandanavia. In the summer of 1939, Winder contacted the Viennese literary agent Carl Ehrenstein, the brother of the Expressionist artist Albert Ehrenstein. Winder wrote primarily handwritten letters to Ehrenstein, in order to inquire about publishing opportunities for his novels in the reality of an imploding Europe. His letters outlined his literary plans and ideas, and also described the complicated living conditions in exile, as the following letter shows.
Further reading:
Margarita Pazi: Fünf Autoren des Prager Kreises. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 1978
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